about me

Douglas McGray writes about social and political issues, science, and culture for the New Yorker, This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, T, the Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, Wired, and Foreign Policy. He is a California-based fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Pop-Up Magazine, a new "live magazine" that showcases documentary film, photography, radio, interviews, and print journalism live on stage in San Francisco. His work has received a number of national journalism awards, and been profiled on the cover of Time Asia and in the "Year in Ideas" issue of the New York Times Magazine. Previously a features editor at Foreign Policy, Doug was an architect of its transformation from a quarterly journal into an acclaimed magazine. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, NPR, and the Charlie Rose Show. Doug graduated from Brown University.