Samuel Jacobs (journalist)

Samuel Posin Jacobs is an American journalist. In April 2023, he was named editor-in-chief of Time magazine, the youngest since Henry Luce, the magazine's co-founder.^[1]

Samuel Jacobs
Occupation	Editor-in-chief of Time
Citizenship	American
Education	Harvard University

Biography

In 2009, Jacobs graduated from Harvard University, where he studied history.^[2][3] The title of his thesis was Walter Weyl and the Progressive Mind: The Promise and Problems of the New Democracy.^[4] He was associate managing editor of The Harvard Crimson.^[5] Jacobs attended The Roxbury Latin School.^[6]

Before coming to Time in 2013, he covered politics for The Daily Beast, edited Newsweek's front of the book section, and was a U.S. campaign correspondent for Reuters.^[2][3][7]

Jacobs was initially senior editor of time.com and was promoted in 2014 to assistant managing editor the magazine.^[3][7] In 2016, he was promoted to executive editor of Time Digital.^[8] He was deputy editor from 2019 until being named editor-in-chief in 2023.^[1][9][10]