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Emily Greenhouse (born 1986) is an American journalist. She has been the editor of The New York Review of Books since March 2021, [1] [2] after being appointed co-editor in March 2019. [3]

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Education and career

Greenhouse graduated from Pelham Memorial High School and went on to graduate from Wesleyan University in 2008. [4]

Greenhouse began her career as a freelance researcher and writer in Paris. She worked as an editorial assistant at Granta magazine, [5] in London, in 2009 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012, she worked as an editorial assistant to Robert B. Silvers, the co-founder of The New York Review of Books. [3] [6] From 2012 to 2014, she worked as editorial assistant to David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker. Greenhouse joined Bloomberg as a reporter in 2014, focusing on gender and politics. [7] In 2016, she returned to The New Yorker as the managing editor, [7] where she remained until 2019. [8] Tapped to lead The New York Review of Books following Ian Buruma’s departure, she returned to the publication in 2019. [3]

Selected works

Personal life

Greenhouse is the daughter of Steven Greenhouse, the longtime New York Times labor and workplace reporter. [9] She is married to Martin Mulkeen. [10]

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