
Wendell Jamieson
Writer, Editor, Storyteller, Communicator
I've worked for four New York City newspapers. From 2013 until 2018 I was Metro editor of The New York Times. I sought to capture all the drama, tragedy and comedy of living in this, what I believe is the greatest city in the world. But it is a place that is ever changing. Metro was known for major prize-winning investigations during my tenure.
I've also written books and numerous high-charting stories in The Times, from the miraculous and uplifting tale of a boy who was terribly injured in the early 1970s but went on to have a remarkable life, to an essay about how "It's a Wonderful Life" is actually a horror movie, to a comic feature about travelling abroad with my children. Many of my stories captured disappearing facets of working class Brooklyn as the borough gentrified in the last two decades.
"Paulina said what was on everyone's mind. 'Do they have unscented pork?'"
Wendell Jamieson
