NY Times names Cramer police bureau coverage chief
After a six-month stint on the New York Times travel desk, Maria Cramer is moving from Express to join Metro as police bureau coverage chief. Cramer joined the Times as a breaking news reporter in 2019 afterr serving at The Boston Globe. At the Globe, she covered police, public safety, federal courts and legal issues, […]
NY Times hires French as Opinion columnist
David French, a writer and legal scholar, will join The New York Times as an Opinion columnist. He begins on Jan. 30. Recently French helped launch The Dispatch, was a contributor at The Atlantic, and wrote for the National Review from 2015 to 2019. French spent most of his career as a practicing lawyer, with […]
NY Times hires Hvistendahl from The Intercept
New York Times international editor Phil Pan sent out the following on Monday: Investigative reporting is core to the mission of The Times and to our expanding journalistic efforts around the world. Earlier this year, we established our first overseas investigative reporting team, and today we are thrilled to announce another investment in this priority area: Mara Hvistendahl […]
What’s behind the NY Times delay in hiring a media columnist
Charlotte Klein of Vanity Fair looks at why the New York Times has yet to hire a media columnist to replace Ben Smith, who left last year. Klein writes, “I’m told people involved with hiring have solicited beat memos from journalists both inside and outside the paper, though it’s unclear what, if anything, has come of them. […]
Maheshwari to take on media beat at NY Times
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following on Friday: We’re thrilled to announce a new role for Sapna Maheshwari. Sapna will join our media group covering TikTok, emerging media and whatever other surprises come along. And we expect there to be lots of them. In a way this is a homecoming for Sapna, […]
Saslow to join NY Times as writer a large
The New York Times has hired Eli Saslow as a writer at large. He will begin in February. An excerpt from the announcement reads: Eli takes on some of the biggest and most sensitive issues in American life — gun violence, poverty, immigration, the opioid epidemic — and helps readers understand how the most vulnerable […]
NY Times announces new roles for Kingsbury and Cruzata
The following excerpt was sent out from The New York Times’ Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury: Now, we are excited to announce Alex Kingsbury will take over leadership of this important mandate in the newly created position of senior editor, international. We’ve expanded the previous role of World editor: Alex will coordinate Opinion’s international coverage across the report, […]
NY Times promotes three staff members in Video
The New York Times has appointed Sameen Amin to the post of deputy of the video department. Whitney Hurst will take on the role of executive producer of visual investigations and Malachy Browne has been named enterprise investigations director for visual investigations. An excerpt from the announcement reads: Sameen has won an Emmy, a […]
NY Times announces 11 staff updates in Audio
The following excerpt was sent out from The New York Times’ deputy managing editor, Audio Sam Dolnick: Shreeya Sinha has helped spearhead The Times’s audio ambitions as its editorial director. The team started with just her when we first began our work two years ago, and since then she has recruited and hired a […]
NY Times names Berehulak, Holston staff photographer correspondents
The following excerpt was sent out from The New York Times’ director of photography Meaghan Looram and operations manager and photographers’ chief Becky Lebowitz: We are thrilled to announce that two incredibly talented journalists are joining The Times as staff photographer correspondents. Daniel Berehulak, who calls Mexico City home, will continue to contribute to our […]
