New colleagues, new roles, and new opportunities

We have some exciting personnel updates and openings!

Mike Miller joins us part-time for the next few months, primarily working with the Discourse team while also training and mentoring journalists across the newsroom. A beloved, widely admired, and award-winning editor, Mike for decades held senior editing and leadership roles at The Wall Street Journal after starting his 40+ year career there as a reporter. I'm so excited to have Mike in our newsroom, helping us with ideas and making us all better. He starts July 20th.

Thomas Gryta joins us, also for several months, as an editor for the Business team while Ashley Rodriguez is on parental leave. Tom also worked at the Journal, reporting on companies including AT&T and GE and also editing technology coverage. He won an award for his coverage of GE's decline and also co-authored a book about it. He will report to Steven Tweedie and starts July 20th.

Please also join me in congratulating these colleagues moving into new roles:

• Kasia Kovacs joins the editorial audience and O&O team as Audience Editor, UK. Kasia was previously our P&C operations specialist, and before that worked as a reporter and editor at different news outlets. She'll support homepage and push alerts and video distribution efforts. She reports to Hallam Bullock.
• Ben Shimkus joins us as a reporter on the Business team. Ben recently completed a fellowship on that team, primarily covering autos and AI. Previously, his work appeared in The Verge, Rolling Stone, and USA Today. He reports to Taylor Berman.
• Roya Shahidi joins us as a reporter on the Partnerships team. Roya recently completed a fellowship on the UK Business team, covering tech and retail news. Previously, she reported for financial newswire Alliance News and interned with the Journal. She reports to Lydia Warren.

And a warm welcome to our new class of fellows:

• Martina Nacach, economy fellow reporting to Andy Kiersz
• Sagarika Debnath, motion design fellow reporting to Colin Schappi
• Omarion Calloway, video distribution fellow reporting to Lilian Manansala
• Hongqian Li, data graphics fellow reporting to Randy Yeip
• Alix Berman, audience fellow reporting to Victoria Gracie
• Georgia Hennessy, news fellow reporting to Will Martin

Finally, here are our open roles at this time:

• Video Senior Producer, So Expensive
• Video Senior Editor, Big Business
• Managing Producer, shortform video
• Senior Distribution Strategist
• Leadership and Workplace Chief Correspondent
• Enterprise Correspondent
• Business Reporter, Singapore