When I spoke with National Journal editor-in-chief Ron Fournier last week, I asked him if they were done with their crazy binging-and-poaching hiring spree. He said there were a "handful" of hires left to go.
It appears he was serious.
A day after announcing that it had snagged David Beard, editor of the Boston Globe's Boston.com, to become its deputy editor-in-chief and online editor, the National Journal Group named Adam Kushner, a senior editor at Newsweek, as deputy magazine editor.
"Adam will inject rigor and discipline to our analyses, ensuring that our reporters seize the heart of every story and not its capillaries," Fournier said in making the announcement.