Vernon Loeb

Vernon joined ICN seven years ago and forged a strong partnership with David to build ICN into the nation’s largest dedicated climate newsroom. His editorial leadership has been transformational. He joined ICN from The Atlantic, where he was politics editor, following a distinguished career in the nation’s great newspapers as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He was California investigations editor at the Los Angeles Times, deputy managing editor for news at The Philadelphia Inquirer, metro editor at The Washington Post and managing editor at the Houston Chronicle. As a reporter he covered the Tiananmen Square uprising in Beijing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Boston Marathon bombing—right after he finished the race. Vernon opened ICN’s first local bureau in Texas and now ICN has 20. He’s launched and overseen ICN’s fellowship program to train journalism’s next generation. Almost 100 young reporters have participated so far.