Talk to the Newsroom: Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally
Assistant Managine Editor Michele McNally, who oversees photography for The New York Times, is answering questions from readers June 22-26. Questions may be e-mailed toaskthetimes@nytimes.com.
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Ms. McNally joined The Times as director of photography in June 2004 and was promoted to assistant managing editor in July 2005.
Before joining The Times, Ms. McNally was picture editor of Fortune Magazine from November 1986 until May 2004. Previously, she was picture editor of Time Life's Magazine Development Group. She began her career as a sales representative for Sygma Photo News in 1977.
Ms. McNally has judged numerous photography contests, including Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, White House News Photographers, American Photography and Best of Photojournalism, Getty Grants. She was chairman of the World Presss Photo jury in 2007. She was on the Pulitzer photo jury in 2008 and 2009. She has participated in many workshops, including The Flying Short Course in Photojournalism, the World Press Master Class, the Women's Conference in Photojournalism and the Eddie Adams Workshop. She has taught classes at various universities and has been a visiting professor at Syracuse University and The International Center of Photography.
She has been an editor on several books, including the bestseller "Day in the Life" series, and has curated a permanent gallery for Time-Life and The New York Times.
As picture editor of Fortune and The New York Times, Ms. McNally earned awards from American Photography, Pictures of the Year, World Press, Overseas Press Club, Communication Arts, Page Design and the Society of Publication Design. She has also won picture editing awards at Pictures of the Year and Best of Photojournalism. She was named the recipient of the Jim Gordon Award and Picture Editor of the Year by the Lucie Foundation's International Photography Awards. This year Damon Winter of The Times won the Pulitzer prize for feature photography. The award for Best Use of Photography in a newspaper went to The New York Times from both Pictures of the Year- POYi and the Best of Photojournalism.
Other Times staff members have answered questions in this column, including Executive Editor Bill Keller, Managing Editor Jill Abramson, Managing Editor John Geddes, Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman, Assistant Managing Editor Richard L. Berke, Assistant Managing Editor Glenn Kramon, Associate Managing Editor Charles Strum, Business Editor Larry Ingrassia, Obituaries Editor Bill McDonald, Metropolitan Editor Joe Sexton, Living Editor Trish Hall, Investigations Editor Matthew Purdy, Foreign Editor Susan Chira, National Editor Suzanne Daley, Sports Editor Tom Jolly and Culture Editor Sam Sifton. Their responses and those of other Times staff members are on the Talk to the Newsroom page.
These discussions will continue in future weeks with other Times editors and reporters.
