Josh Voorhees

Josh Voorhees is an American political and investigative journalist. He is a former senior writer for Slate, and the former editor of its news blog, The Slatest. He earned a BA from Davidson College and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Career

Voorhees worked as a teacher in London, England before becoming a journalist. One of his first beats was at E&E News, where he covered the auto industry. He later worked at Politico, where he wrote the Morning Energy newsletter, before joining Slate to launch the magazine's news and aggregation vertical.
In 2013, he was named a fellow of the Kiplinger Program by Ohio State University, and in 2021, he was named a fellow at the Pulitzer Center. In 2009, The Hill named him one of the 50 most beautiful people of the year.