Promotions and New Hires on Audience

I'm delighted to announce that Jennie Coughlin is being promoted to senior audience editor, Metro, and is now my deputy on the Desk Audience Editors team. She's been a critical partner to me as we expand the cohort of audience editors embedded on desks.

Jennie started on Metro two years ago and has become an integral part of Metro's operations during that time. "I would call Jennie Metro's secret weapon, but the secret is out: She has helped the desk in ways big and small, getting more readers' eyes on our reporters' hard-won stories (and even pitching in a few of her own at marathon time)," Nestor said. "She has become an essential part of our team."

She will continue her work with Metro, while also helping set curricula for desk audience editors on best practices, regularly reviewing desk reports and leading strategic deep dives.

Jennie started at the Times in 2019 on the search team as the early morning S.E.O. editor. Before that, she worked in local newsrooms in New Jersey, upstate New York, Virginia and Massachusetts.

- Mitch Dozois