The New York Times has hired Rest of World staffer Joanne Lee as an art director, visuals.
She will serve as the lead designer on the social visuals team, producing social-first visual storytelling, innovating on design systems across a range of on- and off-platform surfaces and mentoring colleagues across the newsroom on tools, production and editorial workflows.
Prior to joining The Times, Lee was a visual and UX designer at Rest of World, a nonprofit tech news publication, working on editorial designs that won the 2024 National Magazine Award for Design presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Previously, she was at The Washington Post, where for six years she was a senior designer on the news design team.
Born in Auburn, Alabama, and raised between Atlanta and Seoul, Lee graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
