Betsy Reed (born 1968) is an American journalist and editor. From January 2015, she was the editor-in-chief of ''

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''. In July 2022, she was named the editor-in-chief of ''Guardian US'', succeeding John Mulholland, and will assume her new position in the Fall. Reed earned a bachelor's degree in History and Literature from

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in 1990. She worked for sixteen years as editor at the weekly magazine ''

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'', starting as senior editor in 1998, and promoted to executive editor in 2006. She left ''The Nation'' in late 2014 in order to join ''The Intercept'' as its editor-in-chief.{{cite web , url = https://www.linkedin.com/in/betsy-reed-3020a3111 , title = Betsy Reed , work = LinkedIn , access-date = November 13, 2016 She has also edited several books of investigative journalism, including '' Blackwater'' and ''

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'' by

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, and the essay collection '' Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare''. In October 2020, Reed became embroiled in a public dispute with

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, co-founding editor of ''The Intercept''. Greenwald resigned in protest, saying that the publication refused to publish an article he wrote on Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden unless he removed sections critical of Biden.{{cite web, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/business/media/glenn-greenwald-leaving-intercept.html , title=Glenn Greenwald Leaves The Intercept, Claiming He Was Censored , work=

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, date=October 29, 2020 , access-date=October 29, 2020 , author=Robertson, Katie Reed disputed Greenwald's charge, and said she had asked Greenwald to substantiate his statements as part of the normal editing process but that Greenwald had refused. The following week, Laura Poitras, who, like Greenwald, co-founded ''The Intercept'', said she had been fired in 2016 "without cause" from First Look Media, the parent company of ''The Intercept'', for criticizing ''The Intercept''{{'s handling of whistleblower

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. In an open letter dated January 14, 2021, Poitras singled out Reed and First Look Media's CEO Michael Bloom for her firing.{{Cite web, url=https://www.praxisfilms.org/open-letter-from-laura-poitras/, title=Open Letter (updated), last=Poitras, first=Laura, orig-year=January 14, 2021 , date= March 23, 2021, publisher=Praxis Films First Look responded that it had not renewed Poitras's employment contract because she had not been very active with the company in recent years, and Reed called Poitras' claims "baseless and frankly ridiculous".{{cite web, url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/why-did-first-look-let-go-of-laura-poitras.html , title=Why Did First Look Let Go of Laura Poitras? , work= New York , date=February 24, 2021 , access-date=February 24, 2021 , last1=Jones , first1=Sarah , last2=Sterne , first2=Peter

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