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NY Times taps Chao as a senior staff editor on Metro

Rebecca Chao

The New York Times has appointed Rebecca Chao as a senior staff editor on Metro. She joins from Flex, where she was embedded on more than a dozen desks, recently with the politics team. She has also done stints with International, Business, Science and the Virus briefing.

She begins her new role on April 11.

Prior to joining The Times, she was a senior editor at The WorldPost and a deputy web editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine.

She has also worked as a freelancer, with her work appearing in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, The New York Times Local, the World Policy Institute, and Asia Society.

Chao has a B.A. in English from Johns Hopkins and a master’s in international studies and public affairs from Columbia.

Mariam Ahmed

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