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Frances Stead Sellers

Frances Stead Sellers is a journalist and moderator who serves as Associate Editor[1] of The Washington Post where she is a frequent host of the newsroom's live platform, Washington Post Live.[2]

Frances Stead Sellers
Born
United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
OccupationJournalist
Employer(s)The Washington Post
Civilization Magazine
Dædalus
SpouseMortimer Sellers

Life and career

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Sellers’ career as a reporter, editor and moderator has ranged from politics to the arts and sciences. In recent years, as the newsroom's senior writer[3] she has written extensively about the coronavirus pandemic[4][5] and the country’s political polarization and cultural upheaval.[6][7]

Sellers is a regular host of Washington Post Live, where she launched the Explaining America series[8] and has interviewed key figures in the contemporary political and cultural conversations.[9][10][11] The Disability in American series that she hosted won a 2022 Telly Award for diversity and inclusion.[12]

As a national political reporter, Sellers covered the 2016 presidential campaign and was a member of the team that wrote the 2016 best seller Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President.[13]

Sellers has been a senior editor[14] in charge of several sections of The Washington Post, including Health and Science and the signature daily section, Style, which focuses on political profiles, personalities, arts and ideas.

As deputy national editor, Sellers ran the newsroom's health, science and environmental coverage, during the H1N1 pandemic, the battle over health reform, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2011 Japanese tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Her previous jobs at the Post include deputy editor of Outlook, the Sunday commentary section.[citation needed]

Sellers is often called upon to explain U.S. current events to British audiences on BBC Radio 4's current affairs programming. She has appeared as a commentator on BBC World News[15] and MSNBC's Morning Joe[16][17][18][19] and interviewed prominent figures in the arts, sciences and politics.[20][21] She is a moderator for idea festivals[22] and academic conferences.[23] Since 2022, Sellers has led the Future Trends Forum for the BankInter Innovation Foundation, convening two-day gatherings in Madrid on topics ranging from Building a Net Zero World[24] to the Future of Computing.[25]

Sellers joined The Post from Civilization, the bi-monthly magazine of the Library of Congress. She was a member of the launch team, and led the magazine to a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first year of publication.[citation needed] Sellers started her career at Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sellers was born in Britain, graduated from Oxford University and came to the United States as a British Thouron scholar to study linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.[citation needed] Among many other areas of interest, she is known for writing about language, citizenship and identity.[26][27] Sellers is married to the law professor Mortimer Sellers.

Awards

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  • Journalist in Residence, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, 2024[28]
  • Visiting Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2017 [29]
  • Visiting Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 2017
  • Press Fellow, UN Foundation, 2015
  • Press Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge - 2006 [30]
  • Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow - 2003 [31]
  • British Thouron Scholarship

References

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  1. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers is Associate Editor". Washington Post. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Washington Post Live". The Washington Post.
  3. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers becomes senior writer". Washington Post. 23 December 2021. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  4. ^ Sellers, Frances (17 November 2020). "Echoes of a pandemic: Experts fear lessons from the 2009 H1N1 vaccine drive are being ignored". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ Sellers, Frances (19 October 2020). "The pandemic is rewriting the rules of science. But at what cost?". The Washington Post.
  6. ^ Sellers, Frances (13 July 2018). "'There were three shooters': Two Oklahoma citizens killed an active shooter, and it's not as simple as it sounds". The Washington Post.
  7. ^ Sellers, Frances (22 October 2018). "Confederate pride and prejudice: Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism". The Washington Post.
  8. ^ Washington Post Live (30 May 2023). Explaining America: Why the United States has a debt ceiling. Retrieved 9 October 2024 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers", Wikipedia, 19 July 2024, retrieved 9 October 2024
  10. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers", Wikipedia, 19 July 2024, retrieved 9 October 2024
  11. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers", Wikipedia, 19 July 2024, retrieved 9 October 2024
  12. ^ "Washington Post Live's "Disability in America" series".
  13. ^ Kranish, Michael; Fisher, Marc (23 August 2016). Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President. Scribner.
  14. ^ "WaPo Names New 'Collegial' Style Editor". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  15. ^ "What Does Steve Bannon Think?, Newshour Extra - BBC World Service". BBC. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  16. ^ "Meet the hero of the Harlem Renaissance". MSNBC. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  17. ^ "Fortune releases most powerful women list". MSNBC. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  18. ^ "What will be Lewinsky's next move?". MSNBC. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  19. ^ "Ebola and the stigma of quarantine". MSNBC. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  20. ^ "Siri Hustvedt: 2014 National Book Festival Webcast | Library of Congress". Loc.gov. 30 August 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  21. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers". C-SPAN.org. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  22. ^ "College of the Atlantic 2019 Champlain Institute — Bloomsbury: Private Consciousness and Social Cons". YouTube. 29 July 2018.
  23. ^ "A Panel Discussion of Professor Martha Nussbaum's YTL Centre Annual Lecture". Flickr. 15 March 2017.
  24. ^ Fundación Innovación Bankinter (12 July 2022). Nueva Narrativa para el NetZero | Scott Simon, Nicholas Kusnetz y Frances Stead Sellers. Retrieved 9 October 2024 – via YouTube.
  25. ^ "The future of Computing". Fundación Innovación Bankinter. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  26. ^ Sellers, Frances (19 July 2019). "I'm a dual citizen of the U.S. and Britain. But people rarely consider me an immigrant". The Washington Post.
  27. ^ "College of the Atlantic 2020 Champlain Institute — Call Me American". YouTube. 29 July 2020.
  28. ^ "MPIL Journalist in Residence". www.mpil.de. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  29. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers, Visiting Fellow". Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  30. ^ "Alumni | Wolfson College Cambridge". Wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  31. ^ "Frances Stead Sellers | Alicia Patterson Foundation". Aliciapatterson.org. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
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