A Promotion for Russell Goldman on International

Over the past decade, the International desk has often turned to Russell Goldman at critical moments. In Hong Kong, he pioneered our approach to live coverage as Covid spread around the world. As weekend editor, he helped direct our report through the first months of the war in Ukraine. And as a regional Middle East editor, he was one of the leaders of our coverage of the Oct. 7 attacks and the war in Gaza. In other words, he is one of the desk's most versatile editors and experienced leaders.

Now we have a new job for him: reinventing how we build and shape International coverage for digital audiences every day. We are thrilled to announce that Russell will be our senior global news editor, a promotion that will put him at the center of the International desk, working closely with Alison Mitchell to lead a team of editors around the world in setting our daily agenda and making what we produce more urgent, accessible and explanatory.

This is the latest evolution of the role we once called the day editor - before we became a global operation where it's always day and night somewhere - and we're excited about Russell's ambitions for it. He'll push to expand what we consider stories to be and how we tell them online, finding new ways to bring in readers, rather than always assigning traditional articles. He'll prioritize clarity, concision and speed, not to mention stronger headlines. He'll help the hubs work together more closely, especially during the hours they overlap. And he'll improve how we plan the rollout of enterprise, including new on-ramps to our reporting.

"Russell is the perfect fit for leading our reimagined global news structure - with his impeccable news judgment, management skills and ability to juggle multiple breaking stories while also planning the next day's coverage. He has a keen sense of what our readers care about and what makes a story sing on mobile and the web," said Suzanne Spector, deputy international editor.

Before joining The Times, Russell was a reporter and producer at ABC News for seven years, where he was the head writer of "Primetime Nightline" and covered the 2012 presidential election. In 2013, he was part of two ABC News teams that received the Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, and the Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Sandy. In 2017, while working in Hong Kong, he shared the Award for Excellence in the category of Breaking News from the Society of Publishers in Asia.