NY Times adds three to metro desk

The New York Times has hired three new reporters on its metro desk.

Ana Ley has been appointed transit reporter. She joins from The Virginian-Pilot, where she was a city government reporter. She has also reported for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun. She was also a business reporter and then served as a crime/public safety reporter at the San Antonio Express-News.

Ley graduated from the University of Texas-Pan American.

Karen Zraick has joined as a general assignment reporter. Previously, she worked as an editor on the international desk, on the briefings team and in news curation. She has also reported on breaking news and other topics at The Times.

She was also homepage editor at New York Daily News and has worked at The Associated Press.

Zraick graduated from Columbia University – Graduate School of Journalism.

Lola Fadulu also joins as a general assignment reporter. She comes from The Washington Post, where she was a metro reporter. She was previously also a fellow at The Times. She was also an assistant editor at The Atlantic and has interned at Quartz.

Fadulu has a B.A. from Amherst College and a M.A. from American University School of Communication.