NYT biz writer headed for Baghdad

Tim Arango, a business reporter at the New York Times, will become the paper’s Baghdad bureau chief next year, reports Hamilton Nolan of Gawker.

Nolan writes, “Arango tells us: ‘looks like I’ll be going back as bureau chief some time in the late-feb-early-march timeframe.’ Some believe that reporting from Iraq is even more heroic than being a media reporter, though we of course would argue strenuously against that assertion.”

Before joining the Times, Arango worked for Fortune and the business desk of the New York Post. He also did a stint at TheStreet.com.

Arango joined the Times in December 2007. When he was at Fortune, he wrote a cover story on Fox Business Network.