Kathleen Kingsbury

Kathleen Kingsbury is the Opinion Editor of The New York Times, appointed in January 2021 after serving as acting editor since June 2020. She joined The Times in 2017 as Deputy Editorial Page Editor. Previously, she held multiple roles at The Boston Globe including Managing Editor for digital, Deputy Managing Editor, and Deputy Editorial Page Editor, where she edited the Ideas section and served on the editorial board starting in 2013. Kingsbury began her career at Time magazine as a New York-based staff writer and Hong Kong-based Asia correspondent, with additional contributions to Reuters, The Daily Beast, BusinessWeek, and Fortune. She holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and a graduate degree from Columbia Journalism School, where she received a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Kingsbury won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for her 'Service Not Included' series exposing restaurant worker exploitation, which also earned the Walker Stone Award and Burl Osborne Award. She edited The Boston Globe's 2016 Pulitzer-winning commentary on race/education and was a 2018 Pulitzer finalist for work on domestic violence/gun ownership.