Marc Lacey is an American journalist and, since 2022, managing editor of ''

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''.

Early life and education

Lacey was born in

Queens Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ...

and grew up in

Mandeville, Jamaica Mandeville () is the capital and largest town in the Manchester Parish, parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica. In 2005, the town had an estimated population of 50,000, and including the immediate suburbs within a radius of t ...

, and

Upstate New York Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York (state), New York that lies north and northwest of the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York. Upstate includes the middle and upper Hudson Valley, ...

. Lacey graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

Ithaca, New York Ithaca () is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metrop ...

, in 1987, where he majored in biology and society. As a freshman at Cornell, Lacey joined ''

The Cornell Daily Sun ''The Cornell Daily Sun'' is an independent newspaper at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is published twice weekly by Cornell University students and hired employees. Founded in 1880, ''The Sun'' is the oldest continuously independent ...

'', an independent newspaper published primarily by Cornell students, and eventually became editor-in-chief. He was a campus

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during his senior year at Cornell for The New York Times. He received a master's degree in international policy and practice from George Washington University's

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in 2002.

Career

Lacey began as a summer reporting intern for ''

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'' after college, covering local news from the

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, bureau. For two years, he was a reporter at ''

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'' in

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. He was a general assignment and city hall reporter for five years for the ''

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'', then a Washington correspondent covering

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for the ''Los Angeles Times'' for another five years. He has been part of two teams of journalists that have won

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for spot news reporting: first, covering the

1992 Los Angeles riots The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Los Angeles, South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after ...

, then the

1994 Northridge earthquake The 1994 Northridge earthquake affected Greater Los Angeles, California, on January 17, 1994, at 04:30:55 PST. The epicenter of the moment 6.7 () blind thrust earthquake was beneath the San Fernando Valley. Lasting approximately 8 seconds ...

Lacey then joined ''

'' in 1999 as a correspondent. He first covered the

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and

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, then reported from

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, as Nairobi bureau chief, and

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, as bureau chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. He rose through the ranks at The Times, holding roles including: Deputy Foreign Editor, Weekend Editor, Deputy National Editor, Associate Managing Editor, National Editor, Assistant Managing Editor and in turn, Managing Editor. He shares the role, the second highest at the newspaper, with Carolyn Ryan. Lacey co-moderated the fourth Democratic presidential primary debate on October 15, 2019, with

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and

Erin Burnett Erin Isabelle Burnett (born July 2, 1976) is an American news anchor, currently the anchor of ''Erin Burnett OutFront'' on CNN. She previously worked for CNBC as co-anchor of ''Squawk on the Street'' and the host of ''Street Signs (TV series), S ...

. As national editor, then as assistant managing editor, Lacey served on ''The New York Times'' 2020 Committee, which sought to modernize the newspaper's digital strategy and oversaw the launch of the Live platform, which then-executive editor Dean Baquet and his then-deputy, Joe Kahn, called "the engaging and demanding platform for dynamic coverage of the biggest news stories."

References

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