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Shuttered Sports desk acting editor Wilson joins features at the NY Times

October 17, 2023

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson, acting Sports editor at The New York Times, has been named deputy editor of “The Great Read,” which recommends to you one piece of narrative or essay writing from the Times.

Wilson boasts a four-decade career, including serving as editor of The Dallas Morning News for six years. In the 1990s, he was a staff writer at The Miami Herald’s Tropic magazine. He was also an enterprise editor at The Tampa Bay Times, where one of his writers won the Pulitzer Prize for “Feature Writing” and three others were finalists.

Wilson graduated from Tufts University.

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