Kathleen Kingsbury

Kathleen Kingsbury
Nationality	American
Education	Georgetown University (BS) Columbia University (MS)
Occupation(s)	Journalist and editor
Employer	The New York Times
Known for	Opinion and editorial writing
Title	Opinion editor, The New York Times
Honours	Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing, 2015

Kathleen Kingsbury is an American journalist and editor.[1] She is The New York Times's Opinion Editor.[2]

Biography

Kathleen Kingsbury grew up in Portland, Oregon, and did her undergraduate work at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She was awarded a graduate degree from the Columbia Journalism School, where she had been the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.

Kingsbury worked for Time magazine as New York-based staff writer and as a Hong Kong-based correspondent.[3]

In 2013, Kingsbury joined the editorial board of The Boston Globe, later becoming deputy managing editor and deputy editorial page editor.[4][5] Kingsbury joined The New York Times in August 2017 as a deputy editorial page editor.[4][6] On June 7, 2020, she was named "as acting Editorial Page Editor through the November election"[7] at The New York Times, replacing James Bennet.[8] In January 2021, she was named Opinion Editor by Publisher A.G. Sulzberger.[2] She has also contributed to Time, Reuters, The Daily Beast, BusinessWeek, and Fortune.[4][5][9]

Kingsbury's "Service Not Included" series about labor conditions in Boston restaurants earned her the Walker Stone Award for Editorial Writing from the Scripps Howard Foundation in 2014, as well as the Burl Osborne Award for Editorial Leadership from the American Society of News Editors in 2015.[10][11]

In 2015, Kingsbury won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing 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.[1][12][13] In 2018, she was a finalist in the same category for her work on an editorial series about domestic violence and gun ownership.[14]

In February 2021, Kingsbury refused to run a column by Bret Stephens in which he criticized the Times's dismissal of Donald G. McNeil Jr.[15] Stephens' comments were later published by the New York Post.[16]

Controversies

Kingsbury has been the source of controversy both publicly and within the New York Times staff since taking over as opinion editor. Kingsbury wrote one of the New York Times opinion articles that dismissed transgender youth and called their gender identity a phase.[17] There have also been other articles published in the opinion section, that she edits, that are alleged to be dismissive of the issues of trans youth.[18]

References

1. Stelter, Brian. "2015 Pulitzer Prize winners named". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
2. "Kathleen Kingsbury Named Opinion Editor". The New York Times Company. 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
3. [Fortune.https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/kathleen-kingsbury | Fortune "The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes, Journalism: Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe."] accessed January 20.
4. "New York Times Adds Kathleen Kingsbury as Deputy Editorial Page Editor". Adweek. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
5. "Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe - The Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
6. Calderone, Michael (2017-08-03). "New York Times Group Erupts Over Charge Editorial Was Softened At Governor's Behest". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
7. "James Bennet Resigns as Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times; Katie Kingsbury Named Acting Editorial Page Editor". The New York Times Company. 2020-06-07. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
8. "New York Times Editorial Page Editor Resigns Amid Uproar, Staff Backlash". The Hollywood Reporter. 7 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
9. "Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe - The Pulitzer Prizes". pulitzer.lamptest.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
10. "Boom days in Shanghai". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved September 16, 2024. In addition to the Pulitzer, Kingsbury's reporting on labor conditions in Boston restaurants earned her the 2014 Walker Stone Award for editorial writing.
11. "ASNE AWARDS 2015". News Leaders Association. Retrieved September 16, 2024. Katie Kingsbury of The Boston Globe will receive $2,500 for winning the Burl Osborne Award for Editorial Leadership, which recognizes editorial writing that is excellent journalism and makes a difference in a community.
12. "Katie Kingsbury Wins Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing". Georgetown Alumni Online. 2015-05-20. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
13. "Pulitzer Prize winner: Consumers can help restaurant workers get fair pay". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
14. "Finalist: Kathleen Kingsbury, Jessia Ma, Matteen Mokalla and Stuart Thompson of The New York Times". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2018. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
15. "How the world's most famous newspaper became a house of fear" (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-20.
16. Bryant, Miranda (2020-02-12). "Spiked New York Times column on reporter's exit published by New York Post". The Guardian.
17. Kingsbury, Kathleen (2024-02-02). "The Complexities of Transgender Care for Kids". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
18. Yang, Mary (2023-02-15). "'New York Times' stories on trans youth slammed by writers — including some of its own". NPR. Archived from the original on 2023-03-11. Retrieved 2024-10-27.