List of The New York Times employees
This is a list of former and current "New York Times" employees, reporters, and columnists. Current. Masthead. List of masthead employees as of August 2020: News Opinion Business Bureau chiefs. Domestic bureaus Foreign bureaus Foreign bureaus (cont.) Op-ed columnists. Opinion columnists as of August 2021: Former. Editorial page editors. "Titled Editor-in-Chief or Editor until retirement of Merz but never had authority over news pages." Public editors. The public editor position was established in 2003 in response to the Jayson Blair scandal. In late May 2017, "The New York Times" announced  that it was eliminating the post. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. announced: "The public editor position, created in the aftermath of a grave journalistic scandal, played a crucial part in rebuilding our readers’ trusts by acting as our in-house watchdog. We welcomed that criticism, even when it stung. But today, our followers on social media and our readers across the internet have come together to collectively serve as a modern watchdog, more vigilant and forceful than one person could ever be."