In 2000-2004, he worked for the Boston Globe as a war reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan and covering higher education in Boston and New England, for which he was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting. He has been an editor and correspondent at the New York Times since 2005. As a political correspondent, he covered the 2016 presidential election and in 2008 was the lead reporter covering Clinton’s campaign. He is currently a deputy culture editor at the Times, overseeing investigations relating to the arts.