• by Ray Schultz , August 24, 2022

The New Yorker has hired Paul Moakley as the executive producer for its video team. 

Moakley joins the New Yorker from Time, where he served as an editor at large, overseeing special projects. Prior to that,  he was deputy director of photography and visual enterprise. 

While at Time, he reported and produced The Opioid Diaries, the magazine's most extensive photo essay, told in 64 pages by the photographer James Nachtwey and designed by David Kofahl.  

Moakley has also reported from Liberia in 2014 during the Ebola outbreak.

In addition, the Emmy-award-winner Moakley has been an adjunct professor of contemporary photography history at the School of Visual Arts.

Moakley reports to Soo-Jeong Kang, The New Yorker’s executive director of video.