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.