19/08/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 20/08/2024 00:36
We are pleased to announce that Caroline Houck will join the International desk as a senior staff editor, helping to make our biggest stories more accessible to more people around the world.
Caroline will fortify our weekend crew in New York, which has juggled breaking news over countless Saturdays and Sundays. She will also help build out our push for more explanatory journalism, tackling a key goal for the newsroom.
Caroline comes to us from Vox, where she most recently launched and oversaw its flagship daily morning newsletter, Today, Explained. Before that, she ran Vox's international coverage, on topics including the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, helping Vox deliver approachable explainers and creative multimedia interactives. She previously edited on Vox's politics and weekend teams, during which time she led coverage of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and edited stories about the 2020 election and former President Donald Trump's impeachments.
Overall, she impressed us with her enthusiasm for explanatory journalism and her confidence in trying new approaches to delivering news and ideas. We can't wait to see what she does here.
"Caroline is a fantastic editor, a great mentor to reporters and a savvy newsroom leader who has covered some of the toughest stories in the world," said Ryan McCarthy, her former supervisor at Vox and current editor of Climate Forward at The Times. "I've learned a tremendous amount from her, and I'm thrilled she's joining The Times."