In a note to employees, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times,
and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, said Ms. Ryan would “play a key role in building the newsroom of the future.” The Times, they said, would be “hiring dozens of journalists in the next couple of years,” even as it reduces the size of the newsroom.
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on Thursday named Carolyn Ryan, who led its politics coverage during the presidential campaign, to the masthead, the second time in less than two weeks
that a woman was brought into the highest leadership ranks of the newsroom.
Leaders of The Times have also said repeatedly that the newsroom would be getting smaller,
and journalists already at the company are bracing for staff reductions.
The promotion comes a little more than a week after the announcement
that Rebecca Blumenstein, a top editor at The Wall Street Journal, would join The Times as a deputy managing editor, one of the newsroom’s top leadership positions.
Before she was named senior editor for politics in September 2015, Ms. Ryan oversaw
coverage of Washington as politics editor and Washington bureau chief.
