The New York Times Announces Editorial Page Appointments

Business Wire, Dec 19, 2006

NEW YORK -- The New York Times announced today the appointment of Carla Anne Robbins as deputy editorial page editor and David Shipley as deputy editorial page editor in a newly created position.

Ms. Robbins will work with Andrew Rosenthal, the incoming editorial page editor of The Times, to lead the editorial board, as well as oversee the Letters to the Editor and production staffs. Mr. Shipley, in addition to continuing in his current role as Op-Ed page editor, will also focus on expanding and enhancing The Times's editorial presence online. The appointments are effective January 7.

The Times also announced that Adam Cohen, an assistant editorial page editor, will take on expanded responsibilities, including a special focus on the editorial board's New York regional coverage and on national politics.

In making the announcement Mr. Rosenthal said, "These appointments will better position us for the future as we continue to innovate our opinion report and expand our coverage in the digital world. Carla is extraordinarily smart, with a deep background in diplomatic reporting, Washington reporting and national security reporting. She has impressed us all with the strength of her arguments, the depth of her knowledge and her skill at initiating and guiding debate. David has demonstrated excellence as an editor, a manager and a leader. Most of what we in Editorial are doing online falls within the Op-Ed framework, and this part of our endeavor requires high-level attention and mastery of the online space, which David will very ably provide."

Of Mr. Cohen, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School and the author of two books, Mr. Rosenthal said, "Adam is expert in the law and on the nation's dysfunctional voting system. He is deeply immersed in politics, especially as it plays out on the Internet. He's one of our most nimble thinkers and best writers."

Ms. Robbins, 53, joined The New York Times as an editorial board member and assistant editorial page editor in July 2006.

Before coming to The Times, Ms. Robbins had been a reporter and news editor at The Wall Street Journal, and a reporter at US News & World Report and Business Week. She received a 2003 Georgetown University Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting. At The Wall Street Journal, she was a member of the team that received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and the team that received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Ms. Robbins was also a member of teams that shared the 2004 Elizabeth Neuffer Award for Print Journalism, given by the U.N. Correspondents' Association, and the 2004 Peter R. Weitz Senior Prize, awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. At Business Week, she shared an Overseas Press Club award in 1984.

Ms. Robbins received her bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1974. She holds a master's and a doctorate, both in political science, from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University and has been a Hoover media fellow at Stanford University.

Mr. Shipley, 43, became Op-Ed editor for The New York Times in January 2003. Mr. Shipley had been the national enterprise editor since 2001. Before that, he had been senior editor of The New York Times Magazine from 1999 to 2000 and deputy editor of the Magazine's Millennium Project from 1998 to 1999.

Before rejoining The Times in 1998, he served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter. He had been the executive editor of The New Republic Magazine from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Shipley came to The Times in September 1990 as an assigning editor for the Op-Ed Page.

He received a bachelor's degree in English from Williams College and was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.

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