April 13, 2022

A New Face and a Familiar One Are Joining the Flex Desk

The Flexible Editing desk is adding Wendy Lu, an editor on the copy desk at HuffPost, and welcoming back Sarah Bahr, who excelled as an intern with us three summers ago.

I am pleased to announce that two versatile journalists will be joining the Flexible Editing desk in the coming weeks as senior staff editors. In addition to being talented editors, they’ve both written for The Times, and one of them is no stranger to our department.

Wendy Lu is joining The Times after more than three years at HuffPost as an editor on the copy desk. In that role, she edited assignments as varied as trending news stories, videos and newsletters, hitting the publish button on a vast majority of them.

Outside of her role as an editor, Wendy has reported extensively on the intersection of disability, politics and culture. Last year, she wrote about the discrimination that doctors with disabilities face in the world of medicine.

Wendy comes to our desk after freelancing for The Times since 2016. Her first Times article was about dating with a disability for the Well section, and she has also contributed to the Overlooked series and the special project A.D.A. at 30.

Sarah Bahr is returning to the Flex desk after a standout 10-week run as our summer intern in 2019, when she edited articles from across the newsroom that included Democratic presidential primary debate coverage, a reporter’s ride-along flight into the heart of a tropical storm and, once, a swarm of 25,000 bees on the Staten Island Ferry.

In 2020, she returned to The Times as a reporting fellow on the Culture desk. She wrote approximately 200 articles while based in Indiana, including one that led to the resignation of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s chief executive as well as a two-month investigation of diversity in New York City’s cultural institutions. She also anchored The Times’s coverage of the April 2021 mass shooting out of Indianapolis.

After continuing to freelance for The Times’s Culture, Styles and National desks over the next half year, she returned to editing in January when she joined the Sports desk for a temporary assignment, working nights through the Olympics, the Paralympics and the N.C.A.A. tournament.

Before joining The Times, Sarah worked as an arts reporter and digital producer at The Indianapolis Star.

Pete

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