The New York Times has announced rwo newsroom hires.
Sandhya Somashekhar will
join the Times Washington bureau as domestic policy editor in September. She will oversee coverage of policies affecting health care, education, immigration,
poverty and social issues.
Somashekhar arrives from The Washington Post, where she most
recently served as deputy business and technology editor.
She also worked as Metro reporter, a national politics reporter, a politics editor and an Outlook editor at
the Post. As a reporter, she was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams that covered the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, and
fatal police shootings.
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The new job requires “an editor with a keen instinct for news and accountability targets, a vision for how to illuminate the impact on the
ground and an eagerness to partner with other desks and pursue new story forms,” says Dick Stevenson, Washington bureau chief, and Matea Gold, Washington
editor. “Sandhya demonstrated those skills during her 20-year career at The Washington Post.”
In another hire, Angela Rozas O’Toole is joining the Standards desk as an assistant editor, starting on September 8.
O’Toole has worked for more than 20 years in Chicago journalism, most recently as the senior political editor for Chicago Public Media. She has also worked as a
reporter at The Chicago Tribune and as suburban editor and deputy metro editor.
“We expect Angela to play a crucial role on Standards as the
effects of new laws and administration executive orders are felt around the country and we head into midterm elections,” says a note penned by Susan Wessling, standards
editor; and Aisha Khan and Mike Abrams, deputy standards editors.