About Us
What is The Postrider?
The Postrider covers politics and pop culture through a pragmatic and incremental approach. We’ve made our mark with content that eschews the easy eye-grabbing headlines that you see across even the most reputable outlets in the world and we actively opt to calibrate readers’ expectations against easy and unrealistic takes. Though it doesn’t sound exciting, it is exactly this kind of bottom-up narrative approach that make our election forecasts consistently beat out the models of heavy-hitters like FiveThirtyEight and The Economist and helped us build a reputation for responsible and down-to-earth analysis.
That in mind, you’ll find all kinds of content from our talented and knowledgeable staff and contributors, ranging from election forecasts, album reviews, film critiques, and podcasts for all of the above. Hopefully some of that piques your interest.
Who is The Postrider?
Scroll down below to learn about our editors and co-founders. But most importantly know that you can be The Postrider as well! We’re open to submissions from anybody and everybody who has something interesting to say in an interesting way. Unfortunately, this is a volunteer effort, so we cannot pay contributors (yet). But if you’d like to write something for us and have it posted for the world to see, drop us a line at contact@thepostrider.com.
The Team
Michael Lovito
Editor-in-Chief
Culture Editor
editor@thepostrider.com
Michael has been the Editor-in-Chief of The Postrider since it was launched in 2018. He previously contributed articles to WVAU.org (where he also hosted Truth, Justice, and the American Way with Michael Lovito and served as Music Director), The District, and Sing Along Psalms, a personal music blog. His work has appeared in Salon, The Righting, Brooklyn Magazine, the Morristown Green, and Pavement Pieces. Michael holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from American University and a Master of Arts in Magazine Journalism and Digital Storytelling from New York University.
Lars Emerson
CEO
Politics Editor
ceo@thepostrider.com
Lars worked in new media journalism and has a background in congressional journalism and economics and political science with an emphasis in Congress, financial crises, labor economics, and monetary policy. He’s worked for The Economist, CQ Roll Call, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from American University and is currently pursuing a law degree from the same, where he serves on the American University Law Review. When not working to keep the site’s lights on, Lars can be found running in the DC humidity. He hopes one day to leave his vast estate of future dues from this website to his cat, Dakota.
Michael Bartoldus
Director of Technology
tech@thepostrider.com
A self-taught full stack web developer with a passion for linguistics, Michael regularly writes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. In his free time, he enjoys messing with Deno and TypeScript. He strives for a pragmatic synthesis of relevant paradigms and patiently awaits an end to the holy wars between object-oriented programming and functional programming.
Advisor
Dave Hunke is the former CEO and Publisher of USA Today with over 40 years of publishing experience in the news and media business. In Dave’s role at USA Today/Gannett he oversaw the transition of USA Today to its full digital model. Dave has served in leadership positions on numerous community boards across the USA, notably as board member of DC based The Potomac Riverkeeper Network where he serves as chair of its JEDI committee. In addition, Dave serves as chief strategy advisor and board member at Digerati, Inc, a technology and software firm headquartered in Detroit. Dave and his wife Janet live in Arlington, Virginia.
When is The Postrider?
The Postrider was founded in July of 2018 and still publishes content to this day.
Where is The Postrider?
At ThePostrider.com, of course! Our founders and editors have roots in DC, New York City, Colorado, New Jersey, and Las Vegas.
Why is The Postrider?
We were founded by a group of journalism-adjacent American University alumni with the aim of providing informative, insightful, and entertaining commentary on pop culture, politics, history, and current events. We rely on a mix of traditional journalistic practices and new media experience to create and sponsor pieces, podcasts, and other content for a range of audiences that drive home our pragmatic approach to the topics we’re passionate about. You can read about our editorial standards to see what we hold ourselves to and how we strive to deliver content that is accurate, fair, and well-reported. The Postrider is enthusiastic about launching a new generation of coverage for music, politics, and more while working with passionate creators across a range of mediums and interests.
And we’re called The Postrider because, if you really care about something, if you’re really enthusiastic about it, you don’t want to talk about it at a tweet or text length. You want a nice, long, considerate write up — the kind you might find in a letter. So let our website act as a courier for that kind of thoughtful writing and modern content with a healthy respect for journalistic tradition. Thanks to advances in modern technology, we won’t have to ride a big ol’ horse across miles of dusty desert to do so. Instead, we can serve up our work from the comfort of our own homes, straight into the comfort of your own home.
It’s not quite as impressive as riding for the Pony Express, but we hope you appreciate the hard work and enthusiasm that goes into The Postrider. Happy reading, everyone.
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Reach out to us at contact@thepostrider.com