New York Mag’s New Editor Already Making Staff Changes

Adam Moss has officially been out of New York Magazine since Sunday, and already his successor is changing up the masthead. David Haskell, tapped to take over after Moss’ lauded 15-year run as editor in chief, has made two promotions in his first days in the role. Noreen Malone is now editorial director, moving up from her five years as the magazine’s features editor, and Genevieve Smith is becoming features director after about seven years as a senior editor. In her new position, Malone will assist Haskell as he brings his own vision to New York in print and online, while “paying special attention to cultivating writers and editors across the organization,” in a statement issued by the magazine. Meanwhile, Smith will work with Haskell and other editorial leaders on individual story ideas. Haskell, who has spent nearly his entire editorial career at New York, wrote in a memo that Malone “has mastered the art of magazine feature writing.” Some of her notable editing work includes Rebecca Traister’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein and the subsequent #MeToo movement, as well as being part of the team that developed the 2016 cover story on the many rape and sexual assault accusers of Bill Cosby. “She is

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