NY Times names three David Carr fellows

The New York Times announced Tuesday that three journalists have been awarded the David Carr Fellowship, named in honor of The Times’s late media columnist lauded for his visionary and uncompromising work.

Originally conceived as a two-year fellowship for one recipient at a time, the newsroom decided to name three exceptional journalists from among 600 applicants for its inaugural award.

The Times’s 2016 David Carr Fellows are John Herrman, co-editor of The Awl; Amanda Hess, a staff writer at Slate; and Greg Howard, a staff writer at Deadspin.

The fellows will spend two years in The Times’s newsroom covering the dynamic intersection of technology, media, culture and race using a mix of engaging approaches to storytelling and news reportage.  The Carr Fellowship was created to bring diverse voices into The Times and to nurture a new generation of Times journalists.

Herrman, 28, has covered the Internet and technology at Gizmodo, Popular Mechanics and BuzzFeed.  He joined The Awl as co-editor two years ago.  He is from Cary, North Carolina.

Hess, 30, covered gender, the Internet and society for the Washington City Paper, TBD.com and Good Magazine, and has written for many other publications.  She joined Slate in 2014, where she writes a reported column about the human side of Internet culture.  She is from Phoenix, Arizona.

Howard, 27, has worked at the Dallas Observer and The Village Voice.  He has written about race and sports at Deadspin since 2013.  He is from Bowie, Maryland.

The fellows will join The Times’s newsroom on March 15.  Herrman will write for The Times’s Media and Business Day desks, Hess will write for Culture, and Howard will write for The New York Times Magazine and other desks.