New York Times : Announcing Changes on the Newsroom Careers Team

Published: 2021-09-22 07:42:17 ET NYT

We are thrilled to announce two moves on the newsroom's careers team.

Alexa Mills, who has spent the last 15 months as writing coach for The New York Times Fellowship, has been promoted to senior editor. In her new role, Alexa will help oversee the new Editing Residency, as well as continue to work on other career-related projects with the team.

Since arriving at The Times in May 2020, Alexa has helped guide the writing of our fellowship classes and emerged as a pillar of support. She has consulted with fellows on their copy and story ideas-by day, night and weekend, always counseling, sometimes cajoling, occasionally comforting. She also has reimagined the potential of the position by creating and executing a year-long regimen of training sessions. And she has played a critical role in helping the team evaluate applications for the Times Fellowship and other programs.

In her new role, Alexa will lead the Editing Residency, a new two-year program aimed at developing the next generation of editors for The Times and industry.

Alexa is the former editor of the Washington City Paper, where she directed the newsroom and a stable of freelance reporters. She has also freelanced for a number of publications, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, where her recent stories have brought attention to the lynching of a black soldier at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1941.

Alexa also is a person of many talents. She was previously director of media projects at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Community Innovators Lab, at M.I.T.

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