The New Republic Names Franklin Foer As Top Editor...
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For a small outfit, The New Republic has always gone long on drama. Its changes in leadership have usually arrived in the form of rolling coups or lightning bolts from above. So it is refreshing, if a bit underwhelming, to report that Franklin Foer, a senior editor with the magazine, is quietly taking over the shop next week from the current editor, Peter Beinart, who has a book to promote and ambitions of returning to longer form writing.
"I think this is the first bloodless transition in many years," said Mr. Foer, who was in New York yesterday.
The New York Times | DAVID CARR | February 27, 2006 11:45 PM