Hillary Frey

{{use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} {{infobox person | name = Hillary Frey | image = New America Breaking News Disrupting the Status Quo in Storytelling (cropped).jpg | alt = Hillary Frey at a New School event holding a microphone in October 2015 | caption = Frey in October 2015 | occupation = {{Hlist|journalist|editor}} | employer = ''Slate'' | spouse = Stefan Liebich | children = 1 }}

'''Hillary Frey''' is an American journalist. Since June 6, 2022, she has served as the current editor-in-chief of the online magazine ''Slate''.

== Career ==

Frey initially worked as a literary agent in New York City. After working in advertisement for the magazine ''Lingua Franca'', she was hired as an editorial assistant for the publication. Frey later served as an editor for ''The Nation'', Salon.com, ''The New York Observer'', and ''Politico''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Powell |first=Tracie |date=August 3, 2012 |title=New Yahoo News editor-in-chief: 'I'm always looking for a great story' |url=https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2012/new-yahoo-news-editor-in-chief-im-always-looking-for-a-great-story/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250107004843/https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2012/new-yahoo-news-editor-in-chief-im-always-looking-for-a-great-story/ |archive-date=January 7, 2025 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=Poynter Institute}}</ref>

In Fall 2010, Frey was hired as managing editor of ''Adweek''.<ref name="The Cutline 2011">{{cite web |date=October 17, 2011 |title=Adweek managing editor Hillary Frey leaves for Yahoo News on heels of Michael Wolff exit |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/cutline/adweek-managing-editor-hillary-frey-leaves-yahoo-news-173408523.html |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=Yahoo News}}</ref> She left the publication to become managing editor of Yahoo News in October 2011,<ref name="The Cutline 2011"/> later becoming its editor-in-chief a year later.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pompeo |first=Joe |date=July 18, 2012 |title=Yahoo! creates new editors-in-chief for news, finance |url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2012/07/yahoo-creates-new-editors-in-chief-for-news-finance-000611/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518115241/https://www.politico.com/media/story/2012/07/yahoo-creates-new-editors-in-chief-for-news-finance-000611 |archive-date=May 18, 2018 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=Politico |quote="Hillary Frey, who joined the company from Adweek almost a year ago, has been named editor-in-chief of Yahoo! News."}}</ref> She left the position to serve as editorial director of NBCNews.com in April 2013.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hagey |first=Keach |date=March 18, 2013 |title=NBCNews.com Snags Yahoo News Editor-in-Chief Amid First Wave of Hires |url=http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/18/nbcnews-com-makes-first-wave-of-hires/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218001248/https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/18/nbcnews-com-makes-first-wave-of-hires/ |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> In December 2014, she became the Director of Global News Operations at Fusion,<ref>{{cite web |last=Ariens |first=Chris |date=December 5, 2014 |title=The Morning Ticker: Frey, Trib, Cupp |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-ticker-frey-cupp-trib/ |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=Adweek |quote="Hillary Frey is joining Fusion as Director of Global News Operations."}}</ref> later becoming its executive editor.<ref>{{cite web |last=Calderone |first=Michael |date=November 5, 2015 |title=Fusion Enlists NYU And Parsons Students To Try And Disrupt Election Coverage |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fusion-nyu-parsons-election_n_563a7aace4b0411d306f75c3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250616075752/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fusion-nyu-parsons-election_n_563a7aace4b0411d306f75c3 |archive-date=June 16, 2025 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=HuffPost |quote="Fusion executive editor Hillary Frey, (...)"}}</ref>

In 2016, Medium's magazine, ''Matter'', was spun off into its own studio, Matter Studios. Frey and her then-husband, Mark Lotto, served together as co-creative officers of the new studio.<ref name="Hagey 2016">{{cite web |last=Hagey |first=Keach |date=2016-03-21 |title=Medium Spins Off Online Magazine Matter |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/medium-spins-off-online-magazine-matter-1458568801 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321171058/https://www.wsj.com/articles/medium-spins-off-online-magazine-matter-1458568801 |archive-date=2016-03-21 |access-date=2025-12-01 |website=The Wall Street Journal |issn=1042-9840}}</ref>

In 2017, Frey became director of editorial strategy at ''HuffPost''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Horgan |first=Richard |date=June 5, 2017 |title=Guardian US Managing Editor Moves Over to HuffPost |url=https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/huffpost-hillary-frey-jennifer-kho-shelley-venus-kate-rodemann/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304151111/https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/huffpost-hillary-frey-jennifer-kho-shelley-venus-kate-rodemann/ |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=Adweek |quote="[Frey] will come aboard full time as director of editorial strategy, effective immediately."}}</ref> She then served as its managing editor. In 2021, after Lydia Polgreen resigned as editor-in-chief, Frey was responsible for leading the newsroom at HuffPost. She resigned in September 2021 during a wave of layoffs after the outlet was acquired by Verizon.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boboltz |first=Sara |date=March 9, 2021 |title=BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/huffpost-buzzfeed-layoffs_n_60479ba2c5b6af8f98beb89d |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240528161851/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/huffpost-buzzfeed-layoffs_n_60479ba2c5b6af8f98beb89d |archive-date=May 28, 2024 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=HuffPost}}</ref>

She was appointed as a creator in residence on October 18, 2021 in the Newmark School of Journalism at City University of New York. She later graduated from the school's executive program a year later.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 7, 2021 |title=Creators in Residence to Help Advance Entrepreneurial Initiatives |url=https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2021/10/creators-in-residence-to-help-advance-entrepreneurial-initiatives/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603140036/https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2021/10/creators-in-residence-to-help-advance-entrepreneurial-initiatives/ |archive-date=June 3, 2024 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=Newmark Journalism School |quote="The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism has appointed two distinguished media leaders and entrepreneurs as its first Creators in Residence (...) [Yvonne Leow] and Hillary Frey, former executive editor of HuffPost, will join the school for one year beginning October 18."}}</ref><ref name="Fischer 2022"/><ref name="Robertson 2022"/><ref>{{cite web |date=November 29, 2023 |title=Demystifying Digital News: A Conversation with Slate's Editor-in-Chief Hillary Frey |url=https://event.newschool.edu/smsindustrytalk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124144113/https://event.newschool.edu/smsindustrytalk |archive-date=November 24, 2023 |access-date=2025-11-28 |website=The New School |quote="Hillary is a graduate of the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Newmark School of Journalism at City University of New York"}}</ref>

She serves the current editor-in-chief of the online magazine ''Slate'' since June 6, 2022.<ref name="Fischer 2022">{{cite web |last=Fischer |first=Sara |date=May 11, 2022 |title=Slate taps Hillary Frey as new editor-in-chief |url=https://www.axios.com/2022/05/11/slate-hillary-frey-new-editor-in-chief |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250709071225/https://www.axios.com/2022/05/11/slate-hillary-frey-new-editor-in-chief |archive-date=July 9, 2025 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |website=Axios}}</ref><ref name="Robertson 2022">{{cite news |last=Robertson |first=Katie |date=May 11, 2022 |title=Slate Names Ex-HuffPost Editor as Its New Top Editor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/business/media/hillary-frey-slate-editor-in-chief.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627183104/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/business/media/hillary-frey-slate-editor-in-chief.html |archive-date=June 27, 2023 |access-date=November 28, 2025 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Frey's ex-husband, Mark Lotto, served as a senior ''GQ'' editor in 2011<ref name="The Cutline 2011"/> and as a creative officer for Matter Studios in 2016.<ref name="Hagey 2016"/> {{As of|2024}}, she resided in Brooklyn alongside her daughter and husband, Stefan Liebich.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hillary Frey |url=https://www.ghco.com/slate-management/hillary-frey |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815025524/https://www.ghco.com/slate-management/hillary-frey |archive-date=August 15, 2024 |access-date=2025-11-28 |website=Graham Holdings Company |quote="[Frey] lives in Brooklyn with her daughter."}}</ref>

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