NY Times hires Kamin to cover real estate

New York Times real estate editor Nikita Stewart sent out the following on Tuesday:

In August, The New York Times published Debra Kamin’s blockbuster exposé of sexual harassment within the National Realtors Association, the largest professional organization in the country. Two days later, its president resigned.

Debra’s doggedness and curiosity have helped drive the Real Estate desk’s growth in the past few years. She has written some of our most memorable stories: mommunes of single mothers who want to pool their resources and live together; the ghost town taken over by a circus; home appraisal discrimination against a Black couple in Maryland; and of course, her series on sexual harassment within the real estate industry, where women make up the majority of agents.

She has done all of this work as a freelancer, so we are pleased to announce that Debra will be the newest member of our reporting team.

She joins Anna Kodé, Ronda Kaysen and Rukmini Callimachi to deliver unexpected, delightful and forceful stories to readers.

Her strength is versatility: No story is too small to care or too big to tackle. We expect her to continue pursuing hard-hitting enterprise and joyous features. Already a frequent contributor to the Hunt column, Debra recently wrote our first celebrity Hunt, taking readers inside the Oscar winner Melissa Leo’s search for an Upper East Side apartment.

For Debra, who previously worked as a stringer in Tel Aviv for Variety, this is really a return. She was an editorial assistant in syndication at The New York Times.

Please officially welcome Debra back.