{"id":39561,"date":"2011-01-25T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=39561"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:16","slug":"ryan-metro-editor-nytimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/01\/25\/ryan-metro-editor-nytimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Ryan &#039;86 named editor of the &#039;soul&#039; of The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Ryan &#8217;86 has been named metropolitan editor of <em>The New York Times<\/em>, according to the paper&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/19\/times-names-new-metro-editor\/\">Media Decoder<\/a> blog and<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5738043\/new-york-times-names-carolyn-ryan-metro-editor\"> other outlets.<\/a> In her three and a half years at the <em>Times<\/em>, Ryan has &#8220;steered the paper\u2019s coverage of some of the biggest regional political stories in recent memory,&#8221; according to executive editor Bill Keller&#8217;s memo to <em>Times<\/em> staff, including the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for which the paper won a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/citation\/2009-Breaking-News-Reporting\">Pulitzer Prize.<\/a> The Metro section is the paper&#8217;s &#8220;soul,&#8221; writes Keller, and it requires an editor &#8220;both deft and driven, a balance of restlessness and patience, and a sturdy spine. An irreverent sense of humor helps&#8230;. Carolyn Ryan is that kind of editor.&#8221; Previously, Ryan served as deputy\u00a0metropolitan editor in charge of the section&#8217;s political coverage. <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/19\/times-names-new-metro-editor\/\">View <em>New York Times<\/em> blog post from Jan. 19, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Ryan &#8217;86 has been named metropolitan editor of The New York&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,195,11009],"tags":[11051,10777],"class_list":["post-39561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-news-politics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93342,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions\/93342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}