Storyboard was launched last May, with Chris Mohney as its first editor-in-chief and Jessica Bennett as executive editor.
One year ago, Ben Smith joined the company as its first Editor-in-Chief and has launched ten content verticals and bureaus in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
In 1978, I joined The San Jose Mercury News as its first picture editor and was promoted to managing editor 16 years later.
His predecessor, Simon Rogers, joined Twitter in the US as its first data editor in 2013.
He started contributing, then joined the staff as its first reviews editor.
Both of them have had solid years in charge of their respective papers, and Wheatcroft has been tipped for a possible return to the Times as its first female editor.
The recurring debate about the value of negative book reviews flared up again last month, when Buzzfeed — which launched a books section on its Web site over the summer — hired Isaac Fitzgerald, a co-owner of the Rumpus and former director of publicity at McSweeney's, as its first books editor.
And last week's Nikkei deal for the paper looks to have significantly advanced her already strong chances of succeeding Barber as its first female editor: those predicting a "Tett offensive" that starts here point out that she had a previous job as Japanese bureau chief, wrote a book (Saving the Sun) "about Japan and how westerners need to behave there", and speaks Japanese.
The Edinburgh Review was founded by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, and Henry Brougham as a quarterly publication, with Jeffrey as its first and longtime editor.
