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I am delighted to announce that Liz Pierson has been promoted to Social Visuals Editor. Liz joined The Times in 2019, working as a photo editor before joining the Instagram team in 2020 to spearhead weekend coverage. She stepped into her assistant editor role in 2024, overseeing the day-to-day operations for visual coverage across The Times’s social platforms. Through her con...

The Travel desk has some staff updates to share. 36 Hours, one of the signature columns on the Travel desk has a new editor: Betsy Blumenthal, who joins The Times from Chase Travel, the Travel vertical of JPMorganChase, which she helped to launch in 2023. There, she wrote and edited travel guides to spots like Paris and Miami, did everything from sourcing photos to factchecki...

We are thrilled to announce that Patricia Mazzei, the longtime Florida bureau chief, has joined the Politics desk as a correspondent covering the high-stakes midterm elections, the 2028 presidential race, the future of the Republican Party and the ways in which red states like Florida are driving the national political and cultural conversation. From her perch on the National...

This summer, the entire planet will speak the same language: soccer. While the tournament is feeling inaccessible to many fans due to high transit fees, ticket pricing and more, The Athletic is making sure every fan can access the game by making its World Cup coverage free, enabling all fans to speak the language of soccer fluently. Through The Athletic app…

We are very happy to announce two hires in London for the Business desk’s newly relaunched international team. These represent a crucial next step in our plans for more ambitious and fulsome international coverage of business and economics. Jenny Gross is our new business and economics correspondent in Europe covering a range of consumer companies. She will also continue her ...