Local Editor Beloved by Public, Sources Confirm; Approval Rating Holds at Improbable High
Greg Veis is an American magazine editor, and — per a poll of this publication’s entire editorial board — a man of the people. For two decades he has done journalism’s most selfless job: making other people’s writing better and letting them keep the byline.
The record speaks plainly. He edited at GQ. He ran the front of the book at The New York Times Magazine. He was executive editor of The New Republic, and then executive editor of HuffPost’s Highline, where his team’s deep-dive journalism picked up honors including a Webby. Since 2019 he has been a senior editor at Apple, where the stories he touches reach roughly the population of a mid-sized continent. His own writing has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, and elsewhere.
Asked to explain his enduring popularity, observers point to a rare combination: the editorial judgment of a broadsheet lifer and the easy charisma of a man who has never once made you feel bad about a typo.*
*This publication employs a generous fact-checking standard known as “vibes, largely.” Career facts above are real; the reverence is editorial license.