The New York Times: International’s new security editor

Amy Fiscus (Photo credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)

We are thrilled to announce that Amy Fiscus is returning to The Times as our new international security editor, based in London. In this new role, Amy will oversee a team of senior correspondents who focus on global intelligence, defense and diplomacy, working closely with bureau chiefs and regional editors to cover storylines that cross borders.

Amy has been the deputy national editor at The Washington Post since October 2023, helping oversee the team that reports on the federal government, politics, national news, health, science and more, including coverage of the 2024 election and the presidential transition.

This will be her second stint at The Times. She first joined in 2017 as the national security editor in the Washington bureau and ran many of the biggest and most sensitive stories of the Trump and early Biden administrations. She oversaw coverage of the Mueller investigation and edited work that was part of The Times’s Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018. She also helped run coverage on Trump’s impeachments, Russia, the Middle East, the Jan. 6 attacks and more. She then served for more than two years as the deputy editor of The Morning, The Times’s flagship daily newsletter. Amy widened its reach: She created weekend editions that expanded the newsletter to seven days a week and broadened its roster of writers to include many more expert voices from around the newsroom.

“It’s sensational news that Amy is coming back to The Times,” said Elisabeth Bumiller, the Washington bureau chief during the first Trump administration. “She was relentless, fearless and creative in driving some of our most important, high-wire stories during President Trump’s first four years in office. Through it all she remained one of our finest editors and a strong advocate for reporters who were devoted to her.”

Amy has also been an editor for the Los Angeles Times’s Washington bureau, The Associated Press and newspapers in Missouri, Connecticut and North Carolina. She is from Iowa and graduated from the University of Missouri.

She starts her role today, and will move to London in late spring. Please join us in congratulating her.