New Role for Kaly Soto

We are thrilled to announce that Kaly Soto has returned to the United States to become our global news editor for evenings in New York. She will be part of a team of new leaders on the International desk dedicated to constantly improving our digital report, making it more urgent, accessible and authoritative, around the clock and around the world.

We expect Kaly to reinvent the traditional night editor role, further entrusting the print report to our colleagues on the Print Hub while focusing International's attention on news, stories and headlines for our enormous online audience during these critical U.S. hours, especially on the West Coast.

Kaly comes to this new role after a four-year stint as the London night editor. She moved to London three months before the pandemic, working for the News Desk. Her first official assignment on International was working on the coronavirus blog.

During her time in London, Kaly has edited and assigned stories coming from all corners of the globe, and has built relationships with reporters in bureaus from Rome to Johannesburg. She has also taken full advantage of her time overseas, visiting dozens of countries and cities and several Times bureaus.

"Kaly is the colleague you can always count on to raise her hand to help out, well before being asked," said Kim Fararo, the deputy Europe editor, who has been Kaly's supervisor. "She's also passionate about mentoring younger colleagues. They, and all of us in Europe, will miss her."

Kaly knows the newsroom, its rhythms and its intricacies. Before moving into international news, Kaly worked as the deputy weekend editor on the News Desk, programming the weekend homepages. She also worked as an editor on Culture and on the National desk. And in a short departure to food journalism, she helped start the Cooking app and edited Sam Sifton's Cooking newsletter.

Kaly came to The Times in 2003 from The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Before that she worked at her hometown paper, The Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore.

Her new job will bring her back to California and she plans to work from our Los Angeles office.

Kaly starts in September.