Rick Rojas, The New York Times’ Atlanta correspondent, is going to be opening a new bureau in Nashville, giving The Times a wider breadth across the South.
Rojas has now been with The Times for more than 6 years. Previously, Rojas was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He has also worked as a local reporter at The Washington Post and was a stringer at The Dallas Morning News/The New York Times.
He was also part of Times Student Journalism Institute where he worked with reporters and editors from The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Times regional papers at the paper’s training program for minority student journalists.
Rojas is a graduate of Texas A&M University.