NY Times announces two staff changes

The following excerpt was sent out from The New York Times’ Sia Michel, Michael Cooper, Alicia DeSantis, David Malitz and Barbara Chai:

We are delighted to announce two staff changes. Robin Pogrebin is moving to the Los Angeles bureau in order to cover art, architecture, music, theater and cultural institutions in California, while Adam Nagourney is returning to the Politics team to help cover the 2024 presidential campaign.

Adam has written a string of memorable stories for Culture, covering Los Angeles’s museum building boom by taking us behind the scenes at the long-delayed Lucas Museum, exploring the transformation of the Hammer Museum and watching the growth of the new Academy Museum. He played a key role in our coverage of the recent challenges faced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and profiled the elusive David Geffen as he became one of America’s biggest arts philanthropists.

To cover the West Coast, Robin will move to the Los Angeles bureau in September, where she will report on the worlds of art, architecture, music, theater and cultural institutions. Her coverage will span breaking news, enterprise, investigations, profiles and newsy West Coast features of national and international interest. As before, she will lend her deep expertise and sourcing to big stories about national and New York culture as needed.

Please join us in congratulating Robin and Adam on their new roles.

– Sia Michel, Michael Cooper, Alicia DeSantis, David Malitz and Barbara Chai