The New York Times announces a promotion in Graphics

Anjali Singhvi (Photo credit: Earl Wilson)

We are thrilled to share that we have promoted Anjali Singhvi to assistant editor in Graphics, with a focus on visual and spatial investigations.

Anjali joined the department in 2016 and has spent the last decade building expertise in open-source and spatial investigations. An architect by training, she specializes in deeply reported reconstructions of news events that use video and audio evidence, witness accounts and spatial analysis.

Her unique skillsets have anchored many award-winning stories. In 2018, for an investigation into a chemical weapons attack in Syria, she pieced together evidence from hundreds of photos and videos to create a 3-D model of the scene that challenged accounts from the Assad regime. In 2020, she meticulously reconstructed the killing of Breonna Taylor, tracing the paths of every bullet fired by the police. In 2022, Anjali was a lead reporter on a piece that explained why deadly smoke from a fire spread so quickly up a Bronx high-rise. 

Her reporting was crucial in a 3-D reconstruction of what was destroyed in the Tulsa massacre, and in an investigation into a deadly Maui fire, which won a Peabody. She most recently worked with colleagues to uncover how a mass grave was used in Syria and to take readers inside Sednaya, that country’s most fearsome prison. 

In the last year, Anjali has also proven herself a capable editor, helping to lead the department’s coverage of several breaking news events. She edited a piece that used visual and audio evidence to reconstruct the Air India plane crash. This spring, she led an exclusive spatial investigation showing the limited view of firefighters in the collision between a plane and a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport. And this summer, collaborating with colleagues in Metro and International, she led a team to land two scoops on the structural failures at a Midtown building.

In her new role, she will lead and edit breaking news, enterprise and investigative stories. She will work with Haeyoun to identify strong opportunities for investigative journalism, particularly those that use innovative reporting techniques.

Before coming to The Times, Anjali received a Master of Science in urban planning from Columbia University and worked at Columbia’s Center for Spatial Research. A lifelong student of languages, she is currently studying Arabic. 

Please congratulate her on a well-deserved promotion.