‘The Nation’ Has a New President!

‘The Nation’ Has a New President!

Erin O’Mara has a proven ability to balance financial concerns with the mission-based priorities that define our magazine.

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Contact: Caitlin Graf, The Nation, press [at] thenation.com, 212-209-5400

We’re pleased to announce that Erin O’Mara has joined The Nation as our new president. Erin brings to the role a great breadth and depth of experience in print and digital publishing, most recently in leading the consulting firm Shain+Oringer, where she placed a particular emphasis on audience development and strategic planning for titles at Johnson Publishing, Taunton Press, Lonely Planet, and other companies.

Erin has a comprehensive understanding of the pressures facing publishing and independent journalism, and a proven ability to balance financial concerns with the mission-based priorities that define an enterprise as unique as The Nation. She shares our deep commitment to developing innovative business avenues that will sustain and enhance The Nation’s mission, its tireless advocacy of progressive ideals, and its fearless investigative journalism. We are excited to have her join us at this pivotal time. Welcome, Erin!

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Over the past year you’ve read Nation writers like Elie Mystal, Kaveh Akbar, John Nichols, Joan Walsh, Bryce Covert, Dave Zirin, Jeet Heer, Michael T. Klare, Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Gregg Gonsalves, and Sasha Abramsky take on the Trump family’s corruption, set the record straight about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s catastrophic Make America Healthy Again movement, survey the fallout and human cost of the DOGE wrecking ball, anticipate the Supreme Court’s dangerous antidemocratic rulings, and amplify successful tactics of resistance on the streets and in Congress.

We publish these stories because when members of our communities are being abducted, household debt is climbing, and AI data centers are causing water and electricity shortages, we have a duty as journalists to do all we can to inform the public.

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With your support, our team will publish major stories that the president and his allies won’t want you to read. We’ll cover the emerging military-tech industrial complex and matters of war, peace, and surveillance, as well as the affordability crisis, hunger, housing, healthcare, the environment, attacks on reproductive rights, and much more. At the same time, we’ll imagine alternatives to Trumpian rule and uplift efforts to create a better world, here and now. 

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Onward,

Katrina vanden Heuvel 

Editor and publisher, The Nation

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