Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is the Washington editor of Yahoo News and editor in chief of Yahoo Politics. Previously she was a national political reporter at and politics editor of The Atlantic Online, national web politics editor for the Washington Post and a blogger for its WhoRunsGov site, a senior editor at the American Prospect and a senior writer at the Washington City Paper, D.C.'s alternative weekly newspaper. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon, Legal Affairs, Utne Reader and National Journal, and is also a frequent diavlog participant with other political and current event journalists on BloggingHeads.tv. After attending Hunter College, she transferred to Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997.

Franke-Ruta was born in Cavaillon while her parents were staying in Lacoste, Vaucluse, and grew up in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City. Her first name is a French word referring to a shade of red and is the name of the main character in Les Enfants du Paradis. Franke-Ruta is the granddaughter of Nelson Frank, niece of Johanna Hurwitz, and cousin of Ted Frank.

She attended school in Greenwich Village and then attended Santa Fe High School and a private high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• 2007 The Hillman Prize, for "Tapped", The American Prospect
• 2006 Shorenstein Center fellowship, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government