Over the weekend, longtime Disher Zoe Pollock gave us all our third Dish marriage – to former Dishtern Will DiNovi. She’s now moving on to a career in social work, which tells you something about her character. Zoe was another staffer who began as an intern, rising to associate editor and having particular responsibility for the 
weekend coverage. Sometimes, I’m told that at the Dish, we can get a little fratty at times, especially with all the coverage of sex. If that’s the case, then Zoe was the chief fratboy of the team – her raw humor, dirty mind, and sense of hippie mischief made a big impact on what we cover and how we do it. She also helped me out with scheduling, press calls, and my ridiculously complex regimen of medications. We all loved and love her, and miss her every day. She’s the perfect millennial mixture of outward propriety, open mindedness and relentless practicality. And she worked incredibly hard every day.
The good news is that the Dish’s first ever exclusive-to-us intern, Jessie Roberts, has come back. At the Atlantic, Jessie all but created the recipes that feed the Dish every day. She set up our first RSS feed to ensure we miss nothing among the bloggers we have come to admire. She found new voices, and produced an amazing stream of web-gems – cultural, scientific, political – that came to define the mix we have. To have her back among the little team that produces this little blog is extremely exciting. She is already a one-woman machine of productivity and imagination.
I take a lot of pride in the fact that we’ve discovered all the talents that enrich this space. We’ve never hired any staffer from another publication or site. I believe in finding talent, not poaching it, and in rewarding and promoting the best and most dedicated. My reward has been a group of young bloggers of incredible loyalty, brilliance and dedication. If you want to encourage and support them, there’s one simple way you can: by [tinypass_offer text=”subscribing”]. That’s how we pay their salaries and health insurance.
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