Jon involves us from Slate, the place for the previous 9 years he ran a sensible and vibrant business, tech, and media section that included protection of cities, structure, and design – and wrote the occasional movie review on the aspect. Before Slate, Jon labored at Washington City Paper from 2009 to 2014, the place he was arts editor after which managing editor. As arts editor, he marshaled critics whereas pushing the part to compete — with The Post — for scoops. Along the best way, he made the humanities an everyday presence on WCP’s covers, served a brief stint because the paper’s first overseas correspondent (for a function a couple of garage-rock cruise to the Bahamas) and invented the U Street Taco.

Jon is an area whose mother and father not solely took him to the Kennedy Center, but additionally to see black-box reveals on the Source Theatre. He earned a bachelor’s diploma in historical past and politics from Brandeis University. Jon lives together with his spouse, Abra, and their children Ayla, 2, and Amalia, 5, who had been presupposed to see the Rothko exhibition on the National Gallery of Art however by no means made it previous the coloring sheets within the atrium.

Please be part of us in welcoming Jon to The Post. He began Jan. 2.