Agri-Pulse is pleased to promote Executive Editor Philip Brasher to the position of Editor-in-Chief, effective May 1. He will be responsible for overseeing the entire editorial team for daily, weekly and special project coverage.
“Philip has excellent insights and shares my passion for providing comprehensive and balanced reporting on all of the farm, food and rural topics we cover,” said Agri-Pulse Founder and Publisher Sara Wyant. “This move will enable me to focus on more strategic growth opportunities and events.”
“I couldn’t be more excited to take on this new role,” said Brasher. “No issue is more vital to the nation and the globe than food security, and there’s no better team for covering food and agriculture policy in Washington, Sacramento and across the country. And we’re just getting started.”
Brasher has reported on food and agriculture policy full-time in Washington since 1999, leading coverage for The Associated Press, the Des Moines Register and Congressional Quarterly before joining Agri-Pulse in 2014.
He leverages his deep knowledge of the issues and his experience with top news organizations to ensure Agri-Pulse has the best daily and in-depth coverage of ag and food policy. His creative vision led to the launch of Agri-Pulse’s Daybreak in 2016.
Brasher has reported on food security challenges in Africa and Central America through grants provided by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. He’s also reported in Europe and the Middle East. The native of west Texas found his interest in ag policy piqued in the early 1990s when he successfully won an appeal to USDA in Washington on a negative crop insurance determination for his mom’s farmland.
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During his career, Brasher has had the chance to work with some of the nation’s best journalists, going all the way back to his days at the University of Texas at Austin, where his editor, Mark McKinnon (Showtime’s The Circus), taught him how to write a lead that people would read. His Pulitzer-winning publisher in Lufkin, Texas, Joe Murray, taught him that caring for your community means shining light on the good, and exposing injustice, wherever they’re found.
Brasher is a member of the board for the North American Agricultural Journalists and a member of the White House Correspondents Association. He lives in Falls Church, Va., with his wife, Lenora.
You can email Philip Brasher: Philip@Agri-Pulse.com
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