Mohamed Hassan, a platform editor at The Wall Street Journal, has been hired as a staff editor at The New York Times.
He curated the home pages at The Journal, where he also wrote alerts, collaborated with visual editors and contributed to workflow improvements.
Before that he was a home page editor at The New York Post, where he developed a skill for writing pun-filled headlines. He started his career as a freelance reporter for NBC News.
Hassan is a graduate of New York University.
