Joe Kahn

As the executive editor of The New York Times, Joe Kahn oversees all aspects of its global newsroom and news reports. Prior to this role, he served as managing editor, leading the newspaper’s push to become a fully digital-first news operation, build a global news operation, transform the newsroom’s culture to be more diverse and inclusive, and encourage new forms of storytelling.

A two-time Pulitzer winner, Kahn has a long track record of both producing and helping other journalists produce their most ambitious and courageous work. 

His career started in 1987 at The Dallas Morning News, before he become a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He joined The New York Times in 1998 and has served as a business reporter in New York, an economics correspondent in Washington, and a foreign correspondent in China. As an editor on the International desk, and eventually its leader, Kahn led coverage of some of the publication’s most complex storylines, including wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria; terrorism attacks and political turmoil in Europe; and the Ebola epidemic in Africa. During this time, the International desk won six Pulitzer Prizes.