New Deputy Editor for Magazine

The Magazine's redesign will introduce a new slate of weekly shortform franchises that we hope will become a part of the weekly habit for Times readers. And as you've all heard me say, these new franchises are only the beginning - we plan to experiment with and launch many more columns, recurring visual features and multiformat franchises in the months (and years) ahead. Channelling our best thinking and creativity into these forms and being continually inventive with them is a priority of the Magazine going forward.

For the past few months, we've been searching for a new deputy editor to direct this zone of activity, someone with vision, leadership, humor, style, exceptional news instincts, rigorously high standards, an ear for great writing and an eye for clever packaging. It took a little time, but the search led us to someone with all of those qualities and more, someone who is frankly the ideal candidate for this important job: I couldn't be happier to announce that our new deputy editor for columns is Noreen Malone.

As the editor of Sunday Business, Noreen is familiar to many of you already. We admire (and envy) stories she publishes on a regular basis. Just in the past few months there was Irina Aleksander's profile of Matthew Belloni or the recent pieces on Chinese peptides and prediction markets . Before Biz, during her run as an enterprise editor on the Styles desk, Noreen edited countless memorable stories and packages, including this (spot-on) Millennial Dad Canon , this travelogue through Montecito, or these examinations of Elon Musk's social calendar and Mark Zuckerberg's workout routine . And of course, she wrote her own sharp and funny piece for our 2022 Future of Work issue on the post-pandemic wave of people quitting their jobs .

Noreen was familiar to many of us long before coming to The Times. She hosted the fifth season of the popular Slate podcast "Slow Burn," a fascinating deep dive into the 18-month run-up to the invasion of Iraq (I highly recommend going back and listening in the current context). And of course, most of us probably first encountered Noreen's work during the many years she spent at New York magazine, first as a writer, then as a features editor and eventually as editorial director. During this time, Noreen helped spearhead some of New York's most memorable packages, including its landmark Bill Cosby cover story (which she co-reported and wrote) that won a George Polk Award; an impressive package on the rise of the alt-right and a close study of Jeffrey Epstein's elite social circle that took the brilliant form of a guided tour through his "little black book ."

Ellen Pollock had this to say: "Noreen has been a fabulous Sunday Business editor. She's creative, a great editor and a wonderful colleague. We are going to miss her a ton in Business but look forward to seeing her work at the Magazine."

At the Magazine, Noreen will bring her rigorous observation of business, tech, culture, politics and more to the numerous columns we're launching with this redesign. She'll manage the team of editors who are working on columns; she'll oversee the weekly lineup while also generating new ideas for shortform franchises and packages; and her boundless creativity and generative spirit will be a valuable part of our editorial brain trust. We're lucky to be adding Noreen's expertise to the Magazine at this important juncture. She's got a proven track record as a great spotter of talent and a terrific collaborator on projects large and small. And she has the vision, experience and ambition to create new things. She will play a crucial role in the next chapter of what we do here.

Please join me in welcoming Noreen aboard. Her first day with us will be April 20.

- Jake