NY Times hires Stevens to be deputy tech editor

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Wednesday: We’re delighted to announce that Laura Stevens is joining The Times as a deputy technology editor. Laura joins us from The Washington Post, where she was most recently technology industry editor, helping to guide coverage of some of the biggest tech companies, including Amazon, […]

Malone named new NY Times Sunday biz editor

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following: I’m thrilled to announce that Noreen Malone has joined Business as Sunday Business editor. Noreen comes to us from Style, where she was enterprise editor. Before joining The Times, she hosted Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast. Noreen was features editor and then editorial director at New York […]

Dreier of NY Times wins WERT Prize for migrant child labor coverage

Hannah Dreier, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, won the WERT Global Prize for outstanding business reporting by a woman for “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.” and related stories exposing a migrant child labor scandal involving some of the world’s largest corporations. The award is given by […]

Parsons and Wong become deputy Asia editors for NY Times

New York Times international editor Phil Pan sent out the following: They are two of the most accomplished beat editors you’ll find at The Times, pioneers who moved from Hong Kong and helped establish the Seoul newsroom. Now, Andy Parsons and Gillian Wong have been promoted to be deputy Asia editors, taking on added responsibility across the […]

NY Times hires STAT senior news editor Thielking

Lori Leibovich, the editor of Well at The New York Times, sent out the following on Thursday: For months, we’ve been searching for a gifted editor to lead Well’s daily news coverage and work with our reporters to further shape our news strategy. We’ve found that person in Megan Thielking. Megan is joining us from […]

NY Times opposes restrictions in Bankman-Fried case

The New York Times pushed back against restrictions in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial that would limit participants’ ability to speak to the press, reports Andre Beganski of Decrypt. Beganski repors, “In a letter addressed to U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, the newspaper advocated for the public’s right to know about a scandal that’s ‘stripped billions of […]

NY Times taps Romero for Mexico City

New York Times international editor Phil Pan sent out the following: As the Mexico City bureau continues to pursue ambitious stories and expansive coverage of the region, we’re thrilled to announce that Simon Romero will be joining the team as a correspondent. Working alongside Natalie Kitroeff and Maria Abi-Habib, Simon will tackle the region’s most crucial issues, including migration, […]

NY Times’ ‘Ezra Klein Show’ now on public radio vis PRX

The following excerpt was sent out from The New York Times: The New York Times and public media organization PRX today announced a partnership to bring “The Ezra Klein Show” to public radio airwaves. Produced by The New York Times with public radio distribution from PRX, “The Ezra Klein Show” will be available to stations […]

NY Times welcomes back Fuhs as senior staff editor, print hub

Denise Fuhs has rejoined The New York Times as a senior staff writer on the print hub. Her most recent post was that of local news editor/managing editor at The Press of Atlantic City from February 2020 to November 2022. Previously, Fuhs worked at the Times from January 2000 to November 2017. During this time, […]

NY Times taps Johnstone to serve as news director, politics

Elizabeth Johnstone will join The New York Times politics desk as its first news director. She begins July 31. Johnstone joins from NBC News Digital, where she served as managing editor for politics and a senior digital politics editor overseeing the network’s entire digital politics team. She also held the posts of deputy politics editor […]