The New York Times Company announced today that it will expand the
opinion offerings of the International New York Times (INYT), as the
rebranded International Herald Tribune will be called when it debuts on October
15. The expansion will include more international opinion
contributors, new editorial staff and an additional, third page in the
INYT’s weekend edition.
The INYT Opinion Pages (INYT.com/Opinion)
will be edited from Hong Kong, Paris, London and New York and will be
tailored for global audiences.
The International New York Times has named two part-time editorial board
writers: Mira Kamdar, based in Paris, and Masaru Tamamoto, based
in Yokohama, Japan. Ms. Kamdar is a faculty member of the École de
Journalisme at Sciences Po and the author of “Planet India: The
Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy.” Mr. Tamamoto has been a senior
fellow at the World Policy Institute, a research associate at Cambridge
University and a MacArthur Foundation fellow in international peace and
security at Princeton University.
The INYT has also assembled a roster of more than two dozen contributing
opinion writers who will write monthly columns reflecting perspectives,
debates and ideas from around the world. They include the following:
• Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish columnist and the author of “Islam
Without Extremes.”
• Matthew d'Ancona, a political columnist for The Sunday
Telegraph, The Evening Standard and the British edition of GQ, and a
former editor of The Spectator, the conservative political magazine.
• Alaa Al Aswany, an Egyptian writer and the author of the
best-selling novel “The Yacoubian Building” and “On the State of Egypt:
What Made the Revolution Inevitable.”
• Tahmima Anam, a Bangladeshi writer, columnist and
anthropologist and the author of the novel “A Golden Age.”
• Julia Baird, an Australian journalist and broadcaster.
• Vanessa Barbara, a Brazilian novelist, editor of the
literary Web site A Hortaliça, and columnist for the newspaper Folha de
São Paulo.
• Jochen Bittner, a German journalist and the political editor of
the weekly newspaper Die Zeit.
• Pamela Druckerman, an American journalist in Paris and the
author of the best seller “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother
Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.”
• Ali Jarbawi, a political scientist at Birzeit University and a
former minister of planning, and minister of higher education, for the
Palestinian National Authority.
• Sylvie Kauffmann, a French journalist and the editorial
director and former editor in chief of Le Monde.
• Norihiro Kato, a Japanese literary scholar and a professor at
Waseda University.
• Young-ha Kim, a Korean novelist and the author of “I Have the
Right to Destroy Myself,” “Your Republic Is Calling You,” and “Black
Flower.”
• Nikos Konstandaras, the managing editor and a columnist at the
Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini.
• Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian, the director of the
literary magazine Letras Libres and the author of “Redeemers: Ideas and
Power in Latin America.”
• Adewale Maja-Pearce, a Nigerian writer and the author of
“Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Other Essays.”
• Kenan Malik, a British author, broadcaster and science
journalist.
• Pratap Bhanu Mehta, an Indian political theorist and the
president of the Center for Policy Research, a think tank.
• T. O. Molefe, a South African essayist who is writing a
book on post-apartheid race relations.
• Murong Xuecun, a Chinese novelist and blogger and the author of
“Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu.”
• Murithi Mutiga, a Kenyan journalist and editor at the
Nation Media Group, in Nairobi.
• Vali R. Nasr, an Iranian-American political scientist and
the dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
at Johns Hopkins University.
• Shmuel Rosner, an Israeli columnist and former Haaretz
correspondent.
• Nilanjana S. Roy, an Indian journalist and critic and the
author of the novel “The Wildings.”
• Beppe Severgnini, an Italian columnist at the daily newspaper
Corriere della Serra.
• Bina Shah, a Pakistani columnist and the author of several
novels and story collections.
• Slawomir Sierakowski, a Polish journalist and political
activist.
• Maxim Trudolyubov, a Russian journalist and the opinion page
editor of the business newspaper Vedomosti.
• Clemens Wergin, a German journalist and the foreign editor of
the newspaper group Die Welt.
• Yu Hua, a Chinese writer and the author of “To Live” and “China
in Ten Words.”
“The quality and geographic range of voices in the International New
York Times Opinion Pages will help ensure that our pages reflect those
issues that are the most relevant and compelling to our global readers,”
said Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of The New York Times. “Our
international readers have asked us for more viewpoints from around the
globe, and we are delighted to fulfill that request.”
About The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT), a leading global multimedia news
and information company with 2012 revenues of $2.0 billion, includes The
New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe,
NYTimes.com, BostonGlobe.com, Boston.com and related properties. The
Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and
distributing high-quality news and information.
This press release can be downloaded from www.nytco.com
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