We are excited to announce, on behalf of our audience and video departments, that two of our contract employees are joining as full-time staff. Adrienne Shih, editor on the audience team, and Adam Westbrook, producer and editor on the video team, both do incredible work, and we’re lucky to have them continue with us in Times Opinion.
Adrienne Shih joined the Opinion audience team in November to help run our Instagram account, manage the home page and work on live programming for Twitter and Instagram. She quickly proved herself to be a team player, taking on editing newsletters and other parts of our off-platform efforts. She also hosted a few Instagram Lives; once, for the “Future of Food” video series, she met a bug chef and ate a variety of bugs on camera. Going forward, Adrienne will continue overseeing Opinion’s live programming, co-edit Opinion Today’s Saturday send, continue home page efforts, as well as advise the department on digital best practices.
Before joining The Times, Adrienne was the audience engagement editor for national politics at The Los Angeles Times. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Adam Westbrook has been a freelance video producer and editor since 2009 and doing work with Times Opinion since 2019. Alongside Adam Ellick he co-wrote and co-directed Operation InfeKtion, the Emmy-nominated Opinion Video series about Russian disinformation. He also produced the video series Jaron Lanier Fixes the Internet and most recently he produced the viral videos featuring satirical journalist Jonathan Pie.
He has previously worked as a radio journalist and a lecturer. In 2014 he started a popular YouTube channel creating video essays about history and creativity.
Congratulations, Adrienne and Adam.
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