Susan Chira
'Times' staffers gather for bullpen memorial for Anthony Shadid; his final piece published today
Shadid will have one last byline in the Times encompassing his recent reporting from Syria, possibly as early as this weekend, according to people familiar with the paper's plans. His most recent article before that, a piece out of Tripoli, was in the Feb. 9 edition. More
February 17, 2012 3:43 pm
An insider takes over the 'Times' foreign desk, in an unlikely period of expansion amid international turmoil
"The proliferation of world events is kind of more massive than I've seen in my three years on the desk and Susan has seen in her almost eight," the Times new foreign editor, Joe Kahn, tells Capital. "We obviously have had major big stories before but the number of different things all happening at once, and the challenge of covering all of those intelligently and presenting them in real time on the web, intelligently; it's sort-of three-dimensional. It's pushed us in new directions, but a lot more pressure on our correspondents now than we might have if we had the same series of events 10 years ago when we were mostly thinking of how to sup-up once a day for the newspaper." More
September 13, 2011 10:20 am
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