Liz Spayd (Facebook photo)
Liz Spayd (Facebook photo)
Liz Spayd, who was the Detroit News business editor in the mid-1980s before going on to work at the Washington Post for more than two decades, has been named public editor of The New York Times.
The job involves acting as a reader ombudsman and an in-house critic, sometimes putting the editor at odds with members of the newsroom.
Spayd, 57, left The News in 1988 to join the Washington Post, where she held a number of positions during her 25 year tenure. She last served as managing editor.
In 2014, she took over The Columbia Journalism Review, a publication that covers the media.
“Liz is an exceptionally accomplished journalist,” Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of The Times, says in a statement. “Her work at C.J.R. along with her long and successful history at The Washington Post have given her a broad range of experiences that will serve us well as she assumes this critical position serving as a reliable and engaged representative of our readers.”
