Michael Slackman

She has helped guide coverage of so many of the world’s major events over the last 20 years, has partnered with just about every desk and discipline across the report and helped transform the London newsroom into a true multi-department hub driving coverage wherever in the world. Now, Kim Fararo is bringing all that talent, energy and wisdom to bear on the whole newsroom.

By now, we all should know Mohammed Hadi. Mo joined The Times in 2018 as the Business desk’s first news director. He was promoted to deputy business editor and then in 2024 principal deputy business editor. And now, as you have likely noticed, Mo is taking on his biggest role yet at The Times: He is our next news director, days. How fortunate we all are. Mo takes on this pivotal position at a time when the news is nonstop and of tremendous consequence. He is the perfect editor for the role.

When Amber Williams was named editorial director of The New York Times for Kids in 2021, the announcement described her as “thoughtful, dedicated, generous, creative, thoughtful and ambitious.’’ Notice “thoughtful.” Twice. That announcement got it right. Amber is all of those things, and now she is bringing her skills, smarts and, yes, thoughtfulness, to the newsroom’s hub as a senior editor on the new News Desk. Amber may be known to many of you.