NY Times hires Gan as senior staff editor

Vicky Gan, copy chief at Slate, will join The New York Times Flexible Editing desk as a senior staff editor. Gan begins on Sept. 6.

Gan spent four years at Slate, also serving as a copy editor and web editor. Before that, she was a copy editor in health policy research at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. There, she co-created the organization’s first podcast, “Critical Value.”

She interned at Smithsonian, Washingtonian and New York magazines and was an Atlantic Media editorial fellow at CityLab.

Gan has a B.A. from Princeton University.