Top (from left): Marcus, Adler-Bell, Battan, Bennett. Bottom: Hughes, Moscatello, Calderone, Rosenberg.
Photo: James Emmerman (Hughes)
New York editor-in-chief David Haskell announced today that Ezra Marcus has joined the magazine’s staff as a features writer, and Sam Adler-Bell, Carrie Battan, Jessica Bennett, Jazmine Hughes, and Caitlin Moscatello are now contributing writers at the award-winning magazine. Additionally, Michael Calderone is joining as deputy editor of the magazine’s Intelligencer vertical, and Jacob Rosenberg joined as a features editor. Their work will span a broad range of topic areas, from politics to culture to crime.
“I’m very excited that Ezra is now on staff, and that Sam, Carrie, Jessica, Jazmine, and Caitlin are joining us as contributors,” said Haskell. “Each has already written memorably in our pages, publishing sharp columns, profiles, and features that are exactly the kind of journalism our readers expect from us. We can’t wait to publish a lot more. And it’s a delight to welcome Michael to Intelligencer and Jacob to our team of features editors—two excellent editors who will help us accelerate our coverage of news and politics in this dizzying time.”
Ezra Marcus is an investigative reporter focusing on crime and culture. He has written extensively for New York, including a cover story on a cult at Sarah Lawrence College that prompted a federal investigation of the ringleader Larry Ray and ultimately his conviction on federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and extortion. Marcus also wrote about a scandal at the L.A. restaurant Horses and crypto crimes in a Soho townhouse.
Sam Adler-Bell has been writing about politics and ideas for over a decade and has contributed to New York since 2022. His column “Free Country” quickly became essential reading, with analysis both timely and prescient, cutting through hypocrisy and displaying genuine interest in understanding the human impulses animating partisan politics. He co-hosts Know Your Enemy, a podcast about the history of right-wing politics in America.
As a contributor, Carrie Battan will write a mix of features, profiles, and columns with a focus on arts, culture, and business. Her recent work for New York has included a deeply reported look at the rise of Lauren Sánchez in the lead-up to the Bezos nuptials, a profile of the rising alt-pop star Audrey Hobert, and a feature about the tensions between New York City nannies and their employers. She was previously a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she wrote pop-music columns and reported on culture broadly. Her first book, an oral history of the television show Survivor called The Tribe Has Spoken, will be out in 2027.
Jessica Bennett’s recent pieces for New York have included an unforgettable profile of the publicist Peggy Siegal in the wake of the Epstein files’ release, a cover story on Wendy Williams’s fight to be freed from conservatorship, and an audit of the first-ever course on “heterosexual studies.” She previously spent a decade as a writer and editor at the New York Times, including a stint as the paper’s first and only gender editor. She teaches journalism at NYU and is the author of two books.
Jazmine Hughes will focus on profiles, culture coverage, and New York City politics. Hughes, a recipient of two National Magazine Awards, had contributed to the magazine as an intern beginning in 2011, covering the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State and the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, The New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and other publications. She lives between New York and Mexico.
Caitlin Moscatello contributes as a features writer, and her previous work for New York includes deep dives into the surge of women being diagnosed with ADHD, a puzzling new eating disorder in children, how a famous YouTuber landed behind bars for child abuse, and the murky world of high-priced college consultants. She is co-executive producer of the HBO documentary series An Update on Our Family, based on her New York feature about family vloggers, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She’s also the author of See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics. A National Magazine Award finalist, she’s had her work appear in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, and Time, among other publications.
Michael Calderone starts May 4 as deputy editor of the magazine’s Intelligencer vertical, which covers news, politics, and business. He will work with Intelligencer editor Jebediah Reed to set the site’s direction and closely with the site’s team of reporters and opinion writers. Calderone has covered the collision of media, politics, and power as a reporter and editor. He previously served as editor of Vanity Fair’s The Hive and media editor at TheWrap and has reported on the industry for Politico, HuffPost, and the New York Observer. He has also taught reporting and media criticism at Princeton University and New York University.
Jacob Rosenberg was hired by the magazine as a features editor in March, with a focus on news, politics, and narrative and investigative features. He comes from Mother Jones, where he worked across the magazine, on everything from print features to daily blogs. Last year, he guided an award-winning series of articles on the removal of Venezuelans living in the United States to a gulag-like prison in El Salvador. He has edited a wide range of features, including ones on bad bosses and “Mar-a-Lago face.” Before Mother Jones, he worked at an alt-weekly in Arkansas.
New York Magazine was recently honored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) with ten National Magazine Award nominations, twice as many as any other publication, including General Excellence (News, Sports, and Entertainment) for the 11th consecutive year. The magazine also received a George Polk Award in Photojournalism for Stephanie Keith’s work inside 26 Federal Plaza.