Sam Sifton joins The New York Times's masthead

Founding editor of NYT Cooking Sam Sifton will join The New York Times’s masthead as associate managing editor, overseeing cultural and lifestyles coverage. From the Times’s Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn:

“Sam is the perfect leader to take on this assignment. He has a deep understanding of features coverage and how to make it urgent and vital to our readers. Sam is the kind of editor who’s always boiling over with ideas but he’s also a doer, and his Food empire — recipes, newsletters, YouTube videos, restaurant reviews, news — is the most exciting version of what a modern features desk can look like.”

Read the full announcement here, and join us in congratulating Sam!