Kathleen Kingsbury, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has led the editorial page of The New York Times on an interim basis since June, officially became the newspaper’s opinion editor on Friday, the company said.
Ms. Kingsbury, 41, will oversee a department of more than 100 staff members responsible for unsigned editorials, Op-Eds, the weekly Sunday Review section, and podcasts like “Sway” and “The Argument.” Two past editorial page editors, Howell Raines and Max Frankel, went on to run the Times newsroom as executive editors immediately after holding the job.
Ms. Kingsbury, who grew up in Portland, Ore., joined The Times as deputy editorial page editor in 2017 after a four-year stint at The Boston Globe. There she served as managing editor for digital and won a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for a series on the mistreatment of restaurant workers. She took over The Times’s opinion section on an acting basis after the resignation of its previous head, James Bennet.
Mr. Bennet, who had been seen as a candidate to succeed Dean Baquet as The Times’s executive editor, left after the publication of an Op-Ed essay by Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, arguing for the deployment of troops in response to civil unrest. More than 800 staff members signed a letter in protest of the Op-Ed, and The Times appended an editors’ note to the essay stating that it “fell short of our standards and should not have been published.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/business/media/nyt-opinion-editor-kathleen-kingsbury.html
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