I’m an editor and journalist in New York City. I currently work as an editor at Vox and occasionally help out as a contributing editor for the newsletter collective Flaming Hydra.
Previously I spent more than 10 years at Slate, where I was a senior editor on news and politics and the sports editor. Before that, I worked at WNYC’s The Takeaway as a per diem associate producer, and on NPR’s economics podcast Planet Money, where I helped out on the T-Shirt Project and several other stories. My own stories — on politics, sports, media, language, pop culture, health, economics, and other topics — have been published by Slate, The Atlantic, NPR, HuffPost, In These Times, Columbia Journalism Review, DNAinfo NY (defunct), Chicago Booth Magazine, and others.
In 2013, I earned a master’s in magazine journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before that I worked as a grant writer, a university communications writer, an occasional freelance journalist, a bar doorman, and an illegal parking lot (defunct) attendant in Chicago. I live in Brooklyn, on what’s left of Twitter @sethmaxon, and on Bluesky @methsaxon.bsky.social.
Seth Maxon 