The New York Times: New research editors at magazine

Jane Ackermann (Photo credit: Earl Wilson)

The Sunday Magazine is happy to announce that three staff research editors have joined the Magazine’s research department.

Jane Ackermann has served as a researcher and fact checker for a range of media, including magazines, books, podcasts and television. Recently, she has worked with the Sunday Magazine, Times Audio, Serial, Ken Burns’s Florentine Films and “This American Life.” She has also worked as an actress, appearing in film and television, and on stage in the Off-Broadway production of “Camp Siegfried.” She is a graduate of Columbia University.

Kyla Jones

Kyla Jones has been working for the Sunday Magazine for three years and was part of the team behind Sarah A. Topol’s five-part story “The Deserter.” She was previously a senior researcher at GQ. In addition to her work in journalism, Kyla spent more than 10 years working for Philadelphia public schools, including as a high school English teacher. She has a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a master’s degree in literacy studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rudy Lee (Photo credit: Sam Waxman)

Rudy Lee began working for The Times nine years ago as a research editor for T magazine. In 2018, he started fact-checking for the Sunday Magazine, where he was part of teams behind Carina del Valle Schorske’s “Bodies on the Line,” which won the 2022 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism, and Katie Engelhart’s “The Dementia Paradox,” which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He was also a researcher on the Emmy-nominated documentary “The New York Times Presents: Controlling Britney Spears.”

Please join me in welcoming them!