Ian Gordon Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

As editorial director for teams and coverage, I help reporters and editors surface and hone ideas across our many beats. In this role, I have served as a newsroom coach, running a reporter-editor rotation that included weeklong observations to assess and help improve working relationships, processes, beat mastery, idea generation, and production. Beyond that, I helped create thematic pods where we developed ambitious, cross-bureau projects and investigations.I also manage several reporters, solicit freelance submissions, and edit articles—from daily breaking news and data deep-dives to longform features—for print and MotherJones.com. My main areas of interest are immigration, sports, and Latin America, but I edit pieces on practically everything: politics, education, inequality, race, gender, policing, the environment, and more. In 2022, I worked closely with one of my reporters to wrangle and edit a 15-story, 32-page package on the devastation that private equity has wrought on the US economy.Additionally, I have reported and written extensively at Mother Jones:• My yearlong investigation into Major League Baseball's Dominican pipeline—and the death of Washington Nationals prospect Yewri Guillén—was named to several Best of 2013 lists (Deadspin, Sports on Earth, and ThinkProgress) and was included in the Notables section of Best American Sports Writing 2014. • In 2014, I was one of the first reporters to cover the Central American child migrant crisis, and my magazine feature on the surge of kids at the border was cited in a New York Times board editorial and highlighted by Longreads.com.• Other notable stories include the tale of a bizarre rental dispute involving two university professors (listed by Longform, Longreads, and the Sunday Long Read); a reported essay on the death of the American asylum system (Longreads); and a personal essay about two gay Cuban friends who died of HIV-related illnesses (Longreads).

I shepherded stories from first draft to the printed page and wrangled reporters, editors, the art team, and fact-checkers across three offices.

Focusing on sports, Latin America, and immigration, I've written features, sidebars, and front-of-the-book stories for ESPN The Magazine, Wired, Slate, ESPN.com, the Christian Science Monitor, VanityFair.com, and others.Highlights include:— "They Love Me, These Kids. They Love Me Because I'm Real." Medium, November 16, 2014— "These Go to 11," ESPN The Magazine, November 4, 2010— "Caught Looking," ESPN The Magazine, June 4, 2007— "Our American Stronghold," VanityFair.com, June 2007— "Flight Simulator," Slate, Dec. 29, 2006— "The Outsiders," ESPN The Magazine, Jan. 30, 2006

I edited and wrote college basketball and baseball content—everything from department stories to features, notes columns to packages—for this NMA-winning, biweekly national sports magazine with a circulation of nearly 2.1 million.

Fulbright Us Student Program

As one of two Fulbrighters in Venezuela, I investigated labor rights abuses and steroid use in professional baseball academies along the northern coast.

Ab, Journalism & Mass Communication; Spanish

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Tau Alpha (journalism honors society), study abroad in Sevilla, Spain (Spring 2001).

Ma, Latin American Studies

At Berkeley, I focused on immigration, deportation, transnationalism, borderlands, gender, and citizenship. If you're interested, there's.