Frances Stead Sellers

Frances Stead Sellers is a senior writer[1] and editor at The Washington Post.

Frances Stead Sellers
Born
United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe Washington Post
Civilization Magazine
Dædalus
Spouse(s)Mortimer Sellers

Life and career

As a national political reporter, Sellers covered the 2016 presidential campaign, writing about the leading candidates and key figures in the Trump administration. She was a member of the team that wrote the 2016 best seller Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President.[2]

She has been a senior editor[3] in charge of several sections of The Washington Post, including Health and Science and the signature daily section, Style, which focuses on political profiles, personalities, arts and ideas.

As deputy national editor, Sellers ran the newsroom's health, science and environmental coverage, during the battle over health reform, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2011 Japanese tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Her previous jobs at the Post include deputy editor of Outlook, the Sunday commentary section.

Sellers joined The Post from Civilization, the bi-monthly magazine of the Library of Congress. She was a key member of the launch team, and led the magazine to a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first year of publication. Sellers started her career at Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She has appeared as a commentator on a range of subjects on TV and radio, including BBC World News,[4] NPR's Diane Rehm Show[5] and MSNBC's Morning Joe[6][7][8][9] and interviewed prominent figures in the arts and sciences.[10][11] Her article on Harlem Renaissance philosopher Alain Locke was selected as notable literary nonfiction in “The Best American Essays 2015.”[12]

Frances Stead Sellers was born in Britain, graduated from Oxford University and came to the United States as a British Thouron scholar in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Among many other topics, she is known for writing about language, citizenship and identity. Sellers is married to the law professor Mortimer Sellers.

Awards
  • Visiting Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2017 [13]
  • Visiting Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 2017
  • Press Fellow, UN Foundation, 2015
  • Press Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge - 2006 [14]
  • Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow - 2003 [15]
  • British Thouron Scholarship

References
  1. "Frances Stead Sellers becomes senior writer". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  2. Kranish, Michael; Fisher, Marc (2016-08-23). Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President. Scribner.
  3. "WaPo Names New 'Collegial' Style Editor". Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  4. "What Does Steve Bannon Think?, Newshour Extra - BBC World Service". BBC. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  5. C.P. Snow (2015-02-26). "Readers' Review: "The Masters" by C.P. Snow". The Diane Rehm Show. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  6. "Meet the hero of the Harlem Renaissance". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  7. "Fortune releases most powerful women list". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  8. "What will be Lewinsky's next move?". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  9. "Ebola and the stigma of quarantine". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  10. "Siri Hustvedt: 2014 National Book Festival Webcast | Library of Congress". Loc.gov. 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  11. "Frances Stead Sellers". C-SPAN.org. 2011-08-01. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  12. Levy, Ariel; Atwan, Robert (2015-10-06). The Best American Essays 2015. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780544569621.
  13. "Frances Stead Sellers, Visiting Fellow". Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  14. "Alumni | Wolfson College Cambridge". Wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
  15. "Frances Stead Sellers | Alicia Patterson Foundation". Aliciapatterson.org. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.