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Elijah Wolfson

Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor. He is currently an editor at The Los Angeles Times, where he manages the environment, health and science team. Previously, he was an editorial director at Time, an editor at Quartz, and a senior editor at Newsweek. He has primarily covered science, health, technology and culture. Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, Vice, and the Huffington Post, and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News, NPR and other media outlets.

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Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor.1 He is currently an editor at The Los Angeles Times, where he manages the environment, health and science team. Previously, he was an editorial director at Time,2 an editor at Quartz,345 and a senior editor at Newsweek.6 He has primarily covered science, health, technology and culture.789 Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic,1011 Al Jazeera America,1213 Vice,14 and the Huffington Post,1516 and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News,17 NPR and other media outlets.18

Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.192021 He is the son of Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson a psychotherapist, and of the scholar Elliot Wolfson. In 2013, he married the writer and painter Jas Johl, his former co-editor at The Cal Literature and Arts Magazine at Berkeley. The pair separated in 2018; they remain artistic collaborators.

In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.22 In 2015, he was awarded an International Reporting Project Fellowship,23 and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground.24 In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship25 and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries.26

In 2016, his Newsweek cover story27 investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York.2829 The story sparked protests.30313233

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