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We are happy to share news about recent hires and promotions on the Audience team.

Isaac Brown

I’m delighted to announce that Isaac Brown has joined the technical search team. He’ll lead our Wirecutter technical S.E.O. strategy and roadmap, partnering closely with Sebastian Compagnucci, and occasionally helping out on Core News.

Isaac grew up in Singapore and before he joined The Times, he was leading S.E.O. efforts for the financial news sites MarketWatch and Barron’s.

— Christine Liang

Morgan Greenwald

I’m thrilled to announce that Morgan Greenwald has joined the Audience team as a senior search editor and as my deputy, helping oversee day-to-day editorial search operations.

Before joining the editorial search team, Morgan served as a senior S.E.O. manager at Penske Media, overseeing S.E.O. strategy for entertainment brands including Variety, Rolling Stone and Deadline. She also previously worked at NBC News, where she handled editorial S.E.O. for Select, NBC’s commerce vertical.

A native New Yorker, Morgan spent four years in Los Angeles attending the University of Southern California before returning home.

— Vic Niemeyer

Emma Lumeij

I’m happy to announce that Emma Lumeij has joined the Audience team as an audience editor for our lifestyle desks, including The Book Review, Real Estate and Travel, reporting to me and working closely with their strategy and operations deputy, Farah Miller.

Emma joined the newsroom in 2019 as an assistant to Joe Kahn, and moved onto the Newsroom Strategy team in 2021. Most recently, she sharpened her audience development skill set while embedding with the Real Estate desk as an audience editor.

“Emma has been an important asset to our desk and our journalism,” Real Estate’s editor, Nikita Stewart, said. “Her quick thinking leads to a better report for us.”

In her new role, Emma will continue working with Real Estate, and scale her work across the other desks in her portfolio. “Emma’s facility with data and analytic approach to editorial planning makes her a perfect fit for this role,” Farah said. “She helps our teams see the forest for the trees, and I am thrilled to have her as a thought partner.”

Originally from New York City, Emma graduated from Haverford College, with a bachelor’s in English.

— Mitch Dozois

Kendall Blomfield

We’re thrilled to announce that Kendall Blomfield has joined the Audience team as associate audience editor, Styles, reporting to Jennie Coughlin.

Kendall was our 2023-24 audience fellow, and impressed all of us with her versatility and drive. In this new role she is helping Styles to deepen its engagement with readers by staying on top of trends, presenting regular insights and leading audience planning for large projects. She is also running the Styles Instagram account, and by experimenting with new posting strategies has seen continued growth on this important platform.

“Not only is Styles excited to have its own audience editor but we’re thrilled that Kendall has been hired into the role,” Minju Pak, deputy editor of Styles, said. “We had the pleasure of working with her during her fellowship and were impressed with her work ethic, meticulousness and curiosity.”

Kendall previously worked as a researcher at Boston Consulting Group and for a nonprofit organization in Boston.

Jenna Fowler

I’m very pleased to (belatedly) formally announce that Jenna Fowler, Politics audience editor, has added Washington to her audience editor portfolio. While her focus will remain largely on Politics through the election, Jenna is also providing weekly insights to Washington and serving as a trusted audience adviser on big projects for the desk.

Jenna joined the Politics desk in July 2023 and has been a core member of the team ever since.

“Jenna turned the lights on for the Politics desk, giving us all kinds of useful information, often in real time, to help us grab and keep our audience’s attention and meet its needs — all while showing the utmost respect and deference to our journalism,” David Halbfinger said. “She’s a valued contributor to our headline workshops, an always positive presence in every meeting, a pillar of our esprit de corps and a source of excellent ideas.”

Jenna started at The Times on the Editorial Search team. Before that, she worked as an audience editor at The San Francisco Chronicle and for Google on its Trends team. She is originally from the Bay Area.

— Mitch Dozois

Christine Nguyen

I’m thrilled to announce that Christine Nguyen has joined the Audience team as our visuals editor for sub-brands. Working with colleagues in the newsroom and across The Athletic, Cooking, Games, Wirecutter and Audio, Christine will help shape the way our sub-brand offerings appear on our main New York Times social accounts.

Christine joins us after spending a year freelancing for a number of newsrooms, working with PBS Independent Lens, The Dallas Morning News, Semafor and The Associated Press. Before that, she reported and produced long-form features and special projects for NBC News’s Digital Documentaries and Opinion teams.

In 2021, she served as a founding staff producer for the pilot season of “The Overview,” a Peacock original weekly news magazine show, building the series from the ground up while guiding the editorial vision and creative direction. As her first job out of college, she worked as a producer for New York magazine, where she helped launch the magazine’s first video program.

Christine moved from Houston to join The Times and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

— Jake Grovum

Chloe Shakin

We’re thrilled to announce that Chloe Shakin has joined our London audience team as a social editor.

Leading our social report during key hours from London, Chloe strategizes programming for our international and U.S. audiences. She also provides regular reporting to the London newsroom on our audience performance and identifies coverage opportunities based on social trends and competitive analysis.

Chloe comes to the newsroom from The Times’s Growth team, where she started as an intern in 2017 and returned full time the following year. In her most recent role, she built and managed the content marketing programs for News, Cooking and Games, coming up with successful initiatives to drive subscriptions and amplify our journalism across external platforms.

Chloe studied English and journalistic writing at the University of Pennsylvania. While working at The Times, she received a Master of Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in data journalism. As a top graduate of her class, Chloe received a Pulitzer traveling fellowship, which she spent reporting on treatment for new mothers with postpartum psychosis in Britain. The story that resulted from it was recently published by Well and selected as a Great Read.

Chloe started her new role from New York and moved to London in early June.

Please join us in welcoming Chloe!

— Lara Takenaga, Lillian Chen and Jake Grovum

Jordan Allen

I’m thrilled to announce that Jordan Allen has joined Audience full-time as our newest social editor. She had been the team’s news assistant since 2022, working on a number of different projects and on social, helping to run the accounts day to day and tracking our performance over time through regular reports and our daily social wrap-up notes.

In her new role, Jordan helps shape our social report every day across all the platforms we’re active on, along with experimenting with new ones as they come up. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Jordan has been at The Times for five years and has worked across the newsroom on several desks and initiatives as a news assistant, including the Covid-19 Tracker project in 2020.

Please join me in welcoming Jordan to the social team!

— Jake Grovum