Shane Harris to Join <em>The Atlantic</em> as a Staff Writer

The Atlantic has hired Shane Harris as a staff writer to cover national security and intelligence, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today. Shane has been at The Washington Post since 2018, and will join The Atlantic in October.

Below is the staff announcement from Jeffrey Goldberg:

Some exciting news to start off the week: Shane Harris, one of the country's most outstanding intelligence and national security reporters, will be joining us as a staff writer this fall. The addition of Shane to our already-excellent team means that we will be able to go even deeper on a set of issues that is hugely important for The Atlantic and its readers.

Shane comes to us from The Washington Post, which he joined in 2018. At the Post, he did excellent work on a huge range of stories, from January 6 (he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the attack on the Capitol); the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; and the Discord leaks. Many of you are familiar with his work on Ukraine issues, including investigations of the Nord Stream pipeline explosion. And he was the lead writer on an in-depth narrative about the run-up to the Russian invasion.

Shane is the author of two books, The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State and @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex. Prior to joining the Post, Shane wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, and Washingtonian Magazine.

Recent editorial staff to have joined The Atlantic are Jen Balderama, Serena Dai, and Allegra Frank, all senior editors for Culture; Ali Breland, as a staff writer covering extremism; and Boris Kachka as senior editor for Books. Several Atlantic editors have also moved to staff writers in the past few months: Julie Beck, Gal Beckerman, Ellen Cushing, and Matteo Wong.

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