The New York Times: Lauren Jackson joins The Morning team

Lauren Jackson

We’re excited to announce that Lauren Jackson, an audience editor in Audio, will be joining The Morning as a writer based in London.

Lauren has already shown that she understands the power of newsletters: She redesigned The Daily newsletter so that it covered one big idea each week, making it a distinct and valuable part of the full report of “The Daily.” As the newsletter’s writer, she reported on subjects as diverse as the future of food, platform companies and the metaverse, superpower conflict and American decline.

As part of the Audio team, she produced narrative projects, photo essays and video pilots for shows including “The Trojan Horse Affair,” “Nice White Parents” and “Day X,” and she helped produce episodes of “The Daily” from the field.

“Lauren is incredibly versatile,” said Julia Simon, the director of audience and operations for Audio. “She can tackle strategic problems, write beautifully, dream up big ideas and execute on them. I’m thrilled more people will get her words in their inboxes.”

Lauren will become the second Morning staff member in London, joining Claire Moses — who has proven so valuable to our operation that we realized she needed a colleague now that The Morning goes out seven days a week rather than five. Lauren will work closely with Claire on the crucial duties of finishing and sending the newsletter each morning. She’ll also take on various features assignments, including contributing to the newsletter’s Arts & Ideas section and its weekend editions.

Lauren will be joining a talented team that also includes Tom Wright-Piersanti, Ian Prasad Philbrick, German Lopez and Ashley Wu. Delivered every day, The Morning has one of the largest audiences of any Times platform, with almost six million daily readers.

Before joining The Times, Lauren reported on religion and other issues at CNN, where she won three awards from the Religion News Association. Before that, she researched media innovation at The Reuters Institute, worked on policy at the United Nations and studied the economic impact of beekeeping in Rwanda. She grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Virginia and Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Lauren will join the team next month.