New York Times : Editor on Special Sections

Published: 2026-04-29 13:54:13 ET NYT

Published on 04/29/2026 at 01:54 pm EDT

Special Sections is excited to announce that Fahima Haque will join us in May as a senior staff editor, working to help invent, assign, edit and promote the enormous number and variety of sections we produce each year for both domestic and international print and digital editions of The New York Times.

Fahima spent the last five and a half years on National, focused on audience strategy and working specifically with the search and social teams to reach more readers. She took over as editor of Race/Related, the weekly newsletter aimed at beefing up coverage of race and attracting a more diverse readership. She is an accomplished editor who is passionate about growing readership across platforms, with proven experience doing exactly that.

Since joining The Times in December 2016, she has worked to amplify our journalism to broad audiences, first on the Social team and then on Newsroom Development and Support. She has embedded on several desks, teaching an array of digital and visual storytelling tools.

On Special Sections, she will think deeply about how to reach readers through the journalism we produce, as well as help us create even more impactful sections. As she did on National, she will work on audience strategy to spread our work even further.

Those skills will be highly valuable on Special Sections, where we are always seeking new ideas to attract audiences and new ways to get and keep readers focused on our stories, which range from arts to sports to global issues and yes, even watches and jewelry.

"Fahima was the first desk audience editor for National, and she played a crucial role in bringing our insights and best practices to the desk," said Jennie Coughlin, a senior Audience editor.

"We're sad to lose her from the Audience team, but excited for her next opportunity."

Fahima came to The Times from The Guardian, where she edited stories in the news, arts, features and business sections. Before that, she was a home page editor at The New York Post. She began her career at The Washington Post, where she produced and reported for The Root

DC, which covered the Black community in the nation's capital.

Fahima lives in Queens, where she grew up. Aside from looking forward to her new role, she is working on a few fiction writing projects and training for the New York City Marathon in the fall.

In the meantime, when she is not running, writing and editing, she is getting her garden ready for tomato season.

We eagerly await her arrival.

- Jane

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