NY Times announces global moves for two staff members

Norimitsu Onishi and Catherine Porter, correspondents at The New York Times, will be moving.

Onishi will be heading to Canada for his next assignment. Recently, he was a Paris correspondent. Previously, he served as bureau chief in Johannesburg, Jakarta, Tokyo and Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

He was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2015 for coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. In 2018, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

Onishi graduated from Princeton University.

Porter who has been serving as Toronto bureau chief since 2017 will move to Paris. She joined the Times from the Toronto Star, where she worked for 16 years. She also reported from Senegal, Guatemala, Cuba and Haiti.

She was part of a Times team that won the Polk award for work from Haiti and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also won two National Newspaper Awards in Canada.

Porter received a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a master’s degree from York University.