A brief history

Rory Tolan is an editor at the New York Times, where he focuses on long-form stories and investigations.

Projects on which he has worked have earned widespread recognition for their impact, including five Pulitzer Prizes. He has edited thousands of hard-hitting articles for a global audience and collaborated with some of the finest writers in their field.

Before joining the Times, he was an editor at Vice, where he had a hand in a variety of genres: war-reporting, columns, front-of-book pieces for the magazine, even short stories.

His passions as a writer are as broad as his editorial interests. Art, literature, music, politics, science — these all engage him. His writing or reporting has appeared in the Paris Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Vice, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Travel + Leisure and elsewhere.

He lives in Brooklyn and is working on his first book.