LA Times wants to tap NY Times’ Baquet for top job
After Norm Pearlstine’s decision to step down as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, the race to find a replacement accelerated. The search is underway at the L.A. Times with the publication eyeing New York Times’ current executive editor Dean Baquet as one of the top candidates, reports Media Ink. Baquet, who will reach […]
Ortiz joins investigations at New York Times
Aimee Ortiz, who wrote numerous breaking news stories ranging from local news to international on the Express desk since last year, will now be joining the Investigations desk as the New York Times’ newest reporter administering the paper’s tip line. She will be working on expanding the Times’ ambitions to make the already prolific resource […]
Boston Globe’s Ramos joins NY Times Metro desk as assistant editor
The New York Times associate managing editor and Metro editor Cliff Levy with assistant managing editor Carolyn Ryan sent out the following excerpt announcement: Last year, Nestor Ramos spent many months exploring the impact of climate change on a beloved part of our country, Cape Cod. “Perfect summers have grown hotter and muggier,” he later […]
Robertson named media reporter at NY Times
Katie Robertson has been named a media reporter at The New York Times. Previously, she held the post of senior staff editor, business desk at the Times. Robertson has been with the Times for more than 2 years, joining as an assistant editor on the news desk. She has also worked for Bloomberg as a […]
NY Times’ Dealbook hires Livni to cover politics, law from DC
The New York Times’ Dealbook has hired Ephrat Livni to cover politics, policy and law from the paper’s Washington bureau. Livni was a senior law and politics reporter at Quartz, most notably covering the Supreme Court and impeachment proceedings. She also contributed culture, science, and technology stories from 2016 to 2020. As a public defender, Livni represented […]
NY Times introduces new podcast “Sway” with Swisher
The New York Times debuts “Sway,” a new interview podcast hosted by Kara Swisher, “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist,” according to New York magazine. Swisher will be covering Washington, Hollywood, and the world, investigating power. In her debut podcast, Swisher will bring listeners smart, substantive, in-depth, and revealing conversations with fascinating people, exposing […]
NY Times invests in U.K.-based Trint
The New York Times Company has invested in London-based speech-to-text transcription platform Trint, as per reports. The funding from this Series A Acceleration Round includes additional investment from existing and new individual private investors, including institutional investment from The Associated Press and TechNexus in 2019. The U.K. transcription software tool also received early funding from […]
Kweku joins New York Times Opinion as politics editor
New York Times Opinion has hired Ezekiel Kweku as its new politics editor. His new role begins remotely on Sept. 21. Kweku joins the Times from New York Magazine where he held the post of senior editor. He also helped conceive and guide the relaunch of Intelligencer, the magazine’s politics vertical. Before that, he was […]
Ray joins NY Times as graphics/multimedia editor
Arielle Ray has joined New York Times Video as a graphics/multimedia editor and will be helping out the visual investigations team. Recently, Ray was at Quartz for more than three years, joining as a video journalist. Later on, she was promoted to the post of art director. She has also worked as an adjunct instructor […]
Kwong hired as producer for Kara Swisher’s new podcast
Matt Kwong has been hired by New York Times Opinion as a producer for technology journalist Kara Swisher’s upcoming podcast. He previously worked at NPR, where he was an editor and producer for “Morning Edition” and the daily news podcast “Up First.” Recently, he produced this piece for NPR on the 50th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s […]
