Where I Go: My New York Times Crossword Construction Quest

Getting a Sunday Puzzle Fit to Print Seemed Impossible Until I Did It

When I moved to northern New Jersey in 2012 and took a software test engineering job in midtown Manhattan, I suddenly found myself with an hour-long bus commute. I’d solved newspaper crossword puzzles sporadically for the preceding 15 years, but I had very little patience and wasn’t very good. So when I resumed my crosswording during those long trips, I was determined to become a better solver.

There’s a perception that in order to solve challenging crosswords, you have to be some sort of master of obscure facts, like a Jeopardy! …

New York Times Editorial Board Member Carol Giacomo

He Takes Me in His Arms and Starts to Dance in the Streets in Pyongyang

Carol Giacomo is a foreign and defense policy writer and a member of the editorial board of The New York Times. Previously, she covered foreign policy and traveled over 1 …

New York Times Hollywood Correspondent Michael Cieply

The Journalist-Turned Producer-Turned Journalist’s Story

Michael Cieply is the Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times; a longtime reporter, he also spent a period of time producing films for Sony. Before participating in a panel on infotainment …

New York Times Environmental Writer Andrew Revkin

Embracing Your Inner Dork, One Emoticon at a Time

Andrew Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for The New York Times and is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University’s Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. Before …

Journalist Fernanda Santos

The New York Times’ Woman in Phoenix Says Arizona Lawyers Know How to Party

Fernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times. Before moderating a panel on rebuilding neighborhoods after foreclosure, she talked the trials …