Vann R. Newkirk II

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Senior Editor at The Atlantic

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Vann R. Newkirk II Biography

Vann R. Newkirk II is a senior editor at The Atlantic who has edited award-winning features and essays for the print magazine and its digital site. For years, Newkirk has covered voting rights, democracy, and environmental justice, with a focus on how race and class shape the country's and the world's fundamental structures.

He is the host and co-creator of the podcasts "Floodlines, a narrative about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and "Holy Week," about how technology has altered our relationship to reality. He also co-edited the 2018 KING special issue of The Atlantic on the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr, and the 2024 December issue, “To Reconstruct The Nation,” about the enduring legacy of Reconstruction. That issue was a finalist for the 2023 National Magazine Award for single-topic issue.

Newkirk is a 2022 Andrew Carnegie fellow, and was a 2020 James Beard Award Finalist, a 2020 11th Hour Fellow at New America, and a 2018 recipient of the American Society of Magazine Editors's ASME Next Award. In 2021, he received the Peabody Award for "Floodlines." Newkirk's reporting inspired the documentary film "Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,' on which Newkirk was a consulting producer. In 2023, that film won The Outstanding Research: Documentary Emmy.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/30/2024.

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