Sam Jacobs

Sam Jacobs is Editor in Chief at TIME where he leads TIME’s global newsroom and its journalism across all platforms. Since joining TIME in 2013, Jacobs has held a variety of senior editorial leadership positions. Previously, he was national political correspondent at Reuters, associate editor at Newsweek and staff reporter for The Daily Beast. His writing has appeared in the Boston Globe and New York Observer.

Recent Articles

Behind the Scenes of TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year Issue

This issue is an opportunity to be in conversation with history while embracing the future with arms wide open

By Sam Jacobs

Why Donald Trump Is TIME's 2024 Person of the Year

TIME's Editor-in-Chief explains why Donald Trump was chosen as the 2024 Person of the Year.

By Sam Jacobs

How TIME Is Preparing for Election Day

During one of the wildest presidential election campaigns in memory, the two candidates appear effectively tied in the battleground states.

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the New Class of Next Generation Leaders

For nearly a decade, through our Next Generation Leaders franchise, we've been sharing the stories of trailblazers shaping our future.

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the 2024 TIME100 Next

Growing up outside Boston in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was, by birthright and by accident of history, a fan of the Boston Celtics. At that time, the team, led by Larry Bird,...

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the Democracy Defenders

The list shines a spotlight on leaders who are working to boost voter participation, reverse disenfranchisement, and combat misinformation.

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the TIME100 AI 2024

Our second edition of the most influential people in AI features the best new additions to our community of AI leaders

By Sam Jacobs

Behind TIME’s ‘If He Wins’ Biden Cover

This is the third interview Joe Biden has given to TIME since he announced his candidacy for President in 2019

By Sam Jacobs

How TIME Chose the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2024

TIME solicited nominations across sectors including health care, entertainment, fashion, and technology.

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the New Class of Next Generation Leaders

For nearly a decade, through our Next Generation Leaders franchise, we've been sharing the stories of trailblazers shaping our future.

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in Health of 2024

The realm of health is in the middle of a golden age of transformation. Read how TIME chose the list of doctors, scientists and more.

By Sam Jacobs

Behind TIME’s ‘If He Wins’ Trump Cover

TIME interviewed the former President twice in April, in an effort to better understand what a second Presidency for Trump would look like.

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the 2024 TIME100

Here are the people who we believe most changed the stories that defined the past year.

By Sam Jacobs

Why Evan Gershkovich Is on TIME's Cover

We set out to tell the story of his arrest and imprisonment, and its impact on his family, friends, and co-workers in the months to follow.

By Sam Jacobs

Inside TIME’s Person of the Year Issue

"This issue demonstrates how many shapes influence can take."

By Sam Jacobs

Why Taylor Swift Is Person of the Year

Swift achieved a kind of nuclear fusion: shooting art and commerce together to release an energy of historic force.

By Sam Jacobs

A Look at TIME’s Century of Climate Change Coverage

In January of 1938, TIME’s editors considered how the sun might become a future energy source. A year later, TIME observed that scientists were seeing evidence of a warming planet. In 1953, TIME cautioned that...

By Sam Jacobs

Telling the Story of a Hostage Nightmare

As events throttle forward, we felt it was important to stop, and to listen, to hear from the family members of those who were taken.

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the New Class of Next Generation Leaders

For nearly a decade, through our Next Generation Leaders franchise, we've been sharing the stories of trailblazers shaping our future

By Sam Jacobs

How We Chose the 2023 TIME100 Next

I first heard Wemimo Abbey speak in August at the inaugural TIME Impact House in Martha’s Vineyard. It was clear to everyone that night that Abbey’s is a story worth sharing. Together with Samir Goel,...

By Sam Jacobs
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