New York Times political editor David Halbfinger sent out the following on Monday:
I’m delighted to announce that Miguel Gonzalez, a gifted and experienced editor who spent 25 years at The Wall Street Journal, most recently overseeing its Politics and Policy newsletter, is joining The Times as day editor for the Politics desk.
Miguel is a natural for this new role, in which he will divide his time, handling breaking news stories and anchoring our live-news platforms in the morning and then editing Jess Bidgood’s evening On Politics newsletter. He’ll also manage some of our reporters, working out of the Washington bureau.
At The Journal, Miguel more than doubled his newsletter’s subscriber base, after three years on the paper’s politics team overseeing coverage of immigration and health policy. He moved to Washington in 2016 from Hong Kong, where he had spent 15 years in a variety of roles, including Asia transportation editor, overseeing coverage of auto makers, airlines and logistics companies. Early in his career, he was part of the team that put out The Journal on Sept. 12, 2001.
The son of a letter carrier, Miguel was born in Brooklyn and grew up mostly on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, except for brief stints in Newark and South Florida. He attended Regis High School and then Georgetown University, where he majored in American government and dreamed of working in Washington.
Please welcome him. He starts today!
