Alexis Gelber
A longtime top editor at Newsweek, Alexis Gelber supervised award-winning coverage of politics, social issues and international news as the magazine's National Affairs Editor, Assistant Managing Editor, and as the Managing Editor of Newsweek International. As Director of Special Projects from 2001 to 2008, she created special issues and new entrepreneurial projects, among them "Health for Life"—a quarterly series with Harvard Medical School—and "Leadership for the 21st Century," which included cover stories and conferences about science and technology competitiveness, the global environmental challenge, and the magazine's signature Women and Leadership issues and conferences, featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Today Show.
In 2004 and 2008 Gelber edited Newsweek's Special Presidential Election project, a behind-the-scenes account of the election campaigns. Both were published as books by PublicAffairs, and the 2004 election project won a National Magazine Award for single topic issue.
In 2009, Gelber became Books Editor of The Daily Beast, launching the site's section of book reviews and excerpts, author interviews, and photo galleries. In Spring 2011, she was a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Policy, where she published a research paper on women politicians and social media, “Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network.”
Gelber is a former president of the Overseas Press Club of America. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she served as Chair of the school's Alumni Board.