NYT Opinion hires Stromberg as politics and economics editor – Talking Biz News

I’m happy to announce that Stefanus Stromberg will join Opion’s guest essay team to work on reporting on politics, economics and law. He will request, assign and edit fast-moving pieces, long-term projects and opinion pieces.

Stephen spent nearly two decades at The Washington Post, making him indispensable – as editor, writer, editorial board member and ultimately deputy editor of the opinion section. His extensive experience in opinion journalism includes editing analyzes with tight deadlines and longer-form investigative journalism, experimenting in new media, managing an audience team and writing columns and editorials, with award-winning results. The editorial he wrote during the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot was part of the package that won him the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. As editor, he oversaw David E. Hoffman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial series, The Annals of Autocracy.

In addition to covering six presidential elections, two of them as an editorial writer on politics, and interviewing presidents and presidential candidates (sadly, you’ll never read the endorsement he wrote in 2024), Stephen has written about everything going on, from the use of cell phones on airplanes to the repossession industry and the retirement of the greatest sumo wrestler of all time. And that doesn’t even include the pieces he assembled.

Before joining The Post, Stephen had covered American politics and economics for The Economist. He grew up in Los Angeles and began writing professionally as an intern for the editorial page of The Los Angeles Times. Stephen is now based in Washington, where he and his wife, Atlantic columnist Alexandra Petri, are raising two children.

Please welcome Stephen to Times Opinion.

–Lauren Kelley