Dry named Sunday biz editor at NY Times

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

I’m thrilled to announce that Rachel Dry will be our new Sunday Business editor.

Rachel joins us after a stint as deputy politics editor. She was primarily responsible for editing enterprise during one of the most chaotic elections in history. She rode the editing campaign bus to the end of the line, capping her stay in Politics with an incisive look at the role of Alvin the Beagle in the Georgia senate race.

Along the way she edited some of the Politics desk’s most memorable features. Those included stories about the war on Christmas in West Virginia, the diversity and impact among Latino voters, the ways the “Access Hollywood” video continued to define former President Trump’s politics, and how Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren learned to exercise power.

In her spare time, Rachel hosted Politics Live, a Times event series on the election.

“Rachel is one of the most original and creative thinkers I’ve ever worked with, always coming up with enterprise ideas and ways into the news that no one else thought of,” says politics editor Patrick Healy. “Political journalism can too often be chasing the same story as the pack, but when others zigged, Rachel zagged.”

Rachel joined The Times in 2015 and was a deputy Op-Ed editor and the editor of the Sunday Review before joining Politics. Prior to that, she spent nine years at The Washington Post as a deputy editor of the Outlook section and the features editor in Styles.

She worked at NPR’s “All Things Considered,” was a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan and wrote for The Harvard Crimson.

Rachel will be a deputy business editor. Please join us in a big virtual welcome to Rachel.