Jia Lynn Yang

Jia Lynn Yang is national editor at The New York Times. Before joining The Times in 2017, she was deputy national security editor at The Washington Post, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Trump and Russia. Before becoming an editor, Jia Lynn wrote about business and economics at the Post and at Fortune magazine for over a decade. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Stephanie Gorton

Stephanie Gorton wrote "The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America" (2024), which won the ASJA Award for Biography/History, was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for biography, and was longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. Her first book was "Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America" (2020), a finalist for the Sperber Prize for journalism biography.

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