Time magazine managing editor Jim Kelly didn’t have far to look when he found that his national editor Richard Stengel was quitting – in a presidential election year – to become a museum curator.
Lisa Beyer, who was Time’s foreign editor, will move into the national editor’s slot.
Stengel is leaving on March 1 to become president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Beyer joined Time in 1988 as a staff writer and was Jerusalem bureau chief from 1991 to the fall of 2000, when she returned to New York.
She became society editor before becoming world editor in October 2001.
Romesh Ratnesar, who had been reporting from Baghdad and Afghanistan, is at the forefront of Time’s new rising stars. The 27-year-old staff writer, who has already penned more than 20 cover stories, has been named the new world editor.
Stengel co-authored the Nelson Mandela autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,” and recently wrote a book on the history of flattery, “You’re Too Kind: A History of Flattery.”