Editor, Free Expression Advocate
News
For seven years, I was one of the main assignment editors on the International Desk of The New York Times, coordinating and editing breaking news coverage worldwide. As day editor from 2021 to 2024, I helped lead its award-winning coverage of the wars in Israel-Gaza and Ukraine.
At the Associated Press, I was New York City news editor during and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. →
Free Expression
My background also includes extensive experience in human rights and press freedom. I worked for nearly a decade as the editorial director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonpartisan, international nonprofit that defends all journalists whose ability to report freely and whose lives, safety and freedom are at risk. →
About
My expertise includes staff and project management, innovation and adherence to standards in high-intensity situations and news production in all formats. I’m a member of the Trans Journalists Association. →
Recent Articles
- As a Gender Critic’s Influence Grew, So Did Concerns About Cis Adolescents in Her Care Assigned Media
- ‘Power and Dominance’: Atlantic and Times Champion Transphobia Assigned Media
- ‘A Shameful Chapter’: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream Assigned Media
- Behind the Right’s Attacks on Trans Girls in Sports Assigned Media
- Corporate Media’s Queer Purge Assigned Media
- America Was Once a Place For Brighter Futures Assigned Media
- Attacks on the Press in 2011: Working in Peril Committee to Protect Journalists
- Attacks on the Press in 2011: Impunity on Trial Committee to Protect Journalists