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Ferré-Sadurní to cover migrant influx for New York Times

Luis Ferré-Sadurní

New York Times metro editor Nestor Ramos sent out the following on Wednesday:

After spending three whirlwind days in Puerto Rico looking for Senator Robert Menendez at what was described as an “ill-timed and ill-fated fund-raiser,” Luis Ferré-Sadurní found himself jetting off to another far-flung Metro assignment: Gov. Kathy Hochul was heading to Israel the very next day.

One day, you’re counting uneaten jumbo shrimp and empty seats, the next day you’re in an armored van. All in a week’s work for an Albany bureau chief? Not typically.

But those assignments demonstrated Luis’s range and our trust in sending him across various hemispheres to chronicle whatever comes his way — including, as it turned out, the death of the governor’s father during the Israel trip. It also illustrates why it makes sense to give Luis a new challenge, and we are pleased to announce that he is moving onto a new beat, overseeing what is perhaps New York’s most pressing challenge, the continuing influx of migrants.

In his roughly four years covering Albany, with the last two spent leading our Capitol bureau, Luis has chronicled the fall of Andrew Cuomo, the rise of Ms. Hochul, and the resignation of her first lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin. He has displayed a sharp eye for legislative actions of general reader interest, from pet-store sales to the fight over legalizing to-go drinks and banning menthol cigarettes. And he has authoritatively covered the essential issues in Albany, from bail reform to housinggun laws to migrants.

Luis was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where at the age of 12 he got his first journalism job: helping to run the printing press at his family’s newspaper, El Nuevo Día, in San Juan. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania before joining The Times as a James Reston reporting fellow in 2017. He later became a general assignment, and then housing, reporter on Metro.

Please join us in congratulating him.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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