NY Times op-ed page hires Barkhorn as tech editor

Jim Dao, New York Times op-ed editor, sent out the following announcement on Thursday:

Hey Team.

Eleanor Barkhorn, the deputy managing editor of Vox, will be joining Op-Ed this month as a technology editor.

At Vox, Eleanor helped launch a consumer culture section, The Goods; a digital magazine, The Highlight; and a vertical devoted to newsy personal narratives, First Person. She was uniquely creative in the art of commissioning those narratives, getting a former N.F.L. punter to describe real-life locker room talk after the Access Hollywood tape surfaced; a former tour guide at a former plantation to recount the questions she was frequently asked about slavery; and a film director to depict a party given by a friend who was about to die by assisted suicide.

Before joining Vox right at its inception, Eleanor spent five years as an editor at The Atlantic. She began her journalism career as a reporter at The Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Miss., where she had spent two years working for Teach for America. A Manhattan native, she graduated from Princeton. She has also run several marathons, including Boston — meaning she is fast.

In Op-Ed, Eleanor will be working closely with Susan Fowler Rigetti to commission pieces that capture the manifold ways technology is transforming every corner of society, from family life to romantic relationships to the workplace.

She will be working from Washington, but making regular visits to New York. She starts on Oct. 14. Please join me in welcoming her.

Jim