I’m delighted to announce a stellar lineup of deputy editors — Gabriel Dance, David Enrich and Virginia Hughes — who will help lead the Investigations desk.
Gabriel Dance is taking on a new role, leading our visual journalism across the department and developing new approaches to investigative storytelling. We’re pleased to say that two graphics reporters will be reporting to Gabe, who will also coordinate and collaborate with Video and other departments.
Bold and creative, Gabe is a multi-hyphenate talent with a sharp eye for a story, a keen sense of the untold angle and a drive to tell it in a fresh way. He started his career at The Times in 2006, when he joined as part of our digital transformation. From there, he helped launch “The Daily,” the iPad-only news site, and worked at The Guardian and The Marshall Project before we lured him back to The Times in 2016 to join the Investigations department.
He has contributed to some of our most ambitious journalism, including the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of President Trump’s taxes. He has also reported on Big Tech’s predatory practices, child sexual abuse material and the cost of Bitcoin mining. His reporting has won a Polk, two Loeb awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award.
Along with colleagues, Gabe started our tips line and has led its evolution as an invaluable source of scoops and revelatory stories.
“Gabe thrives in the space where journalism and technology intersect, which has placed him in a pivotal role on countless projects as a reporter, editor and multimedia master,” said Dean Murphy. “He sees around corners, asks the right questions and seeks — and finds — solutions to seemingly insurmountable obstacles.”
David Enrich is moving just around the corner from Business after an exceptionally impressive run as the department’s investigations editor. He will be leading a group of reporters while also continuing to work on his own reporting projects.
David is a reporter’s editor, a partner who will help strategize about sources, puzzle out framing and field pushback from critics. He aims high and cuts through noise, editing with a relentless focus on clear and taut prose. Some of the work edited by David has anticipated the dangers of our increasingly crowded airspace, revealed the secret fees and opaque practices of pharmacy benefit managers and exposed the very profit-seeking behavior of nonprofit hospitals (one of many series that he co-edited with Ginny Hughes).
“His enthusiasm and excitement about stories is infectious, and he knows how important it is to have fun in the process,” said Jessica Silver-Greenberg. “He understands the healing properties of whiskey and the occasional fancy lunch.”
After covering Washington for local newspapers, David spent a dozen years as a reporter and editor at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, where he was part of teams that were Pulitzer finalists twice and won Polk and Loeb awards. He joined The Times in 2017 as finance editor before becoming the Business desk’s investigations editor in 2020.
David is also a New York Times bestselling author of four books, including “Murder the Truth,” which comes out this month.
Virginia Hughes joins us from the Health and Science desk, where she built the department’s first investigations team and shepherded success after success. She will be leading a group of reporters in Investigations.
Ginny is a rare editor who is as tough-minded as she is curious. She champions the work of her reporters while pushing them to go even deeper. And she excels at seeing the big picture while also diving into the little details. “If there is a report or study cited in one of my stories, you can bet Ginny is reading the source document. She’s often finding a great nugget to add from it, too,” said Sarah Kliff.
Ginny started her career as a freelance writer covering genetics and brain science. In 2015, she started the science desk at BuzzFeed News and later became deputy editor in chief. When Covid hit, Ginny joined The Times as a science editor, coordinating coverage of the vaccine race across many desks.
She has edited investigative series that dove into nursing home ratings, overused medical procedures and patients trapped in psychiatric hospitals. Like David, she also loves to write. Last year, she published a blockbuster story about a woman trying to change her grim genetic destiny, and another about farmers fighting back against counterfeit coffee beans.
“Ginny’s a natural leader and a rigorous, fearless, fair-minded editor,” said Celia Dugger. “She also happens to be a lot of fun and makes amazingly artful cupcakes and cookies.”
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