Jim has also been deputy national editor and the Op-Ed editor before coming back to the newsroom last year. Among his great joys during that time was that he got to edit Jim Dwyer. He was embedded with special operations forces during the invasion of Iraq and spent several months in northern Afghanistan to chronicle the deployment of an Army battalion for an award-winning interactive series “ A Year At War.” He has also been a national correspondent, and a Congressional and Pentagon reporter. He covered the 2000 presidential campaign of Bill Bradley. He came to The Times as a general assignment reporter on Metro, before moving to Albany to cover the final term of Gov. Jim was raised in Buffalo and got into journalism covering Queens and immigration for The New York Daily News. He is taking over a staff that has produced a run of investigative reporting, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning series, and has the writers to tell the stories of how the city’s education system, real estate market, finances, health care system and its neighborhoods will change in the coming years.įew editors are better prepared to lead coverage of New York, its people and politics. Jim will oversee the most consequential mayoral race in many years, and the epic story of the rebuilding of a city devastated by the pandemic. But he is also a reporter’s editor and a generous colleague - attentive, empathetic and collaborative. Those of you who have been lucky enough to work with Jim know his journalistic talents and his ability to shape almost any kind of story. That editor is Jim Dao, and we are pleased to tell you that he will be our new Metro editor. The moment demands an editor passionate about New York, steeped in its history and capable of inspiring a staff to imagine its future. The city’s political, economic, cultural and social future is a subject of intense global interest and huge impact. Few stories are as big and important to The Times than the future of New York.
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