Jim Yardley Promoted to Assistant Managing Editor

Anyone who's worked with Jim Yardley knows the impact he's had on our biggest reporting targets. During his many years overseas, and more recently as a rising member of our newsroom leadership team, Jim has produced, championed, coached and edited great enterprise, and formed strong partnerships with teams around the newsroom who bring it to life.

We're excited to announce that we're promoting Jim to the masthead as assistant managing editor, overseeing enterprise and investigations.

Just some of the ambitious and impactful coverage Jim has recently been involved in: The Middle East crisis. Brain trauma in military veterans. America's groundwater crisis. The impact of Covid on homicide rates. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

In his expanded role, Jim will continue to work with many of you in shaping stories and ensuring we feature our best enterprise reporting, in multiple forms, throughout the week. He is recruiting a team of top editors to work with him and will host the daily enterprise meeting. He'll also become a partner on a range of newsroom leadership initiatives.

"Jim is a wonderful journalist and a great colleague. His experience as a reporter and editor is peerless and he applies equal attention to reporting detail and storytelling," said Matt Purdy. "He has been great to work with in various incarnations over many years and he will be a masterful impresario of enterprise."

Since joining the team in New York two years ago, Jim has become an integral part of our editing operation, working with nearly every department to drive enterprise and investigations, ensure competitiveness on our biggest storylines and foster collaboration across the newsroom.

He's also been a strong advocate for ambitious visual enterprise and investigations, has helped develop our Ideas journalism and support our Great Reads. Jim's thoughtful edits and keen eye for how to lift a story make him a beloved coach to reporters and a valued partner to editors.

Jim joined The Times in 1997 and was a reporter on the Metro and National desks before becoming an international correspondent. He spent 13 years as a correspondent in Rome, New Delhi and China, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on abuses in China's legal system. Then he became Europe editor in 2016 and played a vital role in growing our global ambitions and overseeing coverage of major storylines including Brexit, Covid and the early days of the war in Ukraine. He also oversaw the expansion of our London newsroom into our second-largest news operation.

Please join us in congratulating Jim.