List of The New York Times employees

This is a list of former and current New York Times employees, reporters, and columnists.

Current

Publisher

• Arthur Gregg Sulzberger (2018–present)[1][2]

Masthead

List of masthead employees as of August 2020:[3]

News Dean Baquet, executive editor Joseph Kahn, managing editor Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy managing editor Steve Duenes, deputy managing editor Matthew Purdy, deputy managing editor Elisabeth Bumiller, assistant managing editor Sam Dolnick, assistant managing editor Monica Drake, assistant managing editor Matt Ericson, assistant managing editor [4] Alison Mitchell, assistant managing editor Carolyn Ryan, assistant managing editor Sam Sifton, assistant managing editor Michael Slackman, assistant managing editor

Editorial Kathleen Kingsbury, editorial page editor

Business Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company[5] Mark Thompson, chief executive officer Roland A. Caputo, chief financial officer[6] Meredith Kopit Levien, chief operating officer[7][8] Diane Brayton, general counsel and secretary; Interim Executive V.P., Talent and Inclusion William T. Bardeen, chief strategy officer R. Anthony Benten, chief accounting officer, treasurer Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, president, international

Department heads

• Marc Lacey, national editor
• Michael Slackman, international editor
• Jason Stallman, sports editor
• Ellen Pollock, business editor[9]
• Clifford Levy, metro editor
• Patrick Healy, Politics editor
• Choire Sicha, Styles editor[10]
• Sia Michel, Deputy Culture Editor
• Jake Silverstein, Arts and Leisure Editor
• Bill McDonald, obituaries editor
• Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor
• Jake Silverstein, editor, The New York Times Magazine
• Pamela Paul, editor, The New York Times Book Review
• Hanya Yanagihara, editor, T: The New York Times Style Magazine[11]

Bureau chiefs

Domestic bureaus Richard Fausset, Atlanta Katharine Q. Seelye, Boston Monica Davey, Chicago Jack Healy, Denver Manny Fernandez, Houston John Eligon, Kansas City Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles Lizette Alvarez, Miami Rick Rojas, Nashville Campbell Robertson, New Orleans Fernanda Santos, Phoenix Thomas Fuller, San Francisco Kirk Johnson, Seattle Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington

Foreign bureaus Tim Arango, Baghdad Jane Perlez, Beijing Anne Barnard, Beirut Alison Smale, Berlin Declan Walsh, Cairo Nicholas Casey, Caracas Dionne Searcey, Dakar Tim Arango, Istanbul Rod Nordland, Kabul David Halbfinger, Jerusalem Norimitsu Onishi, Johannesburg Steven Erlanger, London (chief diplomatic correspondent) Ellen Barry, London (chief international correspondent)

Foreign bureaus (cont.) Nicholas Casey, Madrid Azam Ahmed, Mexico City Andrew Higgins, Moscow Jeffrey Gettleman, New Delhi Ian Austen, Ottawa Alissa J. Rubin, Paris Ernesto Londoño, Rio de Janeiro Jason Horowitz, Rome Keith Bradsher, Shanghai Damien Cave, Sydney Thomas Erdbrink, Tehran Motoko Rich, Tokyo Catherine Porter, Toronto Somini Sengupta, United Nations Rick Lyman, Warsaw

Op-ed columnists

Opinion columnists as of September 2020:[12]

• Charles M. Blow
• Jamelle Bouie
• David Brooks
• Frank Bruni
• Roger Cohen
• Gail Collins
• Ross Douthat
• Maureen Dowd
• Thomas L. Friedman
• Michelle Goldberg
• Nicholas Kristof
• Paul Krugman
• Farhad Manjoo
• Jennifer Senior
• Bret Stephens[13]

Other personnel

• Eric Asimov, chief wine critic
• Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent
• Jo Becker, investigative reporter
• Ben Brantley, theater critic[14]
• Manohla Dargis, film critic
• Jim Dwyer, "About New York" columnist
• Thomas Feyer, letters editor
• Michael R. Gordon, chief military correspondent, winner of George Polk Award
• Jesse Green, theater critic[14]
• Michael M. Grynbaum, media correspondent
• Maggie Haberman, White House reporter
• Nicholas Fandos, Congress reporter
• Stephen Holden, film critic
• Neil Irwin, senior economic correspondent
• Lara Jakes, diplomatic correspondent
• George Johnson, science reporter
• Dwight Garner, book critic
• Michiko Kakutani, book reviewer
• Christine Kay, enterprise consultant[15]
• Florence Finch Kelly, book reviewer
• Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic
• John Leland, popular culture, national
• Mark Mazzetti, National security correspondent
• Dennis Overbye, former deputy science editor, currently a science reporter
• Philip P. Pan, Asia editor
• Jon Pareles, pop music critic
• Bill Pennington, "On Par" columnist and sports reporter
• James Risen, national security correspondent
• David E. Sanger, Washington correspondent
• Charlie Savage, legal affairs correspondent
• A. O. Scott, film critic
• Robert B. Semple, Jr., associate editor, Times editorial page, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Scott Shane, national security correspondent
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers & acquisitions correspondent
• Neil Strauss, freelance music writer
• Anthony Tommasini, chief music critic
• David C. Unger, foreign affairs editorial writer
• Pete Wells, restaurant critic
• Sheryl WuDunn, industry and international business editor and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Douglas Martin (reporter), obituaries
• Rory Smith, chief soccer correspondent

Former

Publishers

• George Jones (1851-1891)
• George F. Spinney (1893-1896)
• Adolph Ochs (1896-1935)
• Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1935-1961)
• Orvil Dryfoos (1961-1963)
• Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger (1963-1992)
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (1992-2017)

Editor in Chief

• Henry Jarvis Raymond (1851-1869)
• Charles Ransom Miller (1883-1922)

Executive editors

(position created in 1964 superseding Managing Editor as top news official)

• Turner Catledge (1964–1968)
• James Reston (1968–1969)
• position vacant (1969–1976)
• A. M. Rosenthal (1977–1986)
• Max Frankel (1986–1994)
• Joseph Lelyveld (1994–2001) and briefly in 2003
• Howell Raines (2001–2003)
• Bill Keller (2003–2011)
• Jill Abramson (2011–2014)
• Dean Baquet (2014–)

Managing editors

• George F. Spinney (1889-1893)

• Carr Van Anda (1904-1932)
• Edwin Leland James (1932-1951)
• Turner Catledge (1952-1964)
• Clifton Daniel (1964-1968)
• A. M. Rosenthal (1968-1977)
• Seymour Topping (1977-1986)
• Arthur Gelb (1986-1989)
• Joseph Lelyveld (1990-1994)
• Gene Roberts (1994-1997)

Editorial page editors

Titled Editor-in-Chief or Editor until retirement of Merz but never had authority over news pages.[16]

• Rollo Ogden (1922-1937)
• John Huston Finley (1937-1938)
• Charles Merz (1938-1961)[17]
• John Bertram Oakes (1961-1976)
• Max Frankel (1977-1986)
• Jack Rosenthal (1986-1993)
• Howell Raines (1993-2001)
• Gail Collins (2001-2006)
• Andrew Rosenthal (2007-2016)

Other former personnel

• Brooks Atkinson, theater critic
• Matt Bai, news analyst and "Political Times" columnist
• Clive Barnes, dance and theater critic
• Jayson Blair, reporter (1999–2003); resigned over plagiarism and fabrications[18]
• Raymond Bonner, civil war reporter in El Salvador; resigned in protest
• Don Hogan Charles, photographer[19]
• Adam Clymer, former correspondent in Washington, D.C.
• William G. Connolly, co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
• Bill Cunningham, fashion photographer
• Kurt Eichenwald, business reporter
• Janet Elder, deputy managing editor (died 2017)
• Leonard P. Forman, chief financial officer (2001-2007)
• James M. Follo, chief financial officer (2007-2018)
• Vanessa Friedman, fashion critic
• Linda Greenhouse, U.S. Supreme Court correspondent, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Trish Hall, masthead editor overseeing six feature sections (2010–2011), op-ed editor (2011–2015), and senior editor (2015–2017)
• Cathy Horyn, fashion critic (1998–2014)
• Bernard Holland, music critic (1981–1994), chief music critic (1995–2008)
• Walter Kerr, theater critic
• Anna Kisselgoff, dance critic from 1968, chief dance critic (1977-2005)
• Arthur Krock, Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent and columnist
• Trymaine Lee, Harlem beat reporter (2006–2011)
• Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, book reviewer
• Eric Lichtblau, legal affairs reporter
• Hugo Lindgren, editor, The New York Times Magazine (2010–2013)
• Judith Miller, reporter, jailed for refusing to reveal sources
• Rajiv Pant, chief technology officer (2011-2015)[20]
• Dith Pran, photojournalist during Cambodian war
• Harrison Salisbury, Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award winner
• William E. Sauro, staff photographer. Won George Polk Award 1965.
• Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award winner; resigned in protest.
• Allan M. Siegal, co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
• Louis Silverstein, design director
• Hedrick Smith, correspondent and bureau chief
• Barbara Strauch, editor (2000–2015)
• Walter Sullivan, science editor
• John Swinton, chief editorialist (1860–1869)
• Howard Thompson, film critic
• Don Van Natta, Jr., Pulitzer Prize winning investigative correspondent
• Sean Villafranca, design manager (1998–2008)
• Sarah Jeong, Editorial Board[21]
• Betsy Wade, copy editor (1956–2001)[22]

Public editors

The public editor position was established in 2003 in response to the Jayson Blair scandal. In late May 2017, The New York Times announced that it was eliminating the post. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. announced: "The public editor position, created in the aftermath of a grave journalistic scandal, played a crucial part in rebuilding our readers’ trusts by acting as our in-house watchdog. We welcomed that criticism, even when it stung. But today, our followers on social media and our readers across the internet have come together to collectively serve as a modern watchdog, more vigilant and forceful than one person could ever be."[23]

• Daniel Okrent (2003–2005)
• Byron Calame (2005–2007)
• Clark Hoyt (2007–2010)
• Arthur S. Brisbane (2010–2012)
• Margaret Sullivan (2012–2016)
• Elizabeth Spayd (2016–2017)

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