# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-bennet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:41:45.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-bennet"
name: "James Bennet"
slug: "james-bennet"
description: "James Douglas Bennet is an American journalist. He is a senior editor for The Economist, and writes the Lexington column for the magazine. He was editor-in-chief of The Atlantic from 2006 to 2016 and was the editorial page editor at The New York Times from May 2016 until his forced resignation in June 2020. He is the younger brother of U.S. Senator Michael Bennet."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Bennet_at_New_America.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1966-03-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.44
  momentum:             4.16451493913685
  historical:           5.404906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JBennet"
    handle:    "JBennet"
sources:
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    title: "James Bennet (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس بينيت (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس بينيت (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Bennet"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bennet"
    title: "James Bennet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bennet"
    title: "James Bennet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6129664"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump