Elijah Wolfson

{{short description|American writer and editor}}

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Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor.{{cite web|url=https://www.aspenideas.org/speaker/elijah-wolfson|title=Elijah Wolfson - Aspen Ideas Festival|website=Aspen Ideas Festival|accessdate=19 August 2017}} He is currently an editorial director at Time primarily covering health and science.{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/6050783/time-announces-changes-to-editorial-leadership-structure/ |title=Time Announces Changes to Editorial Leadership Structure To Further Subscriptions and Digital Transformation |magazine=Time |date=May 24, 2021}} Previously, he was an editor at Quartz.{{Cite web|title=Elijah Wolfson — Quartz|url=https://qz.com/author/elijahqz/|access-date=2017-04-17|website=Quartz|language=en-US}}{{cite web|title=From White House Intern to Quartz Photo Editor|url=http://www.adweek.com/digital/quartz-johnny-simon-georgia-frances-king-sari-zeidler/|accessdate=19 August 2017|website=Adweek}}{{cite web|date=19 July 2016|title=Movement at Quartz - Cision|url=http://www.cision.com/us/2016/07/movement-at-quartz/|accessdate=19 August 2017|website=Cision}} and before that served as senior editor at Newsweek,{{Cite news|title=Elijah Wolfson|language=en|work=Newsweek|url=http://www.newsweek.com/authors/elijah-wolfson|access-date=2017-04-17}} where he covered science, health, technology and culture.{{cite web|author=Elijah Wolfson|date=August 12, 2015|title=Sex Cells|url=http://www.fnal.gov/pub/colloquium/abs/Wolfson_8_12_15.pdf|accessdate=2017-08-19|website=Fnal.gov}}{{cite book|last=Barbara|first=Guzzetti|date=27 August 2015|title=Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bw14CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA621|accessdate=19 August 2017|publisher=IGI Global|isbn=9781466683112|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|title=Newsweek Announces Results of 2015 Green Rankings|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/newsweek-announces-results-of-2015-green-rankings-506161791.html|accessdate=19 August 2017|website=Prnewswire.co.uk}} Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic,{{cite web|title=Seeing red: The 'messy' meanings of how we see color|url=https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/01/seeing-red-messy-meanings-how-we-see-color|accessdate=19 August 2017|website=Minnpost.com|date=January 31, 2014 }}{{Cite web|last=Wolfson|first=Elijah|title=Elijah Wolfson|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/elijah-wolfson/|access-date=2017-04-17|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US}} Al Jazeera America,{{Cite web|title=Elijah Wolfson|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/w/elijah-wolfson.html|access-date=2017-04-17|website=america.aljazeera.com}}{{cite web|last=Essig|first=Todd|title=Managing The Risks Of Taking Adderall To Enhance Work Performance|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2013/12/06/managing-the-risks-of-taking-adderall-to-enhance-work-performance/#1e9de70e7eff|accessdate=19 August 2017|website=Forbes.com}} Vice,{{Cite web|title=Elijah Wolfson|url=https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/elijah-wolfson/|access-date=2017-04-17|website=Motherboard|language=en}} and the Huffington Post,{{Cite web|title=Elijah Wolfson |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/author/elijah-wolfson-|access-date=2017-04-17|website=The Huffington Post}}{{cite book|last=Scrivner|first=L.|date=24 September 2014|title=Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41eoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT17|accessdate=19 August 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781137268747|via=Google Books}} and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News,{{Cite web|title=BBC World Focus on Africa Newsweek Ebola|url=https://vimeo.com/104650301|access-date=2017-04-17|website=Vimeo}} NPR and other media outlets.{{Cite news|last=Altman|first=Anna|title=Retweet if You're Grieving|department=Op-Talk|work=The New York Times |date=October 22, 2014 |url=https://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/retweet-if-youre-grieving/?_r=0|access-date=2017-04-17}}

Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/university-california-system-turning-private-285962|title=UC Regents Approve System-Wide Tuition Hikes|date=20 November 2014|website=Newsweek.com|accessdate=19 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://talkingbiznews.com/1/quartz-hires-ideas-editor-markets-reporter-in-london-others/|title=Quartz hires ideas editor, markets reporter in London, others - Talking Biz News|website=talkingbiznews.com|date=June 28, 2016 |accessdate=19 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2008/05/pfa-we-are-cinema-evening-class.html|title=The Evening Class: PFA: We Are Cinema — The Evening Class Interviews With Matt Losada, Elijah Wolfson and Hector Jimenez|first=Michael|last=Guillen|date=5 May 2008|website=Theveningclass.blogspot.com|accessdate=19 August 2017}} He is the son of Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson a psychotherapist, and of the scholar Elliot Wolfson. In 2013, he married the writer and painter Jas Johl, his former co-editor at The Cal Literature and Arts Magazine at Berkeley. The pair separated in 2018; they remain artistic collaborators.

In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.{{Cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2013/10/04/amy-solomon-senior-advisor-department-of-justice-and-hon-robert-russell-presiding-judge-at-drug-treatment-courts-of-buffalo-n-y-to-speak-on-correctional-health-care-and-the-affordable-care-act/|title=Amy Solomon, Senior Advisor, Department of Justice; and Hon. Robert Russell, Presiding Judge at Drug Treatment Courts of Buffalo, N.Y. to speak on correctional health care and the Affordable Care Act at John Jay College – CUNY Newswire – CUNY|website=Cuny.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-17}} In 2015, he was awarded an International Reporting Project Fellowship,{{Cite web|url=https://internationalreportingproject.org/fellows-editors/profile/wolfson-elijah|title=Wolfson, Elijah — International Reporting Project|website=internationalreportingproject.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-17}} and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2016/04/29/nepal-earthquake-ghorka-kharelthok-resource-center-450396.html|title=The poorest Nepalis suffer the most after the 2015 earthquake devastation|date=2016-04-21|website=Newsweek|access-date=2017-04-17}} In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship{{cite web|url=http://metcalfinstitute.org/newsrelease-2015-fellows/|title=Ten Journalists Awarded Metcalf Institute Fellowship|website=metcalfinstitute.org|accessdate=19 August 2017}} and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries.{{Cite web|url=https://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/news/view/69/|title=The Population Institute|website=Populationinstitute.org|access-date=2017-04-17}}

In 2016, his Newsweek cover story{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2016/03/11/child-abuse-allegations-hasidic-ultraorthodox-jewish-community-brooklyn-432688.html|title=For decades, child abuse was allegedly covered up in Brooklyn's Hasidic community|date=3 March 2016|website=Newsweek|accessdate=19 August 2017}} investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/investigation-claims-abuse-chabad-school-system|title=Investigating Abuse Allegations in the Chabad School System|website=Wnyc.org|accessdate=19 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.survivorsforjustice.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2672:investigating-abuse-allegations-in-the-chabad-school-system&catid=2:news&Itemid=57|title=Investigating Abuse Allegations in the Chabad School System|website=Survivorsforjustice.org|accessdate=19 August 2017}} The story sparked protests.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/yeshiva-child-abuse-newsweek-protest-438482|title=Newsweek exposé on alleged Hasidic child abuse sparks Brooklyn protest|date=18 March 2016|website=Newsweek|accessdate=19 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://frumfollies.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/why-you-should-attend-the-sunday-demonstration-in-crown-heights-against-abuse/|title=Why You Should Attend the Sunday Demonstration in Crown Heights against Abuse|first=Yerachmiel|last=Lopin|date=18 March 2016|website=Frumfollies.wordpress.com|accessdate=19 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=39685|title=Don't Burn Down the House|website=collive|date=March 13, 2016 |accessdate=19 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/life/2016/03/like-the-catholic-church-the-hasidic-community-has-a-child-abuse-problem|title=Like the Catholic Church, the Hasidic Community Has a Child Abuse Problem|website=Complex|accessdate=19 August 2017}}