Jennifer Preston

Jennifer Preston

Jennifer Preston has spent the last twelve years as a reporter, editor and newsroom manager at The New York Times, where she now oversees the regional weekly sections and content for nytimes.com/intheregion. Before joining the Times in 1995 as state house bureau chief in New Jersey, Jennifer worked at the Philadelphia Bulletin, Philadelphia Daily News and New York Newsday, where she held a variety of different jobs including, Deputy Metropolitan Editor, City Hall Bureau Chief, and Police Bureau Chief.

While a reporter in Room 9 at City Hall for six years, Jennifer published a book, Queen Bess, about Bess Myerson, the former Miss America and Koch administration official who was caught up in New York City's municipal corruption scandal in the 1980's. As a reporter, she has also won several investigative reporting awards, including the Golden Typewriter Award for Public Service by the New York Press Club for a series on the police use of deadly force by off-duty police officers.

In addition to her experience as a newsroom manager in News Administration at The Times, where she was involved in staffing, recruiting, labor relations, budgeting, and strategic planning, she has also worked as a circulation marketing manager at Newsday. She has attended newsroom management and leadership programs at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business Administration.  Jennifer is a graduate of Boston University.