David Haskell

David Haskell is an American magazine editor and a co-founder of Kings County Distillery. He is also a gallery-represented ceramist. He was named editor-in-chief of New York in 2019, replacing longtime editor Adam Moss At the time of Haskell's appointment the New York Times noted that he is: “the sort of professionally omnivorous, type-A New Yorker who might merit a feature in his magazine’s pages.” In his first year as editor-in-chief he published advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's account of being sexually assaulted by President Donald Trump and a cover on Donald Trump's potential impeachment that won the American Society of Magazine Editors Cover of the Year contest. In 2021, he was named Adweek’s Publishing Editor of the Year Education Haskell graduated from Yale University in 2001 and was a Truman Scholar class of 2000. After Yale he studied at Queens' College, Cambridge in the inaugural class of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, receiving a Master of Letters in architecture. Career While at Cambridge, Haskell founded the quarterly magazine Topic: “when I found myself with time on my hands in Cambridge, I concentrated on starting something new that had to do with writing, and over the course of a few months it became clear that what we were working on was a magazine.” He moved Topic to New York City in 2004 while waiting tables as his day job. Victor Navasky, then publisher of The Nation and a professor at Columbia Journalism School, told the New York Times: “I see hundreds of little magazines, and Topic struck me as one of the smartest and most interesting combinations of literary aspiration and accessibility, with a very striking design.” Haskell edited Topic from 2002 to 2007, when he joined New York (magazine), initially to edit a special London issue. In his early years at New York (magazine), Haskell edited the magazine's “My First New York” issue, which was published as a book from Ecco in 2010. He also edited special features for the magazine, including a package on Barack Obama’s legacy, speaking with 50 historians on how Obama's record would look years from now.