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Barbara Chai

New York

Deputy Culture Editor, Strategy and Operations at The New York Times

Deputy Culture Editor, Strategy & Operations at The New York Times. Ex-WSJ.

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  • 2 days ago | editorandpublisher.com | Sia Michel |Michael Cooper |Matt Anderson |Barbara Chai

    We are delighted to announce that Tess Felder will be joining the Culture desk as a senior staff editor in London. Tess will assign, edit and write news stories and quick-turnaround off-the-news features, working with our European culture editor, Matt Anderson, and reporter Alex Marshall. European culture is a big patch — covering everything from contemporary art to TV across the continent — and Tess will help us keep on top of news events and follow pop culture trends as they bubble up.

  • Nov 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Barbara Chai

    Charles Yu's novel "Interior Chinatown" is about stories. Stories we tell ourselves, stories we tell about others. Stories where only certain people get to be the main characters while others, like the protagonist Willis Wu, are relegated to playing bit parts. Yu structured the novel in the format of a screenplay. The title follows the scriptwriting convention of scene headings, which specify where the action is taking place (for example, INT. UNMARKED POLICE CAR).

  • Oct 22, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Sia Michel |Barbara Chai

    We are thrilled to announce that Derrick Bryson Taylor, who has a sharp eye for breaking news ideas and popular culture, will be joining the Culture desk as a reporter. Derrick will cover breaking news in pop culture and other arts, and will eventually take on weekends. His pieces will take the form of traditional articles as well as explainers, visual stories and other new formats.

  • Dec 20, 2023 | nytimes.com | Robin Kawakami |Barbara Chai

    There’s no “Bah, humbug” here.

  • Nov 15, 2023 | nytimes.com | Barbara Chai

    When I was growing up, the holidays meant no school, which gave me the chance to curl up on the couch in a robe and fuzzy socks while drinking hot chocolate from a red thermos. Everyone gathered at home, and if we were lucky, there was snow falling outside, and we’d usually have one movie playing: “A Christmas Story.”Scenes from the movie became so familiar it was as if they had happened in real life. When Ralphie almost shoots his eye out. The decoder telling him to be sure to drink his Ovaltine.

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