The New York Times announces updates on video team in London

Monika Cvorak

We are excited to welcome Monika Cvorak and Axel Boada to our London office.

Monika has joined us as a senior video journalist in London. She will collaborate with desks across the newsroom to help produce breaking and developing news in video for both our site and off-platform.

Monika comes to The Times after seven years at The Guardian, where she led the team responsible for breaking news video, commissioning and overseeing everything from live feed coverage and quick-turnaround news packages to reporter-led video and visual explainers. She also led the video verification desk, teaching producers OSINT-based verification techniques and supervising verification for quality control.

Prior to The Guardian, Monika worked as a journalist in Slovenia at Delo, the country’s largest broadsheet daily, covering local news, events and social affairs. She studied journalism at the University of Ljubljana, before earning her international journalism master’s at City, University of London.

Axel Boada

Axel, who has proven himself to be an invaluable member of our weekend news video operation, will be joining the London office as a video journalist. We are delighted to draw on his many talents as he  helps the Video desk stay on top of the news of the day, working closely with the rest of The Times’s news operation based in Europe. He will produce, source and edit breaking and developing news stories for on and off platform.

Axel joined The Times in 2021, producing and editing videos on pivotal national and global news events including the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, a deadly plane crash in South Korea and the experiences of migrants in New York City, at the U.S.-Mexico border and across Latin America. He also edited and helped produce videos on medical workers’ running field hospitals and canvassers’ reaching rural voters in the wake of Hurricane Helene, and has contributed to the rolling coverage of the crisis in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Born in Ecuador, Axel grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Northwestern University with a journalism degree and a political science minor.

Monika started on May 12 and Axel will head to London this summer.

Congratulations!