Kathleen Kingsbury is an American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and editor. She is ''The New York Times's'' Opinion Editor.

Biography

Kathleen Kingsbury grew up in Portland, Oregon, and did her undergraduate work at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

. She was awarded a graduate degree from the

Columbia Journalism School The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights, Manhattan, Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is ...

, where she had been the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Kingsbury worked for ''

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'' magazine as New York-based staff writer and as a Hong Kong-based correspondent. In 2013 Kingsbury joined the editorial board of ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

''. She also served as managing editor and frequent contributor to the Globe's Sunday supplement section, ''Ideas''. Kingsbury joined ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'' in August 2017 as a deputy editorial page editor. On June 7, 2020, she was named "as acting Editorial Page Editor through the November election" at ''

'', replacing James Bennet. In January 2021, she was named Opinion Editor by Publisher A.G. Sulzberger. She has also contributed to ''

'', ''

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'', ''

The Daily Beast ''The Daily Beast'' is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. It was founded in 2008. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...

'', ''BusinessWeek'', and ''Fortune''. In 2015, Kingsbury won a

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for a series of articles exposing the unfair working conditions facing restaurant workers, including the negative financial effects of the American tipping system, the prevalence of wage theft, and the real human cost of cheap menu items. In February 2021, Kingsbury refused to run a column by

Bret Stephens Bret Louis Stephens (born November 21, 1973) is an American conservative journalist, editor, and columnist. He began working as an opinion columnist for ''The New York Times'' in April 2017 and as a senior contributor to NBC News in June 2017. ...

in which he criticized the ''Times's'' dismissal of Donald G. McNeil Jr. Stephens' comments were later published by the ''

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''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kingsbury, Kathleen Living people American women journalists American women editors Year of birth missing (living people) Georgetown University alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni The New York Times editorial board 21st-century American women