Londoño becomes Minnesota correspondent at the NY Times

The following was sent out from The New York Times’ national editor Jia Lynn Yang and deputy national editor Monica Davey:

We are thrilled to announce that Ernesto Londoño will join the National staff this year as a correspondent based in Minnesota.

As part of the Midwest team, which covers 11 states in the middle of the country, Ernesto will work closely with our Chicago-based bureau chief, Julie Bosman, and Mitch Smith, a Midwest-based correspondent, to deepen our coverage of a region that has been extremely newsy and at the forefront of major political and cultural shifts in recent years.

In addition to regional news coverage, Ernesto will focus on drug use and counternarcotics policy in America. Ernesto has been immersed in this subject the past year. In partnership with The Times, he is working on a book about psychedelics and mental health titled, “Trippy: Unearthing the Past, Perils and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics.”

Ernesto joined The Times in 2014 as an editorial writer. In 2017, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he was the newspaper’s Brazil bureau chief from 2017 to early 2022, covering a region of five countries in the southern cone of South America. Before coming to The Times, he spent nine years at The Washington Post where his assignments included covering the Pentagon, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and local news.

Ernesto will join the Midwest team on February 27.