Woodland Park, N.J.-- Martin (Marty) Gottlieb has been named editor of The Record. Since 2008, he has been the global editions editor of The New York Times, overseeing the editorial operations of the Paris- and Hong Kong-based International Herald Tribune. During his tenure, he helped guide the redesign of the paper, the merger of its website with nytimes.com and several important investigative projects, including a hunt for Europe’s most notorious war crimes suspect, which prosecutors credit with helping to finally lead to his apprehension this year.

 

Prior to this, Gottlieb was an associate managing editor, in charge of The Times’ newsroom on the weekends and the Sunday and Monday news reports. He started at The Times in 1983 as a reporter on the metro staff.

 

Gottlieb was editor of the Village Voice in the mid-1980s and worked at the Daily News from 1974 to 1982 in a variety of reporting and editing roles, returning there as managing editor in 1993.

 

Gottlieb worked at The Record from 1971 to 1973.

 

Gottlieb has taught journalism at Princeton, Columbia and New York University, among other institutions.  He holds a bachelor’s degree from Queens College and a master’s from the Columbia Journalism School. Among many awards and recognitions, he won the George Polk Award for an investigative series on the Columbia/HCA Hospital Corp. by a team of Times reporters he headed, and has received numerous Pulitzer Prize nominations.