The shared-power arrangement echoes the history of the magazine, which was founded in 1963 by Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein and edited by the pair until Epstein’s death in 2006. Silvers then maintained control of the publication until his death in 2017.
The announcement comes more than five months after Buruma, Silvers’ successor, left his position amid an uproar over the publication and ensuing defense of an essay about the #MeToo movement by Jian Ghomeshi, a Canadian radio broadcaster who had been accused of sexually assaulting women. Soon after Buruma departed, the magazine issued a statement acknowledging “failures in the presentation and editing” of the essay.
Greenhouse was most recently the managing editor of The New Yorker. She worked at the Review in 2011 and 2012, as an editorial assistant to Silvers. Winslow-Yost began working at the Review, also as an editorial assistant to Silvers, in 2009, and moved up the editorial ranks to become a senior editor.
Greenhouse and Winslow-Yost believe their longtime friendship, and the time they spent working together for Silvers, will help them share power.
“Working as an assistant at the Review is a tag-in, tag-out experience, and you necessarily establish a trust,” Greenhouse said.
In separate interviews, both editors said they don’t expect to divide the workload into distinct subject areas, aside from a few exceptions.
“Some things will sort themselves into one half of the head or the other, as we go,” Winslow-Yost said. “But the idea is not to divide things into two camps, which is, as I understand, how Bob and Barbara did it. They had to agree on every piece that went in, even if it took weeks of hammering out.”
Hederman said Mendelsohn, in his role, would be in the office perhaps one day a week, and that his longtime relationship with Silvers, the Review and many of the magazine’s contributors could only help the younger co-editors.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.