Vox Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Swati Sharma today announced that Steve Heuser will join the organization as executive editor, starting March 23.
In his new role, Heuser will partner closely with Vox’s editorial leadership to guide coverage priorities, support editors and reporters, and further evolve the publication’s journalism in a rapidly changing media landscape. He will oversee the Politics, Policy & Ideas team; the Even Better & Lifestyle team; and the Today, Explained & Explain It to Me team.
“I’m so thrilled to welcome Steve to Vox,” Sharma said. “His editorial judgment, leadership experience, and deep understanding of the politics and policy landscape make him an exceptional fit for Vox at this moment.”
Heuser joins Vox from Politico, where he held several senior roles at the intersection of politics, policy, and innovation — and was known as a creative force in knitting together big-picture storylines on the changes driving American political culture.
As editor of Politico Magazine, he led a team of editors and designers who developed Politico’s longform stories, as well as handling all its outside contributors and opinion journalism. The magazine mixed quick-turn news analysis with high-polish narrative journalism and published several of the site’s highest-traffic stories.
As the founding editor of Politico’s The Agenda, he launched and ran a creative, design-forward online policy magazine that produced some of the site’s highest-profile coverage of health, energy, technology, and finance and won multiple awards.
In his most recent role, Heuser was Politico’s first global technology editor, leading Washington coverage of tech policy and coordinating across teams in Brussels, London, and California. He ran major tech storylines and planned high-profile packages and live events. He also launched the Politico Tech podcast and the Digital Future Daily newsletter, now the site’s most popular policy newsletter.
Before coming to Washington, Heuser was Ideas editor at the Boston Globe and a SABEW Award-winning biotechnology reporter. He edited a science series that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, as well as two Pulitzer finalists. He also covered a papal conclave from Rome and had side gigs as restaurant critic, travel writer, and book reviewer.
Heuser is a graduate of Yale University and, in his spare time, enjoys biking, skiing, and getting outdoors with his wife and very active first-grader.
