Diego Ribadeneira Joins International | The New York Times Company

We are thrilled to announce that Diego Ribadeneira will be joining the International desk to help run our coverage of the Americas. Diego has nearly 20 years of experience at The Times. He started on Metro in 2004 and has been there ever since, playing almost every role — copy editor, weekend editor, day editor, deputy Metropolitan editor and even working on the old City Room blog during Hurricane Sandy and the Sandy Hook school massacre. Most recently, he’s helped oversee the coverage of public transit, the airports, infrastructure, the local economy, small businesses, real estate, housing and New Jersey. “It’s hard to describe what Diego’s departure will mean for Metro because he does so many things for us so well,” said Jim Dao, Metro editor. “He has led our coverage of the city’s economy during the pandemic, lent a vital hand on live briefings, and has been our representative to the weekend team. We’ll miss him — and his wry Slack quips — dearly.” But his passions run beyond local news. He covered Latin American as a foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe for three years, writing about the North American Free Trade Agreement and the assassination of a…
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