A New South Asia Bureau Chief

Jeremy Peters has covered power in politics, media and academia for more than a decade from perches in D.C. and New York. His stories cast light on President Trump's rise to power and domination of the Republican Party, the inner workings of conservative media, and conflicts over free speech. Now he is taking his political acumen to India, where he will become The Times' new South Asia bureau chief in New Delhi.

India, the world's most populous country, has been transformed by the Hindu-first rule of Prime Minister Modi. And the country now faces a rising protest movement at home and strained relations with the Trump administration and China abroad. Jeremy will lead our talented team on the ground as we expand our coverage of India, and stories across all of South Asia.

Jeremy began writing for The Times when he was a senior at the University of Michigan. After a brief sojourn as a reporter for The Virgin Islands Daily News, he returned to The Times on the Business desk covering the auto industry before a stint on Continuous News and two years in Albany for Metro. He joined Politics for the 2012 presidential campaign and then the Washington bureau, where his beat was Capitol Hill, with a focus on the widening rift in the Republican Party. He hit the campaign trail again in 2016, where he had a front row seat to Donald Trump's takeover of the G.O.P.

Jeremy then took on the conservative movement beat afterward, writing extensively about how Mr. Trump charmed the religious right and empowered them during his first term. That reporting led to a book, "Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted." His experience covering the religious right led to exclusive reporting on emerging culture war fights, including its early efforts to use the issue of children and gender identity in political campaigns. And he has tracked the issue closely from the other side as the National desk's reporter on free speech since 2024. His stories have looked at the backlash to progressive activism from voters and how that has affected other social movements, including the pro-Palestinian campus protests.

He was part of the team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2009 for coverage of the sex scandal that resulted in Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation. And he and Times colleagues won the 2024 Mirror Award for best in-depth reporting from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University for their work on Fox News's landmark $787.5 million defamation settlement.

Jeremy's travel dispatches for The Times, from Corsica to the Caribbean , at spas and ski resorts , have inspired envy. And he has also been a familiar face on television for political junkies, working as a commentator at MSNBC for more than a decade and as one of the co-stars of the Showtime documentary "The Fourth Estate," which followed him and other Times colleagues during Mr. Trump's first term.

Please join us in congratulating him on a new and exciting chapter in his career.

- Philip Pan, Douglas Schorzman and Neil Western