Alexis Gelber

Alexis Gelber is Editor in Chief of Straus News-Manhattan, supervising the newspaper group’s eight neighborhood papers and affiliated websites in New York City. An award-winning journalist, Gelber was a longtime top editor at Newsweek, and the founding books editor of The Daily Beast. She has been an adjunct professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute since 2010.  She has also taught and hosted a lecture series on innovations in international journalism at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.