David Talbot

Notable work and positions

Salon - Founder, former Editor-in-Chief and CEO (1995-2005)
San Francisco Examiner - former Sunday magazine editor
Mother Jones - former Senior Editor

Biography

David Talbot is an American journalist, author and media entrepreneur who founded the online magazine Salon in 1995 and served as its editor-in-chief and CEO of Salon Media Group until 2005. Before launching Salon, he was a senior editor at Mother Jones magazine and edited the Sunday magazine, Image, at the San Francisco Examiner. Under his leadership, Salon became one of the earliest successful web-native news and culture publications, winning an Online Journalism Association award for general excellence and investigative reporting in 2000. Since leaving Salon, Talbot has written popular history books, including the New York Times bestsellers Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (2007) and The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, as well as the national bestseller Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. His most recent book, Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke, is a memoir following a 2017 stroke. He has also written for Time, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.