Pui-Wing Tam has been named business editor at The New York Times.
Tam, who has bene deputy business editor, replaces Ellen Pollock, who held the position for a decade.
In an email to the staff, executive editor Joe Kahn wrote, “She’s as fierce a journalist and editor as she is deeply respected by her team and colleagues across the newsroom. We’re thrilled to welcome her to New York after more than two decades on the West Coast.”
Tam has also been the technology editor at The Times and is based in San Francisco.
She was previously U.S. tech editor at Bloomberg News, and prior to that was at The Wall Street Journal for 18 years as a reporter in Hong Kong and New York, and in San Francisco as a tech correspondent and editor.
She was born in Hong Kong, raised in Tokyo, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University and a master’s from Columbia University Journalism School.
In 1998 she was part of a team of Journal reporters that won an Overseas Press Club Award for coverage of the Asian financial crisis, and she was twice named to the TJFR “Top 30 under 30.”
Wrote Kahn: “She is a magnet for talent and has guided major enterprise, delivered world-beating scoops and built a tremendous culture around her. Now, she will turn her many skills to guiding the Business desk’s next chapter, ensuring its journalism sings in a variety of formats.”
