Editor at Atlantic moving to Vox.com

Swati Sharma, a managing editor of The Atlantic, will be the next editor-in-chief of Vox.com, the Vox Media site known for explanatory journalism and podcasts, in a changing of the guard at the pioneering digital outlet nearly three months after two of its founders left and its top editor announced her departure. Sharma, 34, is scheduled to start her new role next month. She will be taking over the site, which reaches nearly 30 million readers a month, from Lauren Williams, who is starting a nonprofit news outlet for Black communities called Capital B.

Williams also was a senior vice president at Vox, and the company is searching for someone to fill that position.

Before joining The Atlantic, Sharma was the Washington Post’s deputy general assignment editor and the digital editor of its international and national security departments. She started at the Boston Globe, where she coordinated coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing.