Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan and Sam Sifton | The New York Times
The Well desk answers health questions and demystifies trends. It has taken readers on an interactive tour of the wild world inside your gut, provided memorable accounts of medical gaslighting, taken a deep dive on the often-misused sleep supplement melatonin and issued a happiness challenge that got millions of people talking about improving their relationships.
Over the last few years, the Well team has grown in size, and its coverage of health and wellness has become more important to our readers. Under the leadership of Lori Leibovich, Well offers service journalism at its best — authoritative, relevant, engaging and helpful. It provides guidance on the most personal issues in readers’ lives from reporters who have deep expertise. The appetite for Well’s reporting is voracious.
So we are thrilled to announce that we are further investing in Well to expand its coverage, with a sizable number of reporters, editors and visual journalists joining the desk. By early next year, we expect the Well team to have grown by more than 50 percent.
Two of the reporters are already in place. We’ve just hired Dana Smith to cover longevity, brain health, addiction and aging, and Talya Minsberg to report on fitness. We’re planning to add a reporter to cover health news as well as another to offer guidance on wellness culture, wellness at work, and happiness.
We’ve recently brought on Sarah Collins as an assistant editor. We’ll be looking to hire two additional editors to help steer coverage as the team expands.
We also plan to bring on a video journalist and a visuals editor to keep our design and story forms best in class, building bursts, quizzes, interactives and challenges. They will continue to help the desk further expand its innovative storytelling, on platform and off.
We expect to post additional jobs later this year.
Health is a subject area that matters to everyone. Accuracy and integrity are crucial, and yet wellness reporting is often rife with misinformation, hype, influencers and sponsored posts. Well in contrast brings trust, clarity, context and independence to an uneven landscape.
Woke up to extreme heat or wildfire smoke? Wondering when to get your Covid booster? Keep hearing about Ozempic? Well has explainers for those things and whatever else you’ve been wondering about in matters of your body and brain. The Well newsletter, the company’s largest subscriber-only newsletter, keeps readers informed about the latest health and wellness trends and ideas each week. The desk also covers nutrition, fitness, sleep, mental health, relationships, women’s health, sex, chronic conditions and much more. Well will continue to coordinate and partner with the Health and Science desk, whose impressive coverage of health news and enterprise greatly enhances our overall report.
The number of health and wellness topics that readers are curious about is vast and always growing. We are excited to see Well build on its distinguished coverage of issues our readers care about deeply.
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