'NYT' Restaurant Critic Sifton Named National Editor
Had previously been culture editor
The New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton will become the newspaper’s national editor, he announced today from his Twitter account.
The announcement comes just days after WWD broke the news that Sifton was a leading candidate for the position, despite his lack of experience as a national reporter or editor. But this won’t be the first unexpected appointment from new executive editor Jill Abramson, who recently surprised the media world by naming David Leonhardt as the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief.
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