The New York Times received more awards than any other news publication in the Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design Competition for 2017.

In addition, The Times took a total of 16 gold and silver medals, five more than the nearest competitor.

Awarded pieces include a gold medal for a portfolio of the Times’s work, including:

• Thousands Cried for Help as Houston Flooded
• Antarctic Dispatches
• Did the Turkish President’s Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington? What the Video Shows
• What Happens Just Before Show Time at the Met Opera, in 12 Rooms You’ll Never See
• 10 Minutes. 12 Gunfire Bursts. 30 Videos. Mapping the Las Vegas Massacre.
• Alabama Election Results: Doug Jones Defeats Roy Moore in U.S. Senate Race
• How 655,000 Rohingya Muslims Escaped

Silver medals were also awarded for individual portfolios from Umi Syam of Digital Design and Adam Pearce of Graphics.

– Steve Duenes

Update: The following is attributable to James Bennet, editorial page editor of The New York Times: “Despite our review of Quinn Norton’s work and our conversations with her previous employers, this was new information to us. Based on it, we’ve decided to go our separate ways.”

We’re delighted to announce that Quinn Norton has joined The New York Times editorial board as our lead opinion writer on the power, culture and consequences of technology.

Quinn is probably best known for her work at Wired, where she reported on Anonymous, the Occupy movement, and hacker culture and wrote regularly for the digital security blog Threat Level. She was also a columnist at Maximum PC magazine for five years, and she’s written regularly for Medium and contributed to The Atlantic, ProPublica and Gizmodo.

We find ourselves at a moment of profound uncertainty about the role of technology in our lives, the influence of the tech companies and the correct direction of public policy to address all this change. We’re effectively asking technologists and policymakers to do so much — to secure our elections, to reinvent our business models, to educate and entertain and safeguard ourselves and our children, to protect us from extremists around the world. We expect all of this, across 200-plus nations and uncountable cultures, while also aspiring to privacy, transparency and prosperity. We’re excited to have Quinn to help our readers understand what’s possible and what’s sensible, and where we’re all headed.

She plans to split her time between Luxembourg and San Francisco, with periodic visits to New York.

– James Bennet, Katie Kingsbury and Jim Dao

In conversation with Jodi Rudoren on Feb. 20 in London.

The New York Times live event series, “How to Understand Our Times,” launches in London this month. The event brings together Academy Award-nominated actress and star of “Speechless” Minnie Driver, in conversation with Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor of The New York Times, on Tuesday, Feb 20. from 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.  

As sexual misconduct scandals continue to ripple out from Hollywood, Ms. Driver will discuss the social reckoning affecting workplaces around the world and the impact of the global #MeToo Moment. The event will take place at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill.

Merging the Academy’s excellence in curating compelling speakers with the journalistic leadership of The New York Times, “How to Understand Our Times” aims to deliver a highly engaging and informative experience for attendees. Each event will focus on a key theme driving change.

The second, sold-out event in this series brings together two of the greatest thought leaders of the 21st century. Historian, philosopher and best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus” Yuval Noah Harari joins three time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, deconstructing the Future of Humanity, questioning the impact of rapid innovation, social, cognitive and technological evolution on future societies.

The third installment in the “How To” series returns to the complex and evolving social discourse surrounding sexual misconduct. On Tuesday, March 20, “How to Understand Our Times” will host a lively and provocative debate about the wider social impact of the seminal #MeToo movement, as eminent speakers debate the motion The #MeToo Movement Has Not Moved Anything.   

Tickets for “How to Understand Our Times” events can be purchased on the how to: Academy website.

• Tuesday, Feb. 20: Minnie Driver on the #MeToo Moment (The Tabernacle, Notting Hill. On sale now)
• Monday, March 19: The Future of Humanity (Central Hall, Westminster. Sold out)
• Tuesday, March 20: Debate – The #MeToo Movement Has Not Moved Anything (Emmanuel Centre, Westminster. Tickets on sale soon.)

Deputy Sports editor Sam Manchester is covering the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and he’ll be sending readers live updates from within The Times’s core apps.

“While I’m there, I’ll be sending live, direct messages to our readers about what is happening at the Winter Games,” writes Sam. “Not just the latest results and schedule, but the behind-the-scenes stuff you won’t see on television.”

Those who sign up to receive messages will also have the chance to interact with Sam directly while he’s at the Games, to ask questions or suggest what events he should attend.

To sign up, visit nytimes.com/olympicsmessages.

Readers can find complete coverage of the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea here.

You can learn more about this initiative on The New York Times’s Open blog.

Rumaan Alam is joining the Books desk as special projects editor, a new position here, Pamela Paul writes. Rumaan, who has written for several sections of the paper and has written two novels, will work on elevating projects, spearheading new initiatives and extending outside partnerships.

We are thrilled to announce that Rumaan Alam is joining the Books desk as our special projects editor, a new position here. If his name sounds familiar, it should! Rumaan has been writing around the paper for several years now, from his moving Father’s Day essay in Opinion about adopting two sons with his husband to his recent review of children’s books for Black History Month to a Styles piece on clothing subscription services. He’s written two novels, “Rich and Pretty,” published to cheering reviews (and a glowing profile in Time magazine), and the forthcoming “That Kind of Mother,” out this May, is already winning high praise. Rumaan’s work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, The New Republic, Slate, Elle and Epicurious.

In addition to his writing, Rumaan has worked as an editor at New York, Details and Lucky magazines, and served as a freelance creative director for a range of advertising agencies and clients. We are frankly not sure what it is he can’t do.

As our special projects editor, Rumaan will be our in-house entrepreneur. He will work on elevating existing digital projects, events and visual storytelling across the desk, spearheading new initiatives, collaborating with other desks and extending outside partnerships. We look forward to welcoming him to The Times at the end of this month. Please join us in congratulating Rumaan on his new role.

— Pamela

The talented Kim Murphy, a much-beloved correspondent and editor at The Los Angeles Times, will  help drive enterprise with correspondents across National’s report, write Marc Lacey, Jia Lynn Yang and Julie Bloom..

Kim Murphy, a hugely talented and much-beloved correspondent and editor at The Los Angeles Times, will be joining the National desk as an enterprise editor.

Kim has done it all as a journalist. She started at small places, The North Biloxian and The Minot Daily News, and then rose up to become one of the L.A. Times’s star correspondents, with datelines across the United States and the world. She jumped into editing in recent years, becoming that paper’s national editor and then joining the masthead as assistant managing editor for national and foreign news.

Her correspondents know when she’s on the line that she’s not asking them to do anything she has not done herself, and done well. “She’s a reporter’s editor,” said Rick Rojas of Metro, who worked with Kim at the L.A. Times and whose eyes lit up when he heard she would be moving east.

Kim won a Pulitzer for international reporting in 2005 for “her eloquent, wide-ranging coverage of Russia’s struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work.” Dean Baquet, who was at the L.A. Times then, said he still remembers the lede of one of her pieces, which described how Russian militants who took hostages at a primary school allowed one mother to leave but with only one of her two children. “It was breathtaking,” Dean said of her account.

Closer to home, Kim wrote memorable articles like this one, on a murder mystery unfolding in a tiny town in Alaska, while she was a correspondent in the Pacific Northwest.

At The Times, Kim will work with a team of lucky correspondents and help drive enterprise across National’s report. Please welcome her.

— Marc, Jia Lynn and Julie

T Magazine will introduce its refresh online today, Wednesday, Feb. 7, and in print on Sunday, Feb. 18, featuring new content and a new look under the direction of editor in chief Hanya Yanagihara and creative director Patrick Li. With Ms. Yanagihara at the helm, readers will find a richness of lively elevated writing, intimate profiles, stunning photography, and diverse voices that define the cultural moment we live in now.

T will cast a more global lens that reveals to readers some of today’s most interesting stories from around the world, in a way that is more immediate than ever before. The magazine will have a more expansive approach to covering fashion, luxury and culturally rich subject matter.

T’s new cover story celebrates the feminist artist Judy Chicago who, at 78, will be the subject of a number of major solo gallery and museum shows over the next 18 months. The past year saw her most celebrated work, “The Dinner Party” (1979), become a pop-cultural touchstone.

Read more about T’s refresh in the press release here.

 

 

Please see below for a note sent to staff by Roland Caputo, Executive Vice President, Print Products & Services Group, The New York Times Company:

Dear Colleagues,

I’m very pleased to tell you that we have entered into a multi-year agreement with Newsday to print and insert and transport all of their print products out of our College Point facility. This includes Newsday, amNewYork and Hometown Shopper, a commercial product delivered to non-Newsday subscribers.

We’ll begin transitioning the first of these soon with full conversion expected before the end of 2018.

Our production colleagues in College Point do an exceptional job creating a first class newspaper every day and that excellence has allowed us to expand our commercial printing operation.

This deal will provide meaningful revenue that will help support our broader business goals and our singular journalistic ambitions.

Take a look at the “magic” that happens in Queens each night in a feature from Arthurious that ran earlier this week.

And, continued thanks to everyone on our print production team. Print remains so important to our business and to our loyal customers and we’re grateful for your continued commitment to excellence.

Roland

We’re delighted to announce that The New York Times Magazine and T Magazine has a total of five finalists for the 2017 ASME National Magazine Awards.

Finalists for the 2018 National Magazine Awards were just announced and The New York Times Magazine has four entries in the running. Two of The Times Magazine’s stories are finalists in the Reporting category– “Kushnerville,” by Alec MacGillis; and “The Uncounted,” by Anand Gopal and Azmat Khan. One story is a finalist in Feature Writing–“The Mailroom,” by Jeanne Marie Laskas. The Magazine’s all-comics New York Issue is a finalist in the Single-Topic Issue category.

“This is another strong showing from NYT Mag. Kudos to Alec, Anand and Azmat, and Jeanne Marie, plus all the illustrators in the New York issue and all the editors, photo editors, designers, researchers, copy editors and print and digital production folks involved in these four entries,” said Jake Silverstein, editor in chief, The New York Times Magazine.

T Magazine was also nominated in the General Excellence category for Service and Lifestyle, honoring publications covering food, travel and design as well as fashion and beauty.

“We’re honored and delighted by this nomination, which recognizes T’s unique place at the crossroads of culture and style,” said Hanya Yanagihara, T’s editor in chief.

Awards will be presented in March.

 

February 1, 2018 marks the one year anniversary of “The Daily.” Over the past year, 126 Times journalists have appeared on the show and it has been downloaded more than 200 million times. Read more in this note from Sam Dolnick, Lisa Tobin and Samantha Henig:

Today marks one year since we launched “The Daily,” and we wanted to use the moment to thank everyone for contributing ​their time, expertise, creativity and unending string of scoops​.

The secret of “The Daily,” above all else, has been the newsroom’s generosity and eagerness to collaborate. That began with our very first ​episode, when the great Adam Liptak agreed to not one, but two “Daily” interviews; one for each of the possible Supreme Court nominees whom Trump was expected to select that night. Adam had his own huge stories to write on deadline but he took the time to share his expertise, setting the tone for the year to come.

​​T​here have been countless heroic moments. The White House team recorded its Oval Office interview for us. Emily Steel, on deadline with a bombshell Bill O’Reilly story, tolerated producers with microphones crowding her desk. Rukmini Callimachi called us from a rooftop in Mosul​, Iraq. ​Mike Schmidt called us from Kinko’s.

Over the past year, 126 Times journalists have appeared on the show. (Matt Apuzzo alone has been on 19 times.) They put their trust in a group of outsiders who came into The Times and built a name as the industry’s hardest working and most innovative audio producers: “The Daily’s” fearless managing producer, Theo Balcomb, and the ridiculously talented team of Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Annie Brown, Ike Sriskandarajah, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett and Andy Mills. ​

“The Daily” has thrived thanks to the support and hard work of the entire institution: advertising has brought in big brands like BMW and Google; product and tech have built a native audio player for all NYT platforms and has put “The Daily” on Amazon Echo and Google Home; the marketing department has made “Daily” T-shirts and tote bags and promoted the show online and in print.

Together we have built a new platform for Times journalism that is reaching the next generation of Times subscribers. More than a third of listeners are younger than 30, and about two thirds are under 40. Nearly 30 percent of “Daily” listeners say they read The Times more often now than they did before. “The Daily” has been downloaded more than 200 million times, an astonishing number that dwarfs the competition.

It was the ​most popular new podcast in Apple Podcasts​ in 2017​. It won a duPont ​Award ​last month​ and was named to ​all the ​”​Best Of​“​ lists​​ last year. ​A​nd our tireless host, Michael Barbaro, has gained a few ​​new fans as well.

So, thank you and congratulations all around. ​

Here’s to year two!

— Sam Dolnick, Lisa Tobin and Samantha Henig​

 

Ivan Penn is joining Business Day to cover alternative energy. Read more in this memo from Ellen Pollock, Adrienne Carter and Kevin McKenna:

We are delighted to announce that Ivan Penn will join Business Day to cover alternative energy.

Ivan brings vast knowledge and impressive accomplishments to the beat. He has covered utility and energy issues for nearly eight years, at The Tampa Bay Times and most recently for The Los Angeles Times. He’s told readers why Californians are paying billions for power they don’t need; why the state has invested so heavily in solar power that other states sometimes have to be paid to take it; and how energy traders have pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars at rate payers’ expense.

“Ivan is a tenacious reporter who finds great stories that usually get little attention or scrutiny,” says Larry Ingrassia, who worked with Ivan out west. “Who knew that power plants and transmission lines could be so interesting, and that executives running them could get up to such shenanigans? Well, Ivan did. California utilities and regulators will be very happy to have him focus his energy elsewhere, I am sure.”

Another fan is Natalie Kitroeff, who reports, “Ivan really is the best colleague you could ask for, and I’m so happy he’s going to be playing for our team now.” What’s more, she says, he is a mean trumpet player.

Ivan is a native of Washington, grew up in Maryland and graduated from the University of Maryland. Earlier stops in his career included The Miami Herald and The Baltimore Sun, where he was an investigative reporter and covered government, politics and criminal justice.

He’ll continue to be based in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, September, a singer-songwriter, and their three children. But he will roam widely in his reporting. He’ll be starting on Feb. 20 and will spend time at the mother ship, where you’ll have the pleasure of getting to know him. With luck, maybe he’ll bring his trumpet.

— Ellen, Adrienne and Kevin

The New York Times Company has retained Anonymous Content to represent its film and television rights. Anonymous Content will work closely with The New York Times to find the right partners and opportunities to bring New York Times journalism and insights to film and television projects.

Anonymous Content will represent The New York Times in exploring opportunities with buyers, agencies and production companies. The collaboration provides The New York Times, and their award-winning journalists, the opportunity to match their work with the best creative partners in the film and television industry.

“Our mission at The Times is to help people understand the world by creating the most ambitious and innovative journalism in the world,” said Sam Dolnick, assistant managing editor, The New York Times. ”Anonymous Content’s deep bench of talent, relationships and expertise will help bring the power of The Times to new audiences.”

“The New York Times is a treasure trove of incredible, original stories reported without fear or favor by some of the world’s best journalists. Our collaboration will push New York Times stories onto new screens and new platforms. The Times is a globally recognized source of original, fact-based reporting and we couldn’t be more excited to collaborate with this renowned institution,” said Anonymous Content’s Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski.

Media Contacts:

The New York Times: Danielle Rhoades Ha, Danielle.Rhoades-Ha@nytimes.com

Anonymous Content: Sarah Rothman, Sarah.Rothman@42west.net

 

Lauren Katzenberg has been named editor of At War. Read on in this note from Jake Silverstein:

Last fall, we announced that we would be relaunching At War, the blog that existed on nytimes.com from 2009 to 2014. During that time, At War, which was staffed haphazardly, developed a passionate following, and a die-hard group of regular contributors, most of them veterans of U.S. military service, often in combat, and at low rank. After most NYT blogs were discontinued in 2014, At War gradually went dormant. We decided to relaunch it because, with conflicts simmering around the globe, and American troops engaged in the longest war in the country’s history, we saw an acute need for this forum.

For the past few months we have been searching for the right editor to oversee this relaunch, and I’m thrilled to announce today that we’ve found her: In February, Lauren Katzenberg will be joining The Times as our new At War editor.

It’s hard to imagine a better person to fill this role. Lauren is leaving her current position as the managing editor of Task and Purpose, a site she helped found in 2014 to cover military and veterans issues. Over the past three years, Lauren helped Task and Purpose grow swiftly into a well-respected and widely read outlet that today reaches around 2.5 million monthly readers. She adroitly developed editorial strategy, commissioned and edited stories, managed social outreach, and created podcasts, multimedia and live events — all elements that will be critical to At War’s relaunch.

Lauren’s background is in foreign policy and journalism. She has a master’s from the School of Oriental and African Studies in global media and postnational communication, and she worked for two years in Kabul for an Afghan media company producing documentary films and TV and radio programs. After that she was an assistant editor at War on the Rocks, a foreign policy web magazine focused on national security.

In the coming months, we’ll be sharing more information about how the new At War will take shape. It is imagined as a primarily digital project, one that emphasizes community. We’re extremely excited about how At War, under Lauren’s guidance, will be able to deepen the Times’ reporting on war and conflict around the world. Our new vision seeks to build on the old At War’s success, expanding its reach and bringing in even more perspectives from across the spectrum of those experienced in and affected by war.  Lauren will be a part of the magazine, where she’ll work closely with C. J. Chivers and John Ismay, as well as deputy editor Jessica Lustig and politics editor Charlie Homans. Shreeya Sinha, of National, was integral to the first incarnation of At War and will also play a key role in the relaunch. Lauren will be working across the newsroom, collaborating with various desks and reporters, including T. M. Gibbons-Neff, Alissa Rubin, Jennifer Steinhauer, Maria Abi-Habib, Karam Shoumali and others. She’ll also be reconnecting with the old stable of At War freelance contributors and aggressively recruiting new voices.

Lauren’s start date is Feb. 20. Please join me in welcoming her aboard!

— Jake

 

 

 

Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Michael Schmidt and Emily Steel, along with the rest of the Times staff responsible for our sexual harassment coverage over the past year, have been chosen for a special citation by the judges of the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

According to the judges, the citation is in recognition of their outstanding reporting on sexual harassment and assault, which has contributed to a significant cultural movement across the globe.

The submission included the investigations of Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly, Louis C.K., Vice Media, Silicon Valley and Ford auto plants.

Here are all the finalists. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on March 6 at the Kennedy School at Harvard.

Caption: Clockwise, from top left, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Michael Schmidt and Emily Steel.

The New York Times today debuted a new ad from its “The Truth has a Voice” brand campaign, the second in a series of ads The Times is planning for this year that will focus on its unwavering commitment to original, independent journalism that holds power to account.

The ad highlights The Times’s groundbreaking investigations and coverage of the impact of traumatic brain injuries sustained in football and other sports, which dates back to 2007, and closes with the messages, “The truth has power. The truth will not be ignored. The truth has a voice.”

The Times’s decade-long interrogation of the effects of repeated brain trauma on football players has spurred Congressional inquiries, exposed bogus science, compelled changes to the rules of the game to make it safer and illuminated the toll on wives and children when former players are debilitated.

The ad is the latest in the series that draws from The Times’s acclaimed “The Truth is Hard” campaign that debuted during the Academy Awards last year. In the coming weeks, The Times plans to release ads highlighting other major Times investigations focusing on holding power to account in the sports arena, including its investigation of Russian doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as well as its coverage of the FIFA corruption scandal in 2015.

The Washington bureau has added to its editing ranks. Margaret Ho is deputy night editor, Justine Makieli is early morning editor, Teshia Morris is a senior staff editor, Jaime Swanson is night editor and Nathan Willis is deputy weekend editor.

Read on in a note from Elisabeth Bumiller and Bill Hamilton highlighting five editors recently joining the Washington desk:

Margaret Ho

Margaret Ho is deputy night editor. She was hired at The Times in 2010 and made the rounds of many copy desks in New York before settling in BizDay. She regularly copy-edited David Carr’s Media Equation column and camped out overnight in the New York office in 2011 during Hurricane Irene. In 2015, she moved to Hong Kong, where she edited mostly breaking news that originated in Asia and helped out with Washington and political news during Hong Kong’s day. She grew up in New York, France, South Carolina and New Jersey.

 

Justine Makieli

Justine Makieli is the early morning editor. She has been at The Times for four years and has worked on the Metro, BizDay and Foreign/National copy desks. Prior to her role in Washington, she was a slot editor on the Live Desk. Before coming to The Times, Justine was a homepage producer for The Washington Post, when she lived on Capitol Hill and in Shaw. She’s a graduate of Penn State and was born in Lancaster, Pa. Her husband, Amir Makieli (they combined last names when they got married — hers was Maki and his was Yoeli), is Israeli-American who works in architecture, and they have two Siberian huskies and recently welcomed a baby girl into the family, named Elara.

Teshia Morris

Teshia Morris will be joining the Washington bureau in February as a senior staff editor. Teshia, a terrific senior staff editor on the Print Hub, was previously an assistant deskhead on the live copy desk, where she expertly shepherded Washington, National and Foreign stories online and into print. Before that she worked on the Metro copy desk. She has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Wichita State, and as the daughter of an Air Force senior master sergeant, she has lived all over the country and the world — Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, the U.K. and Germany.

Jaime Swanson

Jaime Swanson is the Washington night editor. She started at The Times in April 2014 as a staff editor on the Foreign/National Copy Desk and quickly took on new roles, including late slot, fill-in slot and weekend slot. During the 2016 presidential campaign, she worked with the Politics Desk to help set the standard for live coverage of debate and election nights, including live chats, blogs and fact checks. She also worked as a slot on the Live Desk. She grew up and went to college in northern Illinois. After school, she did a tour of newspapers in the state, including The Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus, The Daily Southtown, The Daily Herald and The Chicago Tribune.

Nathan Willis

Nathan Willis is deputy Weekend Editor. He joined The Times in August 2015 from The Washington Post, where he spent eight years as a copy editor, deputy metro copy chief and backfielder. Then he took a buyout to work for The Motley Fool, a financial media company with an offbeat corporate culture and an abundance of beanbag chairs, where he shepherded newsletters and online services as editor, including the largest investment newsletter in the world, Stock Advisor. He grew up in Kansas farm country and majored in journalism at the University of Kansas, where he was editor of the University Daily Kansan. He lives in Shaw with his fiance, Marcus Markle.

Matt will be the newsroom’s lead working with the teams that develop digital products for The Times. Read more in this note from Dean Baquet, Joe Kahn and James Bennet:

We are delighted to announce that Matt Ericson, one of our most experienced digital leaders, is being promoted to assistant managing editor. In essence, Matt will be the newsroom’s lead working with the teams that develop digital products for The Times.

In the coming years, The Times must continue to develop tools and platforms that distinctly power our digital journalism and that will enable new forms of storytelling. We want to find ways to make The Times an ever more essential daily habit. And we want to build personalized experiences that ensure that the widest possible audience sees the journalism most relevant to them, while also preserving the news judgment and shared news experience that are hallmarks of The Times.

These projects are going to require close collaboration with colleagues in product, design, technology and data. As a result, this is a role that needs to reach beyond the newsroom — Matt will report to Alex Rainert, the head of product and design, and to the three of us. Working with leaders in product and design, Matt will help the newsroom set a vision for how our journalism will appear on our core products, ensuring that the ambition of our digital products and publishing tools matches the ambition of our journalism.

Matt has been one of our strongest and most creative leaders and offers rare experience spanning news and technology. For the past two years, he’s been an associate editor, overseeing product development of Scoop, along with working closely with our colleagues in product and design on the development of reader-facing features on nytimes.com and our mobile apps. Before that, he played a key role as deputy graphics director under Steve Duenes, in building The Times’s reputation for storytelling innovation and visual journalism, helping transform that department from a print outlet to a multiplatform operation.

Please join us in congratulating Matt on his new role.

— Dean, Joe and James

Jack Nicas will join Business  Day. Read more in this note from Ellen Pollock and Pui-Wing Tam.

All — We’re delighted to announce that Jack Nicas will join Business Day as a technology reporter based in San Francisco, where he will cover Apple and Silicon Valley.

Jack hails from The Wall Street Journal, where he most recently covered Google from San Francisco. He joined The Journal in 2011 in its Chicago office, where he wrote about Midwestern politics, economics and natural disasters (floods were a frequent topic), before switching to cover aviation and U.S. airlines for several years. Prior to The Journal, he interned at the St. Petersburg Times and at The Boston Globe.

In his coverage of Google, Jack has examined how the company serves people answers that are often contentious or plain incorrect, profiled how former star Google engineer Anthony Levandowski helped create a self-driving war with Uber, and spent many hours watching noxious YouTube videos to identify advertisers who had unthinkingly agreed to advertise next to such content. (For his efforts, he was targeted — where else? — on YouTube.)

What also caught our eye about Jack’s work was his talent for spotting tech’s quirks, including Google’s missing free bicycles and how drone makers actually hate the word drone and instead suggested many other names (UAV or UAS or RPA, anyone?) that do not roll off the tongue.

The biggest human impact from Jack’s work may have come from a story he wrote while a senior at Boston University: a 3,700-word investigative article on the flaws of a 27-year-old arson-murder conviction that ran atop the Sunday Boston Globe. The story resulted in a judge overturning the conviction of Victor Rosario, who had been otherwise destined to spend the rest of his life in prison. Jack wrote about the experience for The New England Center for Investigative Reporting here.

Jack, a Massachusetts native, lives with his wife, Sonia, in Oakland, Calif. Living in the Bay Area has unfortunately done little to temper Jack’s admiration of New England sports teams like the Patriots, much to the chagrin of at least one of his new West Coast editors.

Please extend a warm welcome to Jack, who starts in San Francisco next month.

Ellen and Pui-Wing

Matt Phillips has joined Business Day. Read more in this note from Ellen Pollock, Adrienne Carter and David Enrich. 

All,

We are excited to announce that Matt Phillips has joined Business Day as a markets reporter.

Matt comes to us from Vice, where he ran Vice Money. He wrote stories, produced videos, created charts and other graphics, and generally found creative ways to explain finance and business to a digital audience that wasn’t always predisposed to read about such topics.

Prior to that stint in scenic Williamsburg, Matt helped get Quartz off the ground, with a focus on markets. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, as well as The Bakersfield Californian and The Albany Business Review.

Matt is an expert at using charts and simple language to explain financial arcana to a lay audience. Want to understand how Switzerland’s central bank controls its currency? Look no further.

His interests are considerably broader than mere markets. At Vice, he did an investigation into how criminal records disqualify people from jobs, hurting the economy. At The Journal, he wrote a front-page piece about how some people don’t realize their canes have swords hidden inside until they try to bring them through airport security.

Matt, who graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, lives in Westchester with his wife and baby daughter. In his spare time, he’s working on a historical spy novel about Nazis on Long Island in the 1930s.

Please welcome Matt to The Times.

— Ellen, Adrienne & David

Amal El-Mohtar has been named science fiction and fantasy columnist for The New York Times Book Review.  She replaces N.K. Jemisin who served as the Otherworldly columnist for two years. Read more in this note from the Pamela Paul, Greg Cowles and David Kelly.

After two stellar (and interstellar) years as the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist, N.K. Jemisin is leaving to devote more time to her numerous outside projects, including her own books and a guest editorship for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series. Since inaugurating the Otherworldly column in January 2016, Nora has gone on to win consecutive Hugo awards for best novel, and her book “The Fifth Season” (the start of her Broken Earth trilogy) is in development as a television series for TNT. We were delighted to have her.

And we are delighted to announce another Hugo winner as our next Otherworldly columnist: Amal El-Mohtar won the Nebula, Locus and Hugo awards last year for her short story “Seasons of Glass and Iron.” Amal’s speculative fiction and poetry have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and she regularly reviews for NPR and other outlets — including the Book Review, where she wrote about Naomi Alderman’s “The Power” last year. Her novella “This Is How You Lose the Time War,” written with Max Gladstone, will be published by Saga Press in 2019.

“I’m especially fascinated by books that don’t want to save the world so much as break or dislocate it further, in order to build something better in its wake,” she told us. “Fantasy and science fiction have long had at their heart the question of how to be good, and the 20th century’s shifting visions from monoliths of Good and Evil to the more complicated battle between individuals and systems has been a wild ride. I’m excited to see it develop further.”

Amal lives in Ottawa with her partner and two cats. We are thrilled to welcome her to the Book Review, where her first Otherworldly column will appear in late February.

— Pamela, Greg and David

The 2018 class of summer interns at The New York Times offers a glimpse into journalism’s promising future. The journalists were chosen from literally thousands of applications that we received from around the world. They come from diverse backgrounds. And they arrive equipped with skills ranging from audio/visual and coding to reporting and multiplatform editing.

Read on in a note from Ted Kim, Director of the Newsroom Fellowship and Internship Program:

I’m thrilled to announce the newsroom’s picks for the The New York Times 2018 summer internship. The class arrives in June.

Here are our newsroom picks, their assignments and colleges:

Rachel Buigas-Lopez, art design (Thomas Morgan Visual Journalism Internship in Design), New York University

Soraya Shockley, audio editor, Harvard University

Sabrina K. Bodon, multiplatform editor, Point Park University

Rachael Marie Bolek, multiplatform editor, University of Illinois

Kayla Lannette Cockrel, multiplatform editor, Wayne State University

Satoshi Sugiyama, multiplatform editor, Syracuse University

Tessa A. Bangs, multiplatform editor (Gainesville, Fla., Editing Center), University of Notre Dame

Jessica Peng, graphics editor (Morgan Internship), University of Pennsylvania

Ashley Ngu, graphics editor (Morgan Internship), Stanford University

Sahil Chinoy, graphics editor (Morgan Internship), University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Fischer, interactive news editor, University of Pennsylvania

Suzanne Wang, interactive news editor, Wellesley College

Marian Carrasquero, photographer (Morgan Internship), University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism

Emma Howells, photographer (Morgan Internship), Ohio University

Gabriella Angotti-Jones, photographer (Morgan Internship), San Francisco State University

Claire Ballentine, reporter (Business Day, James Reston Reporting Fellowship), Duke University

Amanda Svachula, reporter (Culture, Reston Fellowship), Northwestern University

Mariana Alfaro, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), Northwestern University

Tyler Blint-Welsh, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), Northeastern University

Melissa Gomez, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), University of Florida

Julia Jacobs, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), Northwestern University

Tyler Pager, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), University of Oxford

Aaron Robertson, reporter (Metro, Reston Fellowship), University of Oxford

Catie Edmondson, reporter (Washington bureau, Reston Fellowship), Barnard College

Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, reporter (Washington bureau, David E. Rosenbaum Reporting Internship), University of California, Berkeley

Katherine Burns, social media editor, Emerson College

Adriana Lacy, social media editor, Pennsylvania State University

Sebastian Vega, social media editor, University of Southern California

Claire Molloy, video journalist, City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

Brian Ryu, video journalist, New York University

Maea Lenei Buhre, video journalist, Columbia University

Tryggvi Adalbjornsson, reporter (Climate, Reston Fellowship), Columbia University

Sasha Weiss has been named culture editor of The New York Times Magazine. Read more in this memo from the Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Jake Silverstein.

It is my sincere pleasure to announce that Sasha Weiss is taking on the role of Culture Editor for the magazine. In this new position, Sasha will be spearheading our coverage of film, television, books, fine art, theater, music, and more. I could not be more excited about this. Sasha is one of our most culturally astute brains, someone whose sharp eye has been responsible for some of our best cultural writing over the past three years. She’s already a major player in shaping some of our marquee arts criticism, from On Photography to Still Processing; in this new role, she’ll bring the same keen editorial sensibility, collaborative spirit and catholic tastes that shaped those projects to the rest of the magazine.

As culture editor, Sasha will be in charge of guiding our arts-related assignments, overseeing our cultural calendar, and convening a new bi-weekly culture meeting, a brainstorming session for writers and editors. And she’ll help make sure that we’re continuing to bring in exciting new voices of critics and cultural reporters. All editors at the magazine will continue to assign and edit culture stories, of course, but Sasha will be responsible for guiding that coverage with an eye on the whole field.

This new role is effective immediately, so in the weeks ahead you may notice some changes.

Please join me in congratulating Sasha!!

Jodi Rudoren, an accomplished journalist and newsroom entrepreneur, has become an associate managing editor of The New York Times.

Jodi has spent the past year as editorial director of NYT Global, driving our efforts to make The New York Times a truly global news organization. Working closely with Stephen Dunbar-Johnson and a team that spans specialties around the company, Jodi has invested in smarter coverage, newsletters, briefings, events, audience strategy and marketing that have made The Times more prominent and indispensable in several major target markets and beyond.

There are plenty of metrics to back this up. Global readership and engagement are way up. International digital subscriptions have surged at an even faster rate than they have in the United States during a time when American political upheaval dominated the news.

Jodi also oversaw the creation of our gender initiative at a critical moment, recruiting a top-notch editorial team, starting the #MeToo Moment newsletter, and putting in place a strategy to deepen engagement among women readers in the United States and abroad.

Just as important, Jodi’s voice has become a critical one on a wide range of issues facing the newsroom. As a veteran foreign, metro and national correspondent, as well as a deputy on International and Metro, Jodi has deep experience. She’s also the source of frank advice and insight that helps make the newsroom work better.

So with this appointment, we’re aiming to give Jodi’s global push even more momentum across the organization, and formalize her role as a core member of our leadership team.

 

French collective Études and Japanese fashion designer Sacai both independently featured New York Times branding on their respective runways during Men’s Fashion Week this past weekend in Paris.

Sacai featured the phrase, “Truth. It’s more important now than ever,” from The Times’s 2016 “The Truth is Hard” brand campaign on a T-shirt and sweatshirt, while Études featured The Times logo on a variety of items, including T-shirts, sweatshirts, vests, capes, caps and scarves. Both designers licensed The Times logo for use.

Sacai’s T-shirts will be sold at select retailers starting in June.

Chitose Abe, creative director and founder of Sacai, said, “From the very beginning, it has always been very important for me to create something new while being true to my beliefs and identity. While I was designing my FW 18 men’s and pre-fall ’18 women’s collections, given the climate we live in at the moment, I thought this was a great chance to affirm this notion by what The New York Times declared so perfectly.”

Aurélien Arbet, creative director and co-founder of ‎Études Studio, said, “We reached out to The New York Times to do a collaboration because of the main inspiration for our upcoming Autumn Winter 2018-19 collection.The collection is entitled Underground and explores the theme of ‘Keys to the city…’ around ideas such as urban exploration, documentary, journalism, archeology and outdoor, workwear and army clothing. Lastly, we are in love with The New York Times logo and what it represents, it stands somewhere between past and present, two notions we like to explore within our multiple projects in fashion and publishing.”

Susan Rice, Kashana Cauley, Justin Gillis and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among a new group of contributing writers whose essays will regularly appear in Opinion. Read more in this note from James Bennet, Jim Dao and Katie Kingsbury:

We’re thrilled that Susan Rice, Kashana Cauley, Justin Gillis and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among a new group of contributing writers whose essays will regularly appear in Opinion.

These new voices will enrich the debate on our pages, further expanding the range of intellectually honest viewpoints and opinions that we offer our readers. We will continue to grow the roster in the coming months.

• Susan Rice, a national security adviser and United Nations ambassador during the Obama administration, will provide commentary on national security and foreign policy issues, particularly China and the trans-Atlantic partnership.
• Kashana Cauley, a former staff writer for “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Esquire and The New Yorker, will write about culture, race and politics.
• Justin Gillis, a former Times editor and environmental reporter who is working on a book on energy policy, and will contribute to the Op-Ed section’s new environment vertical.
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, is a Pulitzer-prize winning author (“The Sympathizer”), 2017 MacArthur fellow and professor of English, comparative literature and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he holds the Aerol Arnold Chair of English. He will be writing about immigration, refugees, politics, culture and South East Asia.

In addition, two current contributing writers, Margaret Renkl and Jennifer Finney Boylan, will be featured more regularly. Margaret, a Nashville resident who is the editor of Chapter 16, a literary website, writes about Southern culture, politics, nature and faith. Her essays appear every Monday. Jennifer, the author of 15 books including the novel “Long Black Veil,” is the Anna Quindlen writer in residence at Barnard College. Her essays appear on alternate Wednesdays.

They join a talented international corps of more than 60 contributing opinion writers that includes Lindy West, Roxane Gay, Peter Wehner, Zeynep Tufekci, Héctor Tobar, Julia Baird, Ruchir Sharma, Mimi Swartz, Vanessa Barbara, Jennifer Weiner, Michael Eric Dyson and Tim Wu.

James, Jim & Katie

 

The New York Times Travel desk has named Malin Fezehai, Walter Thompson-Hernandez and Stephen Hiltner new residents of its Surfacing residency, designed for emerging journalists who want to cover the world’s undiscovered and offbeat communities. With the support of the Véa brand, a new snack portfolio that celebrates real ingredients and globally inspired recipes, the new residents will become Times contributors, and travel the country and world for their reporting. They will share their stories in multiple formats, including social platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.

Fezehai, Thomas-Hernandez and Hiltner possess a keen eye for visual storytelling and a substantial social media presence that continues to grow. Their interest, experience and skills match The Times’s effort to expand and enhance its coverage of these new cultures and communities.

Learn more about Surfacing and its three new residents here.

 

 

On January 17, The Times’s Food section will be devoted to the food scene in Canada, ranging from indigenous restaurants to immigrant cuisines.

To mark the occasion, Food editor Sam Sifton is traveling to Canada.

• Toronto: On Jan. 15 Sam Sifton will be joined by David Sax, a Times Food reporter, as well as a handful of Syrian chefs and restaurateurs who are enlivening Toronto’s food landscape. Tickets and more information can be found here; members of the press can RSVP for this event in Toronto using the form here.

• Montreal: On Jan. 16, hear from Sam Sifton and David McMillan, the restaurant owner best known for Montreal’s celebrated Joe Beef. Tickets and more information can be found here; members of the press can RSVP for the event in Montreal using the form here.

Press inquiries can be directed to Ari Bevacqua at ari@nytimes.com.

David will adapt the feature for a new era, with the aim of making it digital first and more reader inclusive. Read more in this note from Bill Brink, Ellen Pollock and Rebecca Blumenstein:

Corner Office is coming back.

For nine years and through more than 500 columns, Corner Office provided readers a seat at the table with the country’s top business leaders and innovators. Deftly managed by Adam Bryant, it featured interviews with a wide range of chief executives — some of them steering powerful corporations and others who ran disruptive startups.

It was a timeless concept: part voyeurism, part business school curriculum, part personal narrative.

Now, David Gelles is taking over Corner Office and adapting it for a new era, with the aim of making it digital first and more reader inclusive.

David will be in dialogue with our readers, asking them who they want to hear from, what they want to hear about and putting those questions to the C.E.O.’s he interviews.

He’ll be broadening the conceit beyond print, with audio, video and Facebook Live. Down the line, Corner Office interviews may take place as live events at business schools and in various cities.

In all cases, David will be talking to C.E.O.’s about the big issues of the day, getting their views on leadership, management and urgent workplace issues, as well as their personal histories.

Readers will be able to share their ideas by emailing us at corneroffice@nytimes.com, and we’ll be using the Twitter hashtag #NYTcorneroffice.

David is uniquely suited to take over this franchise. He has been a business reporter for The Times for four and a half years, writing for Sunday Business, DealBook and across the paper, and previously covered media for The Financial Times. He is the author of “Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business From the Inside Out.”

Corner Office will relaunch in late February or early March. In the meantime, we’d love to hear suggestions about whom you think we should interview, and what we should ask.

— Bill, Ellen and Rebecca

 

Katie, who joined the D.C. bureau last January to cover the beginning of the Trump era, is now a White House correspondent. Read more in this note from Elisabeth Bumiller and Bill Hamilton:

We’re very happy to announce that Katie Rogers is now a White House correspondent and part of the best team in the business.

Katie joined the bureau last January to cover the beginning of the Trump era, starting with the Inaugural and the concerts and balls. She has since written terrific features on the first lady, a Saudi prince, the dog who flunked out of the CIA and life at the Trump hotel in Washington. (The memorable lede: “It was nearing midnight at the Trump International Hotel, and the president’s son was eating macaroni and cheese.”) Katie has also covered sexual harassment in Congress and the dueling-director drama at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Katie joined The Times in 2014 as an editor on the NYT Now project and later helped launch the Express rewrite desk. There she wrote stories on all topics for most desks in the newsroom, including contributing to a Foreign project on the human toll of terror attacks and writing an A1 Culture profileof a Trump inauguration performer.

Katie came to The Times from The Guardian, where she oversaw social media production for projects, including the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Snowden leaks, and reported on breaking news. Before that, she juggled similar duties at The Washington Post. A native Hoosier, Katie got her start as an education reporter at her hometown paper, The Elkhart Truth.

She is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago and has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern. She and her husband live with their ever-growing vinyl collection in Alexandria, Va.

Please congratulate her!

— Elisabeth and Bill  

Michael, who has worked at Bloomberg, Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Al Jazeera America, will report on artificial intelligence, algorithms, robots and technology. Read more in this note from Gabriel Dance:

Michael Keller, a reporter at Bloomberg, is joining Investigations to report on artificial intelligence, algorithms, robots and technology.

At Bloomberg, Michael wrote about FEMA’s flood maps and built graphics tracking President Trump’s conflicts of interests across the globe. Prior work — demonstrating creative flair and technical prowess — includes interactive maps detailing how much space the millions of Syrian refugees would occupy in the United States, and an examination of the Apple “kill list,” or what words the iPhone refuses to offer spelling suggestions for.

In 2015, he was able to break the story on how fast Amtrak 188 was going just before it crashed outside Philadelphia, because he had set up a program to track train speeds. The project won the Online News Association award for breaking news. He also co-wrote a graphic novella about privacy and big data that was recently translated into French and German.

Michael grew up in Los Angeles and went to college at Georgetown, where he majored in comparative literature (mostly French) and cognitive psychology. He also earned a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School. Besides Bloomberg, he has worked at Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Al Jazeera America. He was also a research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia, where he created a project that sought to help newsrooms better measure the qualitative impact of their work.

Oh, and he was once an extra on an episode of “Full House.”

He starts on Monday. Please welcome him to The Times.

— Gabriel

Gilbert Cruz will be the next Culture Editor of The Times. Read more in this note from Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn:

We are thrilled to announce that Gilbert Cruz, our television editor and an innovative digital journalist in the world of entertainment and the arts, will be the next Culture Editor of The Times.

Gilbert emerged from an outstanding pool of applicants for the job, impressing us with his energy, creativity and journalistic vision.

Before joining The Times, Gilbert worked at New York magazine’s culture site, Vulture, where he eventually rose to the top position, editorial director. He previously worked at Entertainment Weekly and Time Magazine.

Smart and sophisticated cultural coverage is essential to New York Times readers and an integral part of our future. In the years ahead, Gilbert’s primary task will be to build and expand a powerful digital culture report to complement our ambitious print sections.

Gilbert is a natural leader who will push for provocative coverage and challenging ideas, and bring fresh perspectives to our report.

What drew us to him was his encompassing love of all cultural genres, his belief that cultural reporting — led by our stellar news staff — continues to be necessary to help our readers understand both of the big players behind the scenes as well as the powerful (and flawed) systems and institutions that produce the culture we all consume.

Gilbert, who was born and raised in the Bronx, started his journalism career at the Tuscaloosa News in Alabama.

He came here almost three years ago as television editor, and, within six months, was asked to help launch Watching — The Times’s movie and TV recommendation site.

He and his staff at Watching have expanded the scope of service journalism at The Times — launching a newsletter with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and helping readers navigate their way through this overwhelming era of Peak TV. Recently, Watching launched a tutorial on how to cut the cable cord as well as a lively guide on how to prepare for the latest “Star Wars” movie.

Since the departure of Danielle Mattoon in August, our colleagues in Culture have continued to produce a brilliant report day after day, despite demanding circumstances and a newsroom undergoing major changes. We are grateful for their dazzling work and unrelenting effort, and excited about the department’s future.

— Dean and Joe

Megan Twohey and Emily Steel, who broke the bombshell sexual harassment stories that took down industry titans Harvey Weinstein and Bill O’Reilly, joined NBC’s “Megyn Kelly TODAY” to discuss their groundbreaking work and the work to come in 2018.

“This coverage is not stopping. We’re going to continue investigating allegation against powerful figures in a variety of industries. We’re also going to start turning our attention to what we’ve uncovered in recent months, aren’t just individual bad apples. We have started to piece together systemic failures that have allowed these predators to continue operating virtually unchecked,” Twohey tells Kelly. “I think moving into the new year, we’re going to be trying to figure out what are some of the systematic solutions.”

During the segment, “Megyn Kelly TODAY” teased The New York Times’s next phase of its brand campaign highlighting the power of its sexual harassment reporting.

Watch the full interview here.

Greg Cowles will be taking on the role of senior editor for the Books desk. Pamela Paul also writes that Tina Jordan joins The Times as one of our fiction preview editors and our newest Inside the List bestseller columnist, and Emily Eakin returns as a preview editor:

This month brings much change to the Books desk, where we are excited to announce a new role for Greg Cowles, as well as two new hires to replace both him and Jennifer Szalai, who was recently named our newest book critic.

Greg Cowles, an editor here for 13 years (four years on the copy desk, followed by nine years as a preview editor for fiction and poetry), will be taking on the role of senior editor for the Books desk, where he will help oversee the Book Review’s weekly publication and help drive strategy for our desk’s reviews, news and feature coverage. He will continue to edit poetry reviews and will take on editing By the Book, our popular weekly profile series. Before coming to The Times, Greg was a reporter and assistant news editor at Greenwich Time, where he won numerous awards for his reporting and editing. He has taught journalism, creative writing and editing at Stanford, Iona College and Columbia. Greg is a graduate of Occidental College and received his master of fine arts from Columbia. He is also an excellent critic in his own right, having reviewed everyone from George Saunders to Mary Karr to Jonathan Lethem in our pages.

Replacing Greg as one of our fiction preview editors and our newest Inside the List bestseller columnist is Tina Jordan. Tina Jordan is a well-known fixture in the literary world as the longtime books editor at Entertainment Weekly, where she has worked since the magazine’s founding over a quarter-century ago. She has edited all of the magazine’s book coverage, overseeing not just reviews but features and publishing industry news, assigning some of the very first United States coverage of J.K. Rowling, for example. She also served as the host of a weekly hour-long Sirius show, “Off the Books,” devoted to author interviews — everyone from Caitlyn Jenner to Caitlin Moran — and appeared regularly on PeopleTV’s “Shelf Life.” The daughter and granddaughter of college professors, Tina is a graduate of the University of Texas, where she majored in Plan II, the school’s arts and sciences honors program. Tina began her career at Simon & Schuster. A Texas native, Tina now lives in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., where she and her husband raised their two daughters and where she served as a longtime board member of the Croton Free Library. Tina will work on literary fiction, as well as science fiction and fantasy, horror, thrillers and romance coverage for The Times.

And we are delighted to welcome Emily Eakin as a preview editor, covering fiction and nonfiction reviews and editing essays for the Book Review. Emily is a Times veteran, so it’s especially gratifying to welcome her back to The Times, where she was a culture reporter covering intellectual politics and scholarly debate for the Arts & Ideas section. More recently, Emily has worked as a senior editor at The New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, New York magazine, The New York Review of Books Daily, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and The Virginia Quarterly Review, as well as in The Times Book Review, where she has contributed reviews since 1993. She has worked as a fashion features writer at Vogue and as a senior editor at Lingua Franca, and has taught journalism at New York University. She is currently working on a book for Penguin Press about real estate and politics. Originally from Bloomington, Ind., she graduated from Harvard, where she studied comparative literature and literary theory, and received master’s degrees in comparative literature from the École Normale Supérieure, in Paris, and from Columbia.

Tina and Emily will join The Times this month.

— Pamela

Lara Jakes has been named a deputy editor in Washington, overseeing the coverage of foreign policy. Read more in this note from Elisabeth Bumiller:

Great news. After a brilliant run as Washington night editor, Lara Jakes will be joining us dayside as a deputy editor overseeing the coverage of foreign policy in Washington. She’ll be editing our State Department reporters, Pentagon correspondents and more.

Lara comes exceptionally well-prepared for the job. Over the past two decades, she’s reported from more than 40 countries and covered war and sectarian fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank and Northern Ireland.

Before coming to The Times early last year, Lara was the deputy managing editor and then managing editor for news at Foreign Policy magazine. Prior to that, she worked for more than 12 years at The Associated Press, where she served as Baghdad bureau chief in 2012. As a reporter in Washington, Lara has covered the State Department, Pentagon, Justice Department and Homeland Security Department.

Lara’s a 1995 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and lives in Alexandria, Va., with her husband and daughter. If you want to get a taste of what her life was like as night editor in Washington during the first year of the Trump White House, and you missed the terrific Times Insider piece she wrote with Steve Kenny, read it all here.

“Times were tough for much of the past decade, and the family didn’t just hold strong, we got stronger. And we’re deeply committed to The Times for the future. We’re building something for generations.”

A.G. Sulzberger will become the publisher of The New York Times on January 1. This week, Sulzberger sat down for a wide-ranging conversation with The New Yorker’s David Remnick:

“This is an institution that gives reporters weeks, months, sometimes years to report a single story. Last year—and this is one of the statistics I’m proudest of—we put reporters on the ground in a hundred and seventy-four countries. As you know, as a former foreign correspondent, it is so important to actually immerse yourself in a place in order to understand it. Increasingly, we’re seeing that people are recognizing that original, deeply reported, rigorously fair, expert journalism is worth paying for,” Sulzberger says.

The full interview can be read and listened to here.

The Times has launched a new “Year in Review” ad campaign that celebrates the most definitive stories created by The Times’s newsroom this year.

The campaign covers the list of 40 of the best features of the year, as chosen by Times editors, and highlights the breadth of The Times’s original content, from political podcasts to sexual harassment investigations to relationship guides.

The campaign, which runs through Jan. 7, includes outdoor advertising running in Brooklyn and Chicago, digital and social, as well as a print ad that will run in The Times on Dec. 24.

We have completed our investigation into Glenn Thrush’s behavior, which included dozens of interviews with people both inside and outside the newsroom. We found that Glenn has behaved in ways that we do not condone.

While we believe that Glenn has acted offensively, we have decided that he does not deserve to be fired. Instead, we have suspended him for two months and removed him from the White House beat. He will receive training designed to improve his workplace conduct. In addition, Glenn is undergoing counseling and substance abuse rehabilitation on his own. We will reinstate him as a reporter on a new beat upon his return.

We understand that our colleagues and the public at large are grappling with what constitutes sexually offensive behavior in the workplace and what consequences are appropriate. It is an important debate with far-reaching consequences that we helped spark with our journalism and that we’ve been reflecting on internally as well.

Each case has to be evaluated based on individual circumstances. We believe this is an appropriate response to Glenn’s situation.

The Times is committed not only to our leading coverage of this issue but also to ensuring that we provide a working environment where all of our colleagues feel respected, safe and supported.

— Dean Baquet, Executive Editor

 

Live in D.C. With The New York Times

THE FUTURE OF RESTAURANTS 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18

6:30–8 PM

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from three James Beard Foundation and Michelin Award-winning chefs and restaurateurs, known for changing the dining scene around Washington, D.C., and beyond. Each has influenced the way we eat — whether it’s José Andrés’s avant-garde cuisine, Danny Meyer’s focus on enlightened hospitality at his iconic Union Square Cafe (coming soon to D.C.) and his Shake Shack empire or Aaron Silverman’s inventive, cozy dining at Rose’s Luxury and Pineapple and Pearls that helped put Washington, D.C., on the culinary map. Mr. Andrés made international news by stepping behind the stove to help feed three million Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria, and all three have worked to help fight hunger across America. Hear them discuss the future of the American restaurant in this era of culinary innovation with New York Times award-winning national food correspondent Kim Severson.

To register as press, please contact: Ari Bevacqua at ari@nytimes.com.

Tickets are now sold out but it can be livestreamed at www.TimesTalks.com.

 

 

Photo credits: 

José Andrés: Ryan Forbes

Danny Meyer: Melissa Hom

Aaron Silverman: Kate Warren

The New York Times had far more stories than any other outlet on Chartbeat’s list of the most engaged articles of 2017. Among those in the top 10:

• Multiple Weapons Found in Las Vegas Gunman’s Hotel Room (3)
• Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Lawsuits for Decades by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (7)
• Modern Love: You May Want to Marry My Husband by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (8)
• Pictures from the Women’s March on Every Continent (9)
• The Lost Children of Tuam by Dan Barry (10)

The New York Times also has 23 of the top 100 stories, including:

• sexual harassment allegations against Louis C.K
• 52 Places to Go in 2017
• an Op-Ed by Lupita Nyong’o on Harvey Weinstein
• Mayweather vs. McGregor match
• the Magazine’s cover story on open marriages
• 25 best films of the 21st Century so far
• the White House
• hurricane coverage
• Opinion’s graphic chronicling Trump’s Lies, among many other pieces of journalism

It was a big year for NYT Cooking.

Cooking launched digital subscriptions in June and already has 23,000 subscribers (as of Q3 2017).

In November, we launched our first hard-copy cookbook, “The New Essentials of French Cooking,” available exclusively on The New York Times Store. We also launched gift subscriptions for Cooking, offering one year of unlimited access for $40.

As Axios’s Sara Fischer points out, “engagement with Cooking online continues to climb.” Here are some other highlights from the year in NYT Cooking:

• The Cooking newsletter now has 1.7M subscribers
• Cooking saw approximately 10% growth in traffic year over year in Nov. 2017 (up 12.5% on the day of Thanksgiving YOY)
• The number of recipe savers grew approximately 50% YOY in Nov. 2017
• Recipe searches were also up 80% YOY in Nov. 2017
• Cooking has 14 holiday collections and over 400 holiday recipes on the supercollection Our newest Guide, “How to Make a Gingerbread House,” launched in early Dec.
• Cooking’s most popular holiday recipes were for roasts to serve at Christmas dinner (Garlicky Beef Tenderloin With Orange Horseradish Sauce and Standing Rib Roast); sides to go with it (Creamy Macaroni and Cheese and Yorkshire Pudding); and cookies for the holiday cookie plate (Peanut Butter Blossoms and Chocolate Chip Cookies)

The New York Times live results page for the Alabama Senate race has had more than 13 million page views, making it among the most-read pieces published by The Times this year. Readers came in through a mix of channels, with strong readership from search and social platforms, as well as from core Times platforms, including our app and homepage.

The success of the page demonstrates The Times’s authority in the digital age. The campaign of Roy S. Moore, the Republican candidate, projected the page on a large screen at its headquarters while waiting for voting returns to come in.

The page was powered by staff and technology from three departments at The Times: Graphics, The Upshot and Interactive News.

The needle showing live estimates of which candidate appeared to be ahead was intended to account for precincts that had not yet reported votes.

“We want to get readers the raw results as fast as possible, but we also want to tell them what they mean,” said Amanda Cox, editor of The Upshot at The Times. “For a couple of hours last night, it was critical to know that there were a lot of uncounted votes in Democratic-leaning places like Birmingham and Montgomery, and we want to help our readers know that.”

The data was refreshed in real-time using a technology that allows for continuous updates. Our system was faster than that of our competitors, enabling results to be delivered within seconds to readers, who did not need to manually refresh the page in order to see new information. The cross-functional team of reporters, coders and graphics editors served up 8 terabytes of data in order to make this possible.

In addition to the live results page, The Times also had a highly-read main story, a video and transcript of Doug Jones’ acceptance speech, takeaways on the political impact of the race and a live briefing that shared updates throughout the day.

Brian Rosenthal, Emma Fitzsimmons and Michael Laforgia won for their investigation into how politics and bad decisions starved New York’s subways. This is the second month in a row The New York Times has won the Sidney Award. (Last month Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey were recognized for their coverage of Harvey Weinstein.)

In an interview with the Hillman Foundation, the reporters discussed what they’d learned in the course of reporting on this series:

Q: What did you learn from this project that you will carry with you to your next assignments?

A: First of all, we have more stories coming in the series, so stay tuned! Looking back at the decisions that transit leaders and elected officials have made to push the subway into crisis, it has renewed our commitment to keep a close eye on M.T.A management and to hold officials accountable. We will also closely examine the subway rescue plan and whether it is making a difference in people’s lives, and the funding solutions currently being discussed.

Read the full interview here.

The New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey cover the Dec. 14 issue of Variety.

Kantor and Twohey revealed decades of sexual misconduct by the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in an investigation published in early October. Their reporting led to Weinstein’s firing and set off a national conversation about the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment.

Variety’s Brent Lang writes:

“Want proof that journalism matters? Look no further than Harvey Weinstein. Were it not for The New York Times and The New Yorker, the indie mogul would still be hobnobbing at Oscar parties, attending movie premieres and, if allegations are to be believed, routinely abusing and harassing women.

Instead, Weinstein is facing multiple criminal investigations and possible jail time. He’s been fired from the Weinstein Co. and drummed out of Hollywood. And he’s got company. Since the Times published its first story on Weinstein’s abuses, a slew of big-name media and entertainment personalities have been exposed as serial harassers or abusers. Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Brett Ratner and Kevin Spacey are just a few of the figures who are being forced to face the music, as other news organizations pick up where the Times and The New Yorker left off.

New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor deserve a lot of credit for helping to spark this industry-wide reckoning. Their tenacity helped them break the initial Weinstein story and, along with The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow, they’ve painted a portrait of a serial predator who was able to use his power to prey on female employees and actresses in a methodical fashion. By meticulously chronicling Weinstein’s abuses, these reporters have inspired other people to speak out and go public about the cultures of harassment in the workplace.”

The full feature can be found here.

Today, The New York Times debuted a native audio player designed to provide users a seamless audio experience to enjoy “The Daily,” “Still Processing” and other Times podcasts.

Available across platforms, users can now listen to their favorite shows directly from their apps and browsers, without using a separate podcast app. In addition to improving the player on mobile and desktop web, this is the first time users will be able to experience audio content from directly within Times Android and iPhone apps.

“We’re thrilled to launch a player to help power the incredible audio journalism our newsroom has been producing this year. Having a native player opens the door to new opportunities to improve the audio listening experience for our audience,” said Jordan Vita, Associate Product Manager, Multimedia.

The in-app player will allow audio to continue playing even if you navigate away from it, leave the app or put your device to sleep, allowing you to read through related articles and other content while you listen. Audio can be controlled within the app, with the device level controls, or even with an Apple Watch.

Finished listening? Just swipe away the player to dismiss.

Emily Flitter, who pretty much covered everything in her eight years at Reuters, has joined Business Day as a banking reporter. Read more in this note from Ellen Pollock, Adrienne Carter and David Enrich:

We are excited to announce that Emily Flitter has joined Business Day as a banking reporter.

Emily comes to us from Reuters, where she has pretty much covered everything in her eight years there – from the Treasury market and the Trump campaign to climate change policy and big agribusiness. She has a sophisticated understanding of finance, with the ability to translate the arcane into the understandable. Emily, who previously did stints at Barron’s Online, Wsj.com and American Banker, also covered white-collar crime for three years.

She broke news about Wall Street investigations and uncovered fraud that prompted government action. She wrote about big banking scandals like the London Whale and an Indian tycoon who had convinced authorities in his home country he was about to buy the Plaza Hotel. She also explained how risky real estate deals were sold to middle-class investors.

Matt Goldstein worked closely with Emily at Reuters. “She’s an energetic reporter who never shies away from a challenge and a big story. She’s as adept at digging through documents to unearth the financial shenanigans of a hedge fund manager as she is at interviewing family members of the victims of a terror attack.”

“But what may be the biggest mystery about Emily,” Matt said, “is how someone from south Florida could grow-up to be a huge Rangers and hockey fan.”

Emily, who graduated from Wellesley College and got a masters at New York University, lives in the East Village with her husband, Chris Reese, a fellow journalist at Reuters, and their two adopted, exotic birds. One landed on their roof and Chris found the other on the East River bike path. By her own description, she is a lazy birder. “I like to watch birds going about their daily lives no matter where I am, but I can’t bring myself to get up early and go look for them.”

Please welcome Emily to the department.

– Ellen, Adrienne & David

Jennifer Ildiko Szalai, an editor at Book Review, will be the new nonfiction critic. Read more in this note from Pamela Paul:

Sometimes, you search for the ideal candidate for a position far and wide, and find that the best one is sitting right across from you. We are thrilled to announce that Jennifer Ildiko Szalai will be the new nonfiction critic for The New York Times. Jennifer joins a stellar team of staff critics that includes Dwight Garner and Parul Sehgal. Like both Dwight and Parul, Jennifer comes to the job directly from her role as an editor at Book Review, where for the past four years, she has been editing literary fiction and nonfiction reviews, as well as Bookends, for which she is also a former columnist, and several of our most high-profile columnists. A former senior editor at Harper’s who also had a stint on the op-ed page of The Times, Jennifer is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she studied political science and peace and conflict studies, and the London School of Economics, where she received a master’s in international relations. Jennifer has taught journalism and criticism at Columbia and NYU. Her work has appeared in The Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Economist, New York magazine, Slate, The Nation, The New Statesman, The New Yorker online and The London Review of Books.

Jennifer is one of the most stylish, incisive, original writers on books, politics and culture today. A Canadian native who grew up between cultures – her father was Hungarian and her mother is from the Philippines – Jennifer is accustomed to negotiating between different viewpoints; she is an independent thinker with a supple, open mind attuned to books on many subjects – politics, foreign policy, government, social sciences, economics, science, technology, business and the arts.  We look forward to introducing her to our readers, who we expect will come to rely on her for her thoughtful, clarifying judgments of the most important nonfiction books published today.

Please welcome Jennifer to her new role; she will begin her regular reviews for The Times, alongside those of Dwight, Parul and Janet Maslin, in January.

– Pamela Paul

The New York Times Op-Docs won the Best Short Form Series Award at the 33rd annual IDA Documentary Awards. The awards ceremony was held on Saturday night at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles.

The IDA Documentary Awards is the world’s most significant recognition of the best nonfiction films and programs of the year.

“Recognition from the International Documentary Association for our body of work in 2016 is a huge honor. It is very rewarding to have our peers in the documentary community appreciate our series,” said Kathleen Lingo,  and executive producer of The New York Times Op-Docs.

On Tuesday, three Op-Docs were named as contenders in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 90th Academy Awards.

Launched in 2011, Op-Docs is The New York Times’s Emmy-winning documentary film series. Highlighting both emerging and established directors and artists, the short documentaries of Op-Docs explore the most important issues facing our world. All Op-Docs can be seen at NYTimes.com/OpDocs.

 

 

Amy Chozick, who joined The Times in 2011 as a media reporter, has returned from book leave and joined Business Day as a writer at large, reporting feature stories for Sunday Business, Styles and more. Read more in this note from Ellen Pollock:

I’m pleased to announce that Amy Chozick has returned from book leave and joined Business Day as a writer at large. Amy will focus on writing feature stories, on a variety of topics, that will appear in Sunday Business, Styles and elsewhere in the paper.

We all know that Amy’s heart has always been at BizDay. Even as she raced through 48 states, covering the Clinton campaign, she was pining to come back to us.

Amy joined The Times in 2011 as a media reporter. She covered the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids and wrote about the intersection of media and politics, her two favorite topics after the State of Texas.

As a politics reporter, Amy had the usual campaign trail experiences. When she got engaged, President Obama offered to send out the F.B.I. and Secret Service to check out her fiancé. Along the way, she met celebs from Charlie Rose to Kevin Spacey. President Trump has called her a “third-rate reporter,” and Vogue described her as looking “much younger than her 37 years.” (The magazine also said she “exudes the conspicuous authority of someone raised in Texas and trained in New York.”)

I met Amy when she was at The Wall Street Journal, where she became a master of the (usually) lighthearted A-hed. She wrote about cankles, hymen repair and cars. As a foreign correspondent, she was shamed by her Tokyo neighbors for putting her garbage in the wrong place — “We know who you are, Amy Chozick” — and confessed about it in print. And she wrote about rediscovering the shaved ice of her youth (in Texas) while living in Japan.

“When I worked with Amy, I was constantly amazed at her range, how she toggled so smoothly from breaking news, to colorful features, to lively first-person pieces, deep investigative stories and soft style pieces,” says Bill Brink.

I’m not sure what else to say about Amy except that her memoir about how 10 years of covering Hillary Clinton helped shape her 20s and 30s will be published in April and can be preordered on Amazon now.

And did I mention that she’s from Texas?

— Ellen

 

Nicole Kidman, Timothée Chalamet and Andy Serkis joined Jake Silverstein, editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, to celebrate the Magazine’s Great Performers issue at Neuehouse on December 7 in Los Angeles.

The special issue honors the 10 best actors of the year, as chosen by critics A.O. Scott and Wesley Morris. In a year defined by horror — at the movies and in the world at large — 2017’s best actors are cast in a series of frightening photographs and films, by Floria Sigismondi.

Guests in attendance were treated to a discussion with Scott and Morris about why the performers made this year’s list, as well as a screening of the short frightening films.

The issue comes out on Sunday, December 10.

Announced today, “The Daily,” The New York Times’s daily audio news report, was among the 16 winners of the prestigious 2018 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards.

The Times’s flagship podcast is being recognized for the strength of its “reporting, storytelling and impact in the public interest.”

“One of the signature achievements in podcasting this year, ‘The Daily’ gives listeners a seat at the table with Times reporters, raising the journalistic bar and inspiring a wave of imitators,” noted Columbia ​Journalism ​School in a press release.

Published weekday mornings, “The Daily” draws on the unrivaled quality and expertise of the Times’s 1,450 journalists. Not only does it offer listeners deeply reported analysis of the day’s most pressing stories, the show allows its audience to get to know Times reporters and understand the context required for them to get the full story. More than 120 Times journalists have joined host Michael Barbaro to drill down on the topic of the day.

Within nine months of its launch, “The Daily,” was downloaded more than 100 million times, and last month reached 4.5 million unique listeners. Even though it did not launch until February, “The Daily” is Apple’s most downloaded new show of the year. The show has quickly become one of the Times’s most beloved — and buzzed about — brands. New York Magazine, which just named “The Daily” one of the top podcasts of the year, called the show “a triumph, plain and simple.”

Lisa Tobin, the executive producer of Audio at The Times, said the award recognized countless hours of hard work by a small and passionate team.

“This award is a testament to a group of producers from all backgrounds of audio news and storytelling who rallied around a profound desire to find a new way to make sense of the world in this moment,” Lisa said. “The Daily team feels a deep sense of responsibility for having being given access to The Times newsroom in pursuit of that mission. Congratulations to the audio team and the dozens of journalists who have appeared on the show on a big award that is well deserved.”

Other recent honors for “The Daily” include being named to the list of best podcasts of 2017 by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

The New York Times Magazine today debuted its annual “Great Performers Issue,” honoring the 10 best actors of the year, as chosen by critics A.O. Scott and Wesley Morris.

In a year defined by horror — at the movies and in the world at large — we cast our favorite actors in a series of frightening photographs and films, by Floria Sigismondi.

The actors featured in this year’s issue include:

• Nicole Kidman: The Possessed
• Timothée Chalamet: The Cannibal
• Saoirse Ronan: The Mannequin
• Tiffany Haddish: The Macabre Dancer
• Jake Gyllenhaal: The Damned
• Daniela Vega: The Vampire
• Brooklynn Prince: The Demon Child
• Andy Serkis: The Demented Clown
• Cynthia Nixon: The Ghost Bride
• Daniel Kaluuya: The Psycho Killer

The issue comes out on Sunday, December 10.

The newsroom is redoubling its focus on audience and establishing three new leadership positions that will play central roles in developing our audience strategy and running our report. Read more in this note from Dean Baquet, executive editor, Joe Kahn, managing editor, James Bennet, editor, Editorial Page, and Cliff Levy, deputy managing editor:

Our journalism has never been stronger than in recent months — and our audience has responded. We now have more than 3.5 million paid subscriptions and more than 130 million monthly readers, more than double our audience just two years ago.

But we have more work to do if we’re going to realize our ambitions of reaching still more people with Times journalism and adding millions of subscribers in the years ahead.

That’s why we want to make 2018 the year of audience.

Our goal is to ensure that our audience is at the core of our work. That means developing an even clearer view of who we’re going after, how we can best compete for their time and attention and how we can demonstrate to those who don’t yet know us well that Times journalism is so valuable that it’s worth paying for.

To do so, we’re establishing three new leadership positions that will play central roles in the evolution and running of the newsroom and our report. Click the link in each job title to see a fuller description and learn how to apply.

• Newsroom Audience Director
• Off-Platform Editor
• On-Platform Editor

The new newsroom leaders will work closely with existing newsroom teams like Digital Transition, which is responsible for working with desks to translate audience strategies into coverage approaches and best practices for reporters and editors, as well as Analytics, Research and Newsroom Strategy. These leaders will also partner closely with Rebecca Grossman-Cohen, who serves as the company’s vice president for Audience and Platforms. Rebecca and her team, who will spend significant time in the newsroom, are responsible for organizing the development of our audience approach across the company, and for taking the lead on engaging with platforms like Facebook, Google and Apple.

We’re already starting from a strong position. The Audience Development group that Alex MacCallum led from 2014 to 2016 raised our game considerably by introducing digital audience  expertise, data and best practices into the newsroom for the first time. The Social Media and Search teams that remain part of the News Desk are among the best in the business. Our home screen teams program the most urgent and sophisticated report on the Internet — one soon to rise to greater heights as we develop our new home screen. The new Reader Center is helping us surface and respond to readers’ feedback far more quickly and smartly than ever before.

Now, we’re planning to build on these efforts. We’re eager to see who raises their hand to help us do it. And you can expect to hear much more from us about audience in the year ahead.

Dean, Joe, James and Cliff

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected its 10 contenders in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 90th Academy Awards, with The New York Times Op-Docs leading the way with three films selected to move forward in the competition.

The titles were chosen by voters from the Academy’s documentary branch, who viewed this year’s 77 eligible entries and submitted ballots.

The three Op-Docs include:

• “116 Cameras,” by Davina Pardo, which debuted on NYTimes.com in September. The film introduces us to Eva Schloss, a holocaust survivor who, having told shared her experience for more than thirty years, takes part in an innovative new attempt to preserve survivors’ stories in holographic form for future generations.
• “Alone,” by Garrett Bradley, which debuted on NYTimes.com in February after winning the jury award for best documentary short at the Sundance Film Festival and was recently the focus of a screening hosted by Ava Duvernay in Los Angeles. The film explores the dilemma of a single mother deciding whether to marry her jailed boyfriend.
• “Ten Meter Tower,” by Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson, which debuted on NYTimes.com in January as part of its series related to the Sundance Film Festival. On a ten-meter high diving tower, fear of taking the jump is pitted against the personal loss that would arise if you didn’t dare. What do we look like when we hesitate and when we make a decision? What does it look like when we overcome our fear?

In discussing the nominations, New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet said, “What an extraordinary tribute to the filmmakers and to the creative vision and hard work of the Op-Docs team, which continues day after day to extend the frontiers of powerful, deeply reported opinion journalism.”

Launched in 2011, Op-Docs is The New York Times’s Emmy-winning documentary film series. Highlighting both emerging and established directors and artists, the short documentaries of Op-Docs explore the most important issues facing our world. All Op-Docs can be seen at NYTimes.com/OpDocs.

Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on January 23, 2018.

Read the full list of the Documentary Short Subject contenders here.

The Times has been named a ‘Marketer of the Year‘ by Ad Age, one of only 10 brands to receive the honor.

Ad Age’s Megan Graham cites The Times’s record digital subscription growth, the influence of its “Truth is Hard” brand campaign, “blockbuster” investigative reporting out of The Times’s newsroom and product innovations like “The Daily” podcast, as some of the reasons The Times was chosen to receive the award.

According to Ad Age, the list “recognizes companies that, with insightful and inventive strategies, have conquered categories, forged fresh paths and resonated with consumers regardless of budget.” The full list of recipients is available here.