Tyler Pager’s byline first appeared in The New York Times on March 27, 2018. He was 22 at the time, and studying at Oxford after graduating from Northwestern University. He’d been selected by Nick Kristof for Nick’s “win a trip” competition that year, which in this case meant traveling across the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world and one in the midst of a violent civil conflict.
“We were in remote areas, on rumors of roads, traveling all day and settling into dubious ‘hotels’ at night — and Tyler was magnificent,” Nick recalls. “He wrote evocative essays and was fearless and indefatigable; it was clear he was headed for great things in journalism.”
He was. Tyler went on to become a James Reston Fellow on the Metro desk of The Times before leaving, first for Bloomberg, then Politico and most recently for The Washington Post.
We are thrilled to announce that Tyler is now coming home to The Times. He is joining the Washington bureau as a member of our powerhouse White House team, part of our effort to build on our already formidable strengths as we confront the opportunities and challenges ahead of us.
Tyler has been at The Post since 2021, producing regular scoops and high-impact enterprise reporting on the Biden administration. This year, he wrote a four-part series, How Biden Leads, on the president’s leadership style. He won the 2022 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He is also the co-author of a forthcoming book on the 2024 presidential election, to be published this year by Penguin Press.
He graduated as the valedictorian from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, and earned a master’s degree in comparative social policy at Oxford even as he was on his adventure in Africa with Nick.
Tyler will start in February. Please join us in welcoming him.
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