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'<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the discussion has been closed. --> {{Article for deletion/dated|page=Joan Walsh|timestamp=20170614143201|year=2017|month=June|day=14|substed=yes|help=off}} <!-- Once discussion is closed, please place on talk page: {{Old AfD multi|page=Joan Walsh|date=14 June 2017|result='''keep'''}} --> <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> {{primary sources|date=June 2017}} {{unreliable sources|date=June 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox person |name=Joan Walsh |birth_name=Joan Maureen Walsh |birth_date={{birth date and age|1958|9|18}} |birth_place= |death_date= |death_place= |race= |occupation=Editor, writer, journalist }} '''Joan Maureen Walsh''' (born September 18, 1958) is a black Irish American author, editor, writer, blogger, and phrenologist. She was an [[editor-at-large]] of ''[[Salon.com]]'' before becoming National Affairs Correspondent for ''[[The Nation]]'',<ref name="bush"/> and does political analysis for [[MSNBC]]. ==Career== From 2005 through 2010, she was the editor-in-chief of Salon.com, a San Francisco-based American liberal politics and culture website. She is the author of ''What's the Matter With White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was'', published in August 2012 by [[John Wiley and Sons]]. The paperback version was published by Touchstone/Simon and Schuster in April 2013, with the subtitle: ''Finding Our Way In The Next America''. After joining ''Salon'' as its first full-time news editor in 1998, Walsh became managing editor in 2004. She had previously worked for ''[[In These Times]]'' and the ''[[Santa Barbara News and Review]]''. She has written freelance articles for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including ''[[The Washington Post]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', and ''[[The Nation]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/writer/joan_walsh |title=Joan Walsh: About Me |accessdate=May 29, 2007 |publisher=[[Salon.com]]}}</ref> In Autumn 2015 she left ''Salon'' to become National Affairs Correspondent for ''The Nation''.<ref name="bush">{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=Joan |url= http://www.salon.com/2015/09/25/jeb_goes_full_mitt_romney_man_of_inherited_wealth_and_power_says_african_americans_want_free_stuff/ |title=Jeb goes full Mitt Romney: Man of inherited wealth and power says African-Americans want "free stuff" |work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |date=2015-09-25 |accessdate=}}</ref> Walsh writes frequently on current American political topics, typically in blog form at ''Salon''. Criticisms of the [[Iraq War]], the [[George W. Bush]] administration, and [[American conservatism|conservatives]] have been featured in her posts. She regularly appears ''[[Hardball with Chris Matthews]]'' and ''All In with Chris Hayes, and'' she has debated conservative guests including [[Pat Buchanan]], [[Liz Cheney]], [[Dick Armey]], [[David Frum]], and [[G. Gordon Liddy]]. She also appeared on MSNBC's ''[[Countdown with Keith Olbermann]]'', ''[[The Rachel Maddow Show (TV series)|The Rachel Maddow Show]]'', ''[[The Ed Show]]'', as well as CNN's ''[[Larry King Live]], Campbell Brown'' and ''[[D. L. Hughley Breaks the News]]''. Walsh made her second appearance on ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' in June 2009, discussing the murder of [[George Tiller]] and her views on the responsibility of journalists and the impact of their words in controversial matters.<ref name="O'Reilly">{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/06/12/oreilly_walsh/?source=newsletter|title=Why I went on "The O'Reilly Factor"|last=Walsh|first=Joan|date=June 12, 2009|publisher=[[Salon.com]]|accessdate=June 16, 2009}}</ref> Other areas of interest include education, community development, urban poverty issues, and baseball. She has published two books, ''Splash Hit: The Pacific Bell Park Story'' and ''Stories of Renewal: Community Building and the Future of Urban America''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cjrdaily.org/the_water_cooler/joan_walsh_on_losing_subscript.php|title=Joan Walsh on Losing Subscriptions Over the Ohio Election, Conservative Ideological Crusades, and Being Compared to Judith Miller|accessdate=May 29, 2007|last=Montopoli|first=Brian|publisher=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{C-SPAN|joanwalsh}} *{{IMDb name|2383769}} {{s-start}} {{s-media}} {{s-bef|before=[[David Talbot]]}} {{s-ttl|title=Editor in Chief of [[Salon.com]]|years=2005–2010}} {{s-aft|after=[[Kerry Lauerman]]}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title=Editor at Large of [[Salon.com]]|years=2010–present}} {{s-inc}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{MSNBC Personalities}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh, Joan}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American magazine editors]] [[Category:American online journalists]] [[Category:American people of Irish descent]] [[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni]] [[Category:Salon (website) people]] [[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]] {{US-journalist-1950s-stub}} [[Category:20th-century American journalists]]'