Vera Titunik

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.

It’s September, and all across the country high school seniors are setting up their Common Application accounts, retaking SATs, and struggling to write (or procrastinating the writing of) 650 words that convey, in a tidy narrative, who they are, the challenges they have overcome in their 17 years on Earth, and why, Dear College Admissions Person, they really deserve to attend Your Excellent University! Paul Tough is the author of The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. Buy...

The Wired hires continue with the addition of Vera Titunik, Jason Parham and Ivylise Simones to the publication. Titunik joins as features editor and will be based out of New York when she starts on July 17. She arrives from newyorker.com, where she was executive editor. Prior to joining the New Yorker last spring, she had been Sunday Business editor at The New York Times and story editor at The New York Times Magazine before then. Prior to joining the Times, she had been a senior editor at Fortune.