CNN Business reporter Benveniste to join NY Times games team

Alexis Benveniste will be joining The New York Times as a staff writer on the games team covering stories about community, culture, words, and games.

Currently, she is a business writer at CNN, focusing on the economy, tech, media, COVID-19 and climate change. Before that, she served as a business editor. She has also previously served as a reporter and social news editor at Bloomberg.

She was also a reporter and producer at the New York Post and has freelanced for Teen Vogue.

Benveniste has a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University at Bloomington.