A promotion and addition on the NY Times flex desk
The New York Times has promoted Valencia Prashad to the post of deputy editor for training and development, flex desk. In her new role, Prashad will “help reimagine how editor feedback and training works on the flex desk while overseeing the work of editors who come to embed with our team from around the newsroom.” […]
NY Times announces staff moves on metro
The following excerpt announcement was sent out from The New York Times metro editor Jim Dao, investigations editor, metro Kirsten Danis and deputy metro editor/politics Dean Chang: Nicole Hong has moved from covering courts and criminal justice to writing about the economy, including an emphasis on small businesses and technology companies. Before joining The Times, […]
NY Times names Szuchman director of audio
The New York Times has promoted Paula Szuchman to the post of director of audio. Recently, she was head of Opinion audio. In her new role, Szuchman will be managing the teams that make podcasts. She will also be working on news and enterprise stories and will help in finding her replacement to lead Opinion […]
NY Times biz reporter Abrams joining documentary unit
Jason Stallman of the New York Times sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: I have more good news about “The New York Times Presents,” our documentary series that has been renewed for a third season and recently received two Primetime Emmy nominations and four news and doc Emmy nominations: We’re bringing considerable reporting firepower to the operation […]
NY Times biz reporter named Knight Science fellow
Natasha Singer, a tech reporter for The New York Times, has been named a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT. Singer’s work focuses on the intersection of business, technology and society and has received multiple national awards. She is currently writing a book for W.W. Norton examining the meteoric rise of computer science education in […]
New roles for two NY Times staff members
The New York Times has appointed David Halbfinger as politics editor and Manny Fernandez as deputy politics editor. Most recently, Halbfinger was Jerusalem bureau chief. He has been with the Times for over 24 years, holding various roles, including reporter, Bronx reporter, Long Island bureau chief, Trenton bureau chief, columnist, Atlanta bureau chief, Hollywood correspondent, […]
NY Times hiring of Coy is for newsletter project
The New York Times hiring of longtime Bloomberg Businessweek economics editor Peter Coy is part of a strategy to launch a newsletter product, reports Steven Perlberg of Insider. Perlberg reports, “‘We will not be formally announcing Jay and Peter’s involvement nor sharing any other information on the newsletter project, for a few weeks, so we ask that you please […]
BusinessWeek econ editor Coy to join NY Times opinion section
Peter Coy, the longtime economics editor at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, has been hired by the New York Times opinion section. He will continue to write about economics. Coy covers a wide range of economic issues and also held the position of senior writer. Coy joined the magazine in December 1989 as telecommunications editor, then became technology […]
NY Times hires Wu as graphics editor
Ashley Wu is joining The New York Times as a graphics editor, newsletters. She comes from Apple, where she was based on the News Operations team, helping publishers integrate their work with the Apple News app. Before that, she served as an interactives designer and reporter at New York Magazine. Wu has also interned at […]
NY Times appoints Sobel CTO
The following announcement was sent out from The New York Times: The New York Times Company announced today that it is naming Jason Sobel as chief technology officer. Mr. Sobel, 40, will report directly to president and chief executive officer Meredith Kopit Levien. He will lead its Technology department when he joins The Times on […]
