New Hires in Video

We are thrilled to welcome Maggie Beidelman to the Video desk as a senior producer based in Los Angeles and Edward Vega as a video journalist in New York.

Maggie will help broaden our coverage of California and help oversee daily news during evening hours on the East Coast. She will also manage field deployments in the region and guide short-form enterprise videos. Maggie is an experienced team leader who will also collaborate with the Reporter Video team and more.

She comes from The San Francisco Chronicle, where, as the deputy director of visuals focused on video, she oversaw video strategy and production, including the launch of a new video initiative between The Chronicle and Hearst TV. Previously, she worked as a senior director of video for The Los Angeles Times, where she produced and oversaw multiplatform editorial video with a focus on YouTube strategy and climate and environment video. Maggie was part of the team that launched AJ+, where she produced hundreds of video explainers, studio shows and field pieces and directed the award-winning docuseries " Untold America ."

Born and raised in Southern California, Maggie graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism.

Ed has covered culture in digital video for nearly a decade. He'll bring that knowledge to Reporter Video, collaborating with colleagues reviewing and reporting on topics ranging from film to music to lifestyle.

Before joining The Times, Ed was a senior video producer at Vox, where he produced high-quality explainer videos covering pop culture, science and cinema. His videos have amassed over 50 million collective views to date. Prior to Vox, Ed was a senior producer at Cheddar and Futurism, producing science and technology explainer videos and helping with the the launch of a few narrative development projects.

Born and raised in Queens, Ed graduated from Queens College.

Congratulations!

- Solana Pyne, Sameen Amin and Mona Lalwani