New York Times Washington bureau chief Dick Stevenson sent out the following:
When we set out to find a new night editor for the Washington bureau, we knew that recruiting the right person was a daunting task. It’s a job that requires stamina, diplomacy, patience, judgment, editing skills and the capacity to shift on a moment’s notice from a discharge petition in the House to a plane crash to a bombing in Lebanon to a presidential pronouncement on social media. All long after most of us have gone home and often after we’ve gone to sleep.
We’ve found that person in Jodi Schneider.
Jodi is a veteran journalist with long experience in Washington. Over her career, she has worked at The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly, and most recently for 14 years at Bloomberg News. At Bloomberg, she oversaw coverage in the Washington bureau of Congress and tax policy, and then went to Japan and Hong Kong as an editor before returning to the United States as political news director for Bloomberg’s TV and radio operation. In all those roles, she has won plaudits as a collegial, knowledgeable and decisive journalist.
Jodi is a past president of SABEW, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. When in Asia, she was president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong. She is involved with the National Press Club in Washington and is secretary and chair of the Press Freedom Committee for the Overseas Press Club of America.
She grew up in Minnetonka, Minn., before getting a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
She’s a film buff, a member of three book clubs and is learning to play mahjong.
Jodi’s arrival means the start of a new chapter for Nathan Willis, who will work closely with Jodi over the next two months on a gradual transition. Before Nathan writes his final handover note sometime early in the new year, we will have much more to say about him, both his extraordinary run in the night editor role and his new position.
For now, please join us in welcoming Jodi. She starts Dec. 8.
– Dick Stevenson and Matea Gold
