Samuel Posin Jacobs is an American journalist. In April 2023, he was named editor-in-chief of Time magazine, the youngest since Henry Luce, the magazine's co-founder.[1]
Samuel Jacobs | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Editor-in-chief of Time |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Harvard University |
Biography
In 2009, Jacobs graduated from Harvard University,[2] where he studied history.[3] The title of his thesis was Walter Weyl and the Progressive Mind: The Promise and Problems of the New Democracy.[4][5] He was associate managing editor of The Harvard Crimson.[6] Jacobs attended The Roxbury Latin School.
Before coming to Time in 2013, he covered politics for The Daily Beast,[7][8] edited Newsweek's front of the book section, and was a U.S. campaign correspondent for Reuters.[9][10][3]
Jacobs was Time's senior editor and was promoted in 2014 to assistant managing editor.[3] In 2016, he was promoted to executive editor of Time Digital.[11] He was deputy editor from 2019 until being named editor-in-chief in 2023.[12][13][14]