We are excited to announce that Alexandria Symonds is the news editor in Graphics, a new role in our editing leadership group.
Alex will be responsible for shaping and driving a strategy for how we cover daily news on the desk. This will include leading and editing our breaking news coverage, managing how we’re covering multiple newsy storylines, and coordinating these efforts with the rest of the newsroom. Other backfield editors will continue to be involved in daily news, and Alex will ensure that our team is prepared for these moments.
Her new role reflects our department’s goal of taking ambitious visual approaches to breaking news and the quick-hit enterprise projects that are essential to Times coverage. She will be the leader of our news team, which includes Laz Gamio, our senior staff editor for news, and will react to and manage breaking news. Laz will continue to create quick-turn graphics and help to manage this coverage. Of course, other graphics editors and story editors will work on breaking news, as in our ambitious coverage of the conflict in Gaza and Israel.
Alex has already demonstrated excellent news instincts and has brought a sense of urgency to our coverage. Since joining the desk in late 2020, Alex has edited a wide range of visual news and enterprise stories. She has been one of our lead editors on the war in the Middle East. She also guided an ambitious project to show the history of the vast Native American boarding school system. And she was the editor of a cross-desk project on the use of cluster munitions in the Ukraine war that was part of The Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning entry.
Her colleagues frequently praise her news judgment and leadership, and we’re thrilled for her to become our news editor. Please congratulate Alex on her new role!
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