David A. Plotz[2] (born January 31, 1970)[3] is an American journalist and former CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration.

[4] A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014,[5] succeeding Jacob Weisberg.

Plotz has written for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, New Republic, The Washington Post, Business Insider, and GQ.

He appears on the weekly Slate Political Gabfest podcast with John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon.

[11] He is the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank (2005) about the Repository for Germinal Choice, and Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned when I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (2009), based on his "Blogging the Bible"[12] series from Slate.com.