The following excerpt was sent out by The New York Times Opinion:
Louise Loftus is being promoted and will be working on commissioning and editing guest essays in addition to her work with the audience team. Louise has worked as a member of the international team in Times Opinion for just over a decade — from Paris, Hong Kong, London and, since 2018, Scotland. Louise began as a web and later audience editor, ensuring that our essays reach and resonate with U.S. and international readers.
Before joining Opinion, Lou was a researcher and fact checker at the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years.
Emefa Agawu joins “The Ezra Klein Show” as a researcher. Most recently, Emefa was a fellow in The Washington Post’s Opinions section, where she also wrote editorials as a member of the paper’s editorial board. At The Post, Emefa produced a multimedia series on public safety for which she won the 2022 Burl Osborne Editorial and Opinion Award.
Previously, Emefa worked on tech policy at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology and New America. She holds a B.A. in political science from Yale College and an M.Phil. in comparative government from the University of Oxford.