Video Team Welcomes New Faces in New York and Seoul

Jeesoo Park joins as a senior producer based in New York. In this role, she will help oversee our field reporting team, guiding everything from breaking news coverage to original projects and desk collaborations.

She joins us from CNN, where as a supervising producer she led teams across news and enterprise video, working with correspondents daily to deepen and further both national and international news coverage. She reported on topics ranging from Roe v. Wade to immigration to the criminal justice system. In 2021, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for a report featuring the scene on-the-ground in Wuhan, China, as the Covid pandemic was first taking hold.

Previously, Jeesoo worked as a documentary producer for ABC News and National Geographic, creating series and long-form content for both digital and broadcast. She is a D.C. native and a graduate of Bucknell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Courtney Brooks joins us as a senior producer on the Visual Investigations team. Based in New York, she will help manage open-source video investigations and our response to fast-moving storylines. She arrives at The Times from VICE News where, as supervising producer, she was in charge of the U.S. digital video team and oversaw the launch of VICE on Twitch. Courtney also worked as a senior story editor there, focusing on politics, gun violence, abortion rights, and the far-right, and managing investigations into topics ranging from solitary confinement in the U.S. to an opaque court system in India. In her four years at VICE she helped lead teams to win awards including a Peabody and an Emmy.

Previously, Courtney was an editor at Al Jazeera America, covering global news, from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to policing and inequality in the U.S. She was also the executive editor of the website for “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.” Born and raised in Vermont, Courtney graduated from Northeastern University in Boston.

Hannah Yi joins as senior producer based in Seoul. In this role, Hannah will be our video lead in the Seoul bureau, managing breaking news, the video department’s live coverage from the region and news and investigative enterprise.

Before joining The Times, Hannah was a senior supervising producer at The Wall Street Journal and managed the APAC video team. She was based in Hong Kong during the 2019 protests and later moved and expanded the team in Singapore during the coronavirus pandemic. Hannah oversaw daily news assignments and feature pieces in the region, as well as breaking news coverage during New York and London video teams’ offline hours, including the start of the war in Ukraine.

Before moving to Asia, Hannah was based in N.Y.C. for 13 years. She started her journalism career as an overnight desk assistant at ABC News before joining PBS as a producer/shooter . She then worked at Quartz as a senior producer, overseeing and creating digital videos from around the world.

Shawn Paik joins as a video journalist based in Seoul. In this role, he will be a crucial part of our daily news operation from Asia, contributing to live coverage, producing video clips and quick-turn news packages.

Shawn comes from CNN International where he worked as a line producer for its simulcast coverage for both U.S. and International audiences. He produced breaking news from CNN’s control room during the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and Hong Kong’s anti-government protests. He was also among the few in-person producers essential in sustaining coverage from CNN headquarters through the first years of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Shawn started his career as a photojournalist for his hometown newspaper, the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

— Solana Pyne, Mark Scheffler, Sameen Amin and Whitney Hurst