Occupation journalist Parents Dorothy Davids, Leo Kahn | Role Journalist Name Joseph Kahn | |
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Born August 19, 1964 (age 59) ( 1964-08-19 ) Boston, Massachusetts Education Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College, Harvard University Awards Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting People also search for Jim Yardley, Leo Kahn, Dorothy Davids | ||
Notable credits The New York Times | ||
Joseph Kahn (born August 19, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American journalist who currently serves as managing editor of The New York Times,.
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Biography
Kahn was assistant masthead editor for International at The Times from 2014 to September 2016. Prior to that, he served as International Editor since September 2011 and deputy foreign editor since February 2008. From July 2003 to December 2007, Kahn was the Beijing bureau chief at The Times. Previously, he was assigned to Shanghai. He was also a reporter in the Washington bureau, covering international economics and trade and on the business desk in New York, writing about Wall Street.
In 2006, Kahn and Jim Yardley won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. for the Times covering rule of law in China.
Kahn joined the Times in January 1998, after four years as China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Before the Journal, he was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News, where he was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for international reporting for their stories on violence against women around the world.
Kahn graduated from Harvard University in 1987, where he earned a bachelor's degree in American history and served as president of The Harvard Crimson. In 1990, he received a master's degree in East Asian studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Kahn and Executive Editor Dean Baquet have focused on restructuring The Times' newsroom, building a larger national and global investigative reporting staff and promoting visual story telling. They also recruited new leaders for the paper's business desk, prioritizing coverage of tech, economics, finance and global trade. They ended The Times print-oriented "copy desk" and replaced it with a editing model focused on "strong desks" that assign and do all the editing on the stories they produce. They set a goal to hire at least 100 new journalists in 2017 and to diversify the reporting staff.
Previously, Kahn served as the newsroom leader behind NYT Global, an internal group that aimed to internationalize the New York-based company. The group established major newsroom hubs in London and Hong Kong. NYT Global has helped increase The Times' total readership and digital subscribers outside the United States, especially in Canada, Australia and the UK. It also oversees publication in other languages, including Spanish and Chinese.
Personal
Kahn is a son of Leo Kahn (1916–2011), founder of the Purity Supreme supermarket chain in New England and co-founder of the global office supply chain Staples, and Dorothy Davidson (d. 1975).