Filing since May 2022
Features Editor
Priya Chen
Edits the long-form side of the newsroom — the features that take a month, the reader case reports, the pieces too weird for a section front.
- Bylines on file
- 62
- Filing since
- May 2022
- On the masthead
- 4 years
- Filed from
- Brooklyn, New York
- Desks
- Features desk (lead)Peptides & Beyond (contributor)
- Pronouns
- she / her
Priya edits the features desk and, increasingly, the work at the seam between metabolic medicine and the people who sell it. She came to Wellness Wire from The Atlantic, where she was a senior editor on the science and technology side for four years.
She is the person who decides whether a 9,000-word piece on rapamycin readers is a 9,000-word piece or a 2,400-word piece. She is almost always right, and occasionally wrong in interesting ways.
A good feature should be honest about how little we know and unembarrassed about the parts we do. — Chen, in conversation with the newsroom