MAKE (OR BURY) A CAREER AT THE 'TIMES'

Carolyn Ryan decides who gets a good beat, and who gets beaten down.

- SHAWN MCCREESH

AFTER THE ELECTION of Donald Trump caught the New York Times by surprise, the paper reassigned its politics editor, Carolyn Ryan, to a new role: personnel czar. The move was technically a promotion-Ryan was now on the masthead-but to many it looked like she'd been sidelined. Turns out they got it all wrong. The Times, flush with new subscribers, embarked on a "Trump bump" hiring spree, and Ryan oversaw the recruitment of more than 400 people and a wave of promotions and reassignments. She also never entirely stopped editing; she'd "tear my columns up, and occasionally insult me, but always make them 30 percent shorter and 50 percent better,"