Jacob Weisberg
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Slate Group, New York

Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, a unit of the Washington Post Co. devoted to developing Web-based publications. He joined Slate shortly after its founding in 1996 as chief political correspondent. He succeeded Michael Kinsley to become Slate’s second editor from 2002 until 2008, when he handed the job over to David Plotz. Before joining Slate, Weisberg wrote about politics for magazines, including the New Republic, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, “The Bush Tragedy”, was a New York Times bestseller in 2008. He is the co-author, with Robert E. Rubin, of “In an Uncertain World” (2003).