Get to know our new Editor Sam Jacobs

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Meet our Editor. In April 2023, Sam Jacobs was named Editor in Chief of TIME. Sam is the youngest editor to lead TIME since co-founder Henry Luce, and has worked at TIME for more than 10 years. Get to know him—and learn more about his plans for the future—in the following interview. Our work should help everyone it reaches live better, healthier, more informed lives. I hope TIME does that for you.   Meet Sam Jacobs, Editor in Chief of TIME   @sampjacobs How did you get your start in journalism? I’ve wanted to be a journalist for as long as I can remember. I grew up reading the Boston Globe and was especially interested in the Sports section. At that time, the paper had an incredible group of columnists writing for it—Peter Gammons, Will McDonugh, Jackie McMullen, Bob Ryan, and on and on. They were my gateway into journalism, which led me to work on my high school and college newspapers. I graduated college without a job but eventually found a full time position at The Daily Beast, where my predecessor as TIME Editor in Chief, Edward Felsenthal hired me. Fast forward a few years and I’m lucky enough to be sharing TIME with you every day. Which TIME story are you most proud of? TIME’s journalists do the impossible. We’ve launched thousands of drones into the sky to mimic the magazine’s red borders. We’ve covered a pandemic from the outbreak in Wuhan, China, to the inside of a New York hospital as its nurses and doctors battled the coronavirus. We’ve chronicled the impact of climate change from the Arctic to the mangroves of Pakistan. We are so fortunate to be able to find new ways to tell stories so that we can provide you with trusted guidance and a better understanding of the people who are shaping our world. What still surprises you about TIME? I still get surprised by the ways that our coverage can change the way people see themselves. There’s a clip of broadcaster Gayle King seeing herself on one of our TIME 100 covers. I later talked with her about it. She is at the top of her profession and yet she was still stunned. I regularly run into people who have stories about how it was through TIME that they learned English or came to better understand the world. One of my favorite stories is about a frontline worker we wrote about during the pandemic. After reading our story with her partner and seeing the role they play for each other described in TIME, they decided to get married. They sent us a picture from their wedding day. It is extraordinary to have such a personal and powerful relationship with the people we cover and the people we reach.     What’s your favorite TIME cover? Really hard to pick! My current favorite is our recent cover of pop superstar Bad Bunny, who appeared on TIME’s first all-Spanish language cover. The response was incredible. The first cover story I edited was a profile of Taylor Swift with a cover photograph by Martin Schoeller, so that will always be a special one to me. My favorite since I’ve been at TIME is a cover made by the artist JR during the pandemic. We work with amazing artists at TIME, and among the most innovative and inspiring is JR. When we asked JR to come up with a work that created a feeling of hope during the darkest days of the pandemic, he delivered.   What are you reading and watching right now? As I write this we are days away from the final episode of Succession. That is one show that I’m very sorry to see end. As for reading, I do have a serious book-buying habit. I like reading biography, memoir, and history about culture and the people who make what we read, watch, and consume. I’m ready to dive into Henry Grunwald’s One Man’s America, the autobiography of a boy who fled Nazi-occupied Austria to become one of TIME’s most successful editors. What do you read every morning? First let me say, TIME has a dozen terrific newsletters. Sign up and start your day with one. Outside of TIME, I try to read as much as I can and whatever people are talking about, especially newsletters that cover the worlds of media and politics. (I started my career as a political reporter.) I am a big magazine reader and subscribe to at least 12 different magazines, probably more. My morning commute is usually spent trying to catch up on those. What do you do to relax? I am a committed city runner. I love getting the chance to see parts of New York by running through them. What’s the most interesting place you’ve traveled for work? TIME now does an annual event in Dubai, the TIME100 Impact Awards. I’m looking forward to traveling to other TIME100 events later this year. Before joining TIME, I was a national political correspondent for Reuters. That job let me travel all over the United States, talking to candidates and voters. What’s your favorite part about working at TIME? Easy! The people. There truly is no better place to work than a newsroom. Each day I get to spend time with passionate and empathetic people who are curious about the world and the people around them. That is what has kept me at TIME for 10 years across a decade of change and the transformation of our company. What’s the most important part of TIME’s mission? The one world that has kept coming to mind since I became editor in April 2023 is service. TIME should serve its readers and serve the world. We should be useful. Our work should help everyone it reaches live better, healthier, more informed lives. I hope TIME does that for you.     The world deserves an editorial platform that brings people together, provides community and a sense of shared purpose. The need for trusted journalism from TIME has never been greater. See our subscription options here to get started.

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