NY Times Opinion adds to staff

The New York Times Opinion sent out the following excerpt announcement:

We are pleased to share that Alexandra March will be taking the role of deputy director, audience for Opinion. In the past four years she has become an integral part of the audience team, working across Opinion and with colleagues around the company. Prior to The Times, she worked at HuffPost as the newsletter editor and the engagement editor.

In the world of guest essays, we are excited to welcome Dan Martin. He will work with the team on commissioning and editing essays on national security and foreign policy, with a specific focus on Asia. He comes to The New York Times from Agence France-Presse, where he spent the last 15 years covering some of Asia’s biggest stories in positions that have included bureau chief in Shanghai and, before that, Malaysia.

He worked as an editor and reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal earlier in his career, which has been spent entirely in the Asia-Pacific region.

In Opinion audio, the “Sway” team welcomes Wyatt Orme to a full-time role. He joined in October 2021 as a temp producer and we’re happy he has decided to join us permanently. Most recently, Wyatt helped develop and launch two new podcasts for Fortune Media covering business and tech. Previously, he worked as a general assignment reporter for a public radio station in Colorado, covering immigration, health care, the cannabis industry and more.

He also spent a year reporting from East Africa, while on a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He started his career as an intern at NPR in Washington, D.C.