“It’s Gotta Grow to Stay Alive”: Inside Noah Shachtman’s Raucous Reinvention of Rolling Stone

Noah Shachtman was up in Vermont last year, “thinking about just quitting,” when Gus Wenner rang with an opportunity. “I was burnt out after seven-plus years of running the insane asylum—I mean that in the best possible way—that is the Daily Beast,” he told me. But the chance to take the reins of Rolling Stone quickly recharged him. “I couldn’t sleep that night,” he recalled. “I was so excited.” Such excitement was palpable on a recent visit to Rolling Stone’s Manhattan headquarters, as Shachtman invited me to stick around while he met rising pop star Tai Verdes, who was appearing… Read Full Article