NY Times hires Washington Post’s Gold
New York Times Washington bureau chief Dick Stevenson sent out the following on Monday: This is an exciting one. Matea Gold, who as a managing editor, national editor and political investigations editor at The Washington Post has helped produce a steady stream of agenda-setting news reporting and high-impact accountability journalism, is joining The Times as Washington editor. […]
Economics columnist Krugman is retiring from NY Times
New York Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury sent out the following on Friday: I want to take you back to Jan. 2, 2000, a day when Y2K was in the rearview mirror and the dot-com bubble burst was just around the corner, when the Dow stood at a mighty 11,500 and a New York Times Opinion columnist […]
NY Times taps Stevenson as DC bureau chief
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Friday: A January 2010 front page analysis of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address noted that the president ended his address with a plaintive appeal to transcend partisanship. The Times reporter succinctly summed up the urgent challenge: “Is it possible to embrace complexity in […]
NY Times DC bureau chief Bumilller returning to reporting
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Thursday: Without a doubt, the biggest political story of the last decade has been the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the disruption to the political system that followed. Numerous desks around the newsroom have contributed to our superb coverage of Trump’s administration and […]
Tankersley becomes Berlin bureau chief at NY Times
Jim Tankersley has been named Berlin bureau chief for the New York Times. He has been based in its Washington bureau covering economic policy. Tankersley will move to Germany in early 2025. He joined The Times in 2017 to cover taxes and economic policy in the Washington bureau. He then moved to the White House team […]
NY Times taps Searcey to cover wealth and power
New York Times metro editor Nestor Ramos sent out the following on Friday: We are delighted to announce that Dionne Searcey is joining the Metro desk, where she will create a new beat focused on wealth in New York City and the broader region. She will be exploring the intersection of wealth and power, as well as […]
Leventhal departs WSJ for NY Times
New York Times video director Solana Pyne sent out the following on Thursday: Jamie Leventhal joins The Times as a video journalist on the Daily Video Team in New York, and will produce video packages and livestreams, and edit videos for social media. Jamie comes to us from The Wall Street Journal, where she produced […]
Bloomberg, NY Times and Washington Post win multiple Loeb Awads
eb awBloomberg News, The New York Times and The Washington Post won multiple Loeb Awards on Thursday. The following is a list of the journalists and media outlets that received 2024 Loeb Awards in the 12 competition categories: AUDIO CATEGORY “Spellcaster” – Bloomberg News and WonderyHannah Miller, Annie Massa, Max Chafkin, Chris Seigel, Russell Finch, Rachel B. Doyle, Mark Milian and Jeff Grocott BEAT […]
Bloomberg hires Popovich as senior editor
Bloomberg News has hired Nadja Popovich to be a senior editor on collaborative projects across data reporting and visualization. She will start on Monday. Popovich has spent the last seven years at The New York Times as a reporter and graphics editor covering climate change, energy and the environment. Before that, she was an interactive journalist at […]
The balancing act of covering the media industry
New York Times reporter Ben Mullin spoke with Josh Ocampo about how he covers the media industry. Here is an excerpt: What’s challenging about your beat? The media beat tends to be porous, unlike covering national security, for example. Information is less likely to stay concealed for a long period of time, so finding information and making it public […]