Meet the Editors

Matt Rothschild, Editor

Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine, which is one of the leading voices for peace and social justice in this country. Rothschild has appeared on Nightline, C-SPAN, The O'Reilly Factor, and NPR, and his newspaper commentaries have run in the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, and a host of other newspapers. Rothschild is also a frequent contributor to The Hill. A graduate of Harvard University, Rothschild prior to coming to The Progressive worked as the editor of Multinational Monitor, a magazine founded by Ralph Nader. Rothschild came to The Progressive in 1983, and has worked for the magazine in many different capacities, first as associate editor, then managing editor, then publisher, and since 1994 as editor. Rothschild brought on distinguished social critics as columnists, including Barbara Ehrenreich, Eduardo Galeano, and Howard Zinn. He added monthly original poetry from the likes of Martín Espada and Adrienne Rich, and he added the humorists Kate Clinton and Will Durst. On the magazine's website, Rothschild contributes several times a week with his "This Just In" commentaries. And he keeps a running tally of civil liberties infringements in his "McCarthyism Watch." Rothschild writes monthly in The Progressive. His "The New McCarthyism" ran as the cover story of the January 2002 issue of The Progressive, and he wrote "Bush Trashes the United Nations" as the cover story of the April 2003 issue. He has interviewed Senator Russ Feingold, singer Ani DiFranco, and the journalist Robert Fisk. He also hosts Progressive Radio, a syndicated weekly half-hour program, and he does radio commentaries Monday through Friday. Rothschild is also the co-founder and director of The Progressive Media Project, which since 1993 has been distributing opinion pieces to newspapers around the country in an effort to diversify and democratize the national debate.

Ruth Conniff, Political Editor

Ruth Conniff covers national politics for The Progressive and is a voice of The Progressive on many TV and radio programs. Conniff was a regular on CNN’s Sunday Capital Gang and is now a regular on PBS’s To the Contrary. She also has appeared frequently on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and on NPR and Pacifica. Conniff’s op-ed commentaries have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She also contributes regularly to Isthmus, Madison’s weekly newspaper. Conniff became The Progressive’s Associate Editor in 1991, and Managing Editor in January 1997.

Elizabeth DiNovella, Culture Editor

Elizabeth DiNovella is Culture Editor of The Progressive magazine. She writes about activism, politics, music, books, and film. She also produces Progressive Radio, a thirty-minute public affairs program hosted by Matthew Rothschild.

DiNovella joined The Progressive staff in 2001. She became Associate Editor in 2002 and Culture Editor in 2003.

Before working for The Progressive, DiNovella was the News and Public Affairs Director at WORT-FM, the community radio station of Madison, Wisconsin. She now volunteers in the news department at WORT-FM.

Amitabh Pal, Managing Editor

Amitabh Pal has written several articles for the magazine. His feature on pacifist Abdul Ghaffar Khan, "Frontier Gandhi", appeared in the February 2002 issue and was republished by the Utne magazine, and his article on the call center industry in India, "Indian by Day, American by Night" appeared in the August 2004 issue. He has also done interviews for The Progressive, including of John Kenneth Galbraith in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev in the December 2003 issue, and Shirin Ebadi in the September 2004 issue. Prior to becoming Managing Editor, Pal was the Editor of the Progressive Media Project, an op-ed service affiliated with The Progressivethat sends out commentaries to approximately 350 daily newspapers. His op-eds have been published in several newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Houston Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Miami Herald. He has appeared on several radio stations based all over the United States and in Europe. His articles have been featured in college and school textbooks in the United States and Australia. Pal was the Editor of the Progressive Media Project from November 1997 till March 2003. He joined as Associate Editor of the Project in February 1997. He earlier did a stint as Municipal Editor with the State Port Pilot in Southport, N.C. Pal has a Master's in Political Science, specializing in international relations, from N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C. He has a Master's in Journalism from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.