Gergen Picked as New Editor of U.S. News
David Gergen, former White House spokesman and senior managing editor of U.S. News & World Report, was named editor of the weekly magazine Wednesday.
Gergen fills the post vacated in January when Editor Shelby Coffey resigned after just nine months to become editor of the Dallas Times-Herald.
“I look forward to working with him,” said Editor-in-Chief Mortimer Zuckerman, adding that the staff of the Washington-based magazine is “very enthusiastic” with the choice of Gergen, 43, who went to U.S. News a year ago as a columnist, was named managing editor last August and took over as senior managing editor at the first of this year.
Gergen, who was President Reagan’s director of communications from early 1984 to 1985, said: “It was the vision of U.S. News as a great news weekly, one that could blaze fresh trails of insight and interpretation, that originally drew me to the magazine. . . . We are building one of the finest teams in American journalism, and I am deeply grateful to Mortimer for this opportunity to lead it.”
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