NY Times biz desk shuffles some assignments

Adrienne Carter, our international business editor for the past two years, is moving to London, where she will continue in the same role in a much friendlier time zone environment. Adrienne oversees correspondents across the globe, with London and Hong Kong as the main hubs. By being posted in London, Adrienne will be better poised to help lead the European report in real-time, while also avoiding some of those very late and very early phone calls with Hong Kong editors and reporters. She will move in the spring.

Conor Dougherty is joining our economics team as a reporter based in San Francisco. Since coming to The Times some 18 months ago, Conor has been a tech reporter covering Google and much more (one of my favorites: His profile of a professional video gamer in suburban Los Angeles). At The Wall Street Journal, Conor had covered real estate, housing and urban development from San Francisco, and also spent five years in New York with the paper’s economics group. His new beat will be heavily focused on the tech economy, and he’ll also use his perch on the West Coast to dive into agriculture, housing, water, infrastructure and other themes central to the American economic story.

Mike Isaac is moving next month to San Francisco to take up the social media beat, including Facebook and Twitter, part of a broader shuffle of tech beats. Mike has been based in New York since joining the tech team in the summer of 2014, and has quickly become a must-read on the web, in print, across social media – just about everywhere and in every form of storytelling (who can bear to miss an installment of the weekly “Farhad and Mike” exchange?).

Tim Race, our European business editor, is winding down a distinguished four-year stint as both the director of our European business and economics report and the integrator-in-chief of the former IHT staff with The Times, first in Paris and then in London. Tim has been at ground zero during Europe’s rocky recovery from the sovereign debt crisis, and the ongoing banking and financial crisis in Greece. He will be returning to New York in the summer.