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Joan Walsh

Tuesday, Dec 18, 2007 11:25 PM UTC

Changes at Salon

Michael Scherer leaves, Mike Madden is coming aboard, and welcome Sarah Hepola and James Hannaham!

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Some of you may have noticed the change to Michael Scherer’s bio at the bottom of his great Meghan McCain profile today, identifying him as our “former” Washington correspondent. I’m sad to say that Michael has left us to cover the presidential campaign for Time magazine. He’s been a crucial part of our news resurgence over the last two years, breaking stories on Abu Ghraib, George Allen’s race problems and the 2008 presidential campaign. We miss him already. But we’re thrilled to welcome Mike Madden, who has covered politics, Congress and Washington for Gannett News Service since 2000. Mike has also written for Time.com, the New York Observer, USA Today and Wonkette, and he’ll join Walter Shapiro on the campaign trail shortly.

We’ve made a few other great hires recently. Sarah Hepola joined us a few weeks ago as a deputy Life editor; her “Busting Out” was a big hit last week. She’s a former contributing editor at Nerve.com whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and Slate and on NPR. She’s also been a contributing writer at TheMorningNews.org. And in January James Hannaham will join us as a culture critic. James has written for the Village Voice, Spin, Out, Africana.com (now AOL Black Voices), Time Out NY and Interview, and teaches creative writing and journalism at the Pratt Institute. He’s already well known to Salon readers, having written in recent months about the Larry Craig scandal, Britney Spears’ new album, black and white attitudes toward poverty and Amy Winehouse’s self-destruction. We’ve been blessed with exceptional talent over the years but I think our 2008 team may be our best ever, and I’m looking forward to a great year.

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Joan Walsh is the author of "What's the Matter With White People: Finding Our Way in the Next America."

Joan joined Salon in 1998 to become the first full-time news editor and became editor in chief in February 2005. At the end of 2010, she became editor at large, to

write full time. In the last couple of years she's had the privilege of debating conservative zealots on TV, from Bill O' Reilly to Dick Armey to Pat Buchanan.

As a columnist for San Francisco Magazine, she won Western Magazine Awards in 2004 and 2005 for writing about local politics. She's written for everyone from the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post to Vogue and the Nation.

Before she joined Salon, Joan spent many years as a freelancer. She also ran her own business, consulting to national foundations and nonprofits on education, community development and urban poverty issues. She's a crazy San Francisco Giants fan and co-wrote a book about the ballpark back in 2001.

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