Ellen Pollock

New York

Editor of Biz Day at The New York Times

Editor of Biz Day @nytimes. Former editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, former editor and reporter @WSJ, always a chocolate expert.

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Rebecca Davis O’Brien joins Business at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Kevin McKenna |Kevin Mckenna |Mo Hadi

We’re delighted to announce that Rebecca Davis O’Brien, fresh from 22 scoop-filled months on Politics, has joined the economics team on the Business desk to cover the national labor scene. Rebecca’s time on the campaign was spent largely, and memorably for readers, covering the role of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — as a Democratic presidential aspirant turned independent candidate turned Trump ally, with a recurring subtheme of his curious encounters with wildlife.
Tony Romm joins The New York Times - Editor and Publisher

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Richard Stevenson |Deborah Solomon

We are thrilled to announce that Tony Romm will be joining The Times as our new economic policy correspondent. This is a familiar role for Tony, who covered economic policy at The Washington Post, where he broke numerous stories during both the Biden and first Trump administration. He also put together The Post’s Covid Money Trail series, which included tons of scoops on federal spending.
Jess Testa moves to media team at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher

Jan 24, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Joe Plambeck |Pui-Wing Tam |Mo Hadi

We’re delighted that Jess Testa has joined the media team from Styles to help the Business desk cover the country’s increasingly fractured media landscape. The presidential campaign showed how people have changed the way they consume news and how varied the American media diet has become in just a few years. What people watch, listen to and read is often produced by companies outside the traditional media industry. Jess’s job is to cover the characters and companies that inhabit this new world.
Colby Smith joins The New York Times - Editor and Publisher

Jan 23, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Dick Stevenson |Deborah Solomon

We are thrilled to announce that Colby Smith of The Financial Times is joining The Times as our new Federal Reserve correspondent. Colby joins the economics team after nearly seven years at The F.T., where she most recently led the paper’s coverage of the Fed and the world’s largest economy as U.S. economics editor. In that role, she also wrote about the Treasury department, International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
The New York Times: Aaron Krolik joins Business desk - Editor and Publisher

Aug 4, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Ashwin Seshagiri |Mohammed Hadi |Pui-Wing Tam

Few people come home from their day jobs, pore over terabytes of leaked data in a language they don’t speak and help win a Pulitzer Prize for it. That’s Aaron Krolik. Over the last six years, as he has developed tools and formats for the Interactive News Technology department, Aaron has on the side worked on many high-touch, award-winning stories with Business and other desks, doing data reporting, scraping websites and reverse engineering apps.
The New York Times announces new role for Emma Goldberg - Editor and Publisher

Jul 17, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Vera Titunik |Mo Hadi

For the last two years, while many companies have returned to work in person, readers have turned to Emma Goldberg again and again to understand the future of work. Emma stepped into a critical role reporting on the workplace when “return to office” was dominating conversations around the world, and workers and managers were navigating the new work landscape as Covid waves came and went. Through it all, Emma owned her beat in her first reporting role at The Times.
The New York Times names new correspondent in Washington - Editor and Publisher

Jul 7, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Elisabeth Bumiller |Ellen Pollock |Deborah Solomon

We’ve very excited to announce that Andrew Duehren of The Wall Street Journal has joined The Times as our new tax policy correspondent in the Washington bureau. Andy arrives to join our D.C. economics team after six years at The Journal, where he began as an intern in the Washington bureau before joining the congressional team covering fiscal policy.
Vera Titunik returns to Business desk at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher

May 20, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock

I’m thrilled to announce that Vera Titunik is joining the Business department. Really, I should be saying rejoining. For the last three years, Vera has been deputy editor at Headway here at The Times, where she edited enterprise stories delving into national and community challenges and solutions. During a previous 13-year stint at The Times, Vera was an editor at the Magazine and Sunday Business editor.
Rebecca Elliott joins Business at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher

May 10, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Mo Hadi |Kevin McKenna |Kevin Mckenna |Vikas Bajaj

We’re excited to announce that Rebecca Elliott of The Wall Street Journal will be joining the Business desk as an energy reporter based in New York. Rebecca has covered Tesla for more than three years. Previously, she spent almost three years as a Houston-based energy reporter for The Journal, covering the shale boom and its impact on the industry and the economy.
The New York Times names new deputy media editor - Editor and Publisher

May 8, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Ellen Pollock |Pui-Wing Tam |Joe Plambeck

We’re delighted to announce that Erin Mershon, a passionate and talented editor, is joining The Times as a deputy media editor. Erin comes from Stat, where she has delivered a string of agenda-setting and award-winning coverage from her perch as Washington bureau chief and associate managing editor, showing a knack for turning complicated topics into compelling stories.