Elijah Wolfson

Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor.[1] He is currently an editorial director at Time primarily covering health and science.[2] Previously, he was an editor at Quartz.[3][4][5] and before that served as senior editor at Newsweek,[6] where he covered science, health, technology and culture.[7][8][9] Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic,[10][11] Al Jazeera America,[12][13] Vice,[14] and the Huffington Post,[15][16] and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News,[17] NPR and other media outlets.[18]

Elijah Wolfson

Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.[19][20][21] He is the son of Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson a psychotherapist, and of the scholar Elliot Wolfson.

In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.[22] In 2015, he was awarded an International Reporting Project Fellowship,[23] and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground.[24] In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship[25] and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries.[26]

In 2016, his Newsweek cover story[27] investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York.[28][29] The story sparked protests.[30][31][32][33]