Arlene Getz was named a Senior Editor of the magazine in 2006. Her primary responsibilities include serving as senior editorial manager of the Newsweek Web site, where she helps to oversee its daily domestic, foreign and political editorial coverage. Getz has played a key role in Newsweek.com's transition from an online publication of just a few bite-sized news nuggets a day to its current place as the Web's largest newsmagazine site. Her previous positions include serving as the deputy editor and foreign editor of the site, working to reinvent the international section and expanding the site's non-U.S. news coverage.

Her role includes commissioning and editing reports from Newsweek's global network of reporters, supervising the Web editorial staff and liaising with Newsweek's corporate partners. She also writes on political and international news and edited the site's award-winning online sections on the attacks on September 11, 2001; the Iraq war and the U.S. presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004.

Prior to joining Newsweek.MSNBC.com, Getz's career included an eight-year stint reporting for Newsweek magazine from South Africa, where she covered the struggle against apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela and the country's transition to democracy. She has also served as a foreign correspondent for Gemini News Service of London, the St. Petersburg Times of Florida and the Sydney Morning Herald of Australia. Getz has degrees in journalism and law, and was a Visiting Press Fellow at Cambridge University, England. Her honors include Front Page Awards in 2002 and 2003 for her online news coverage of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. In 2004, she received an online commentary award from the New York Association of Black Journalists and was awarded a Gatekeeper's Fellowship to Lebanon and Syria by the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins. She has also served as a judge for fellowship programs run by the International Reporting Project and the Overseas Press Club of America.