Joan Walsh

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Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 3:25 PM UTC

Taking a short vacation

See you June 30!

By Joan Walsh

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There’s been some speculation on my whereabouts. I am not hiking the Appalachian Trail, visiting Buenos Aires, or using Dick Cheney’s abandoned bunker since he’s crawled out of it. And it probably looks really suspicious that I’m surfacing the same day as Gov. Mark Sanford …

But I am, in fact, on vacation — and my staff and family members know where I am, I promise! See you all next week.

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Joan Walsh 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.