In July, Kristof told two Oregon newspapers that he was considering running for governor in 2022. He moved back to his hometown farm in Yamhill, Oregon, in 2019, according to The Oregonian.
Read the full memo from Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury to staff below.Few columnists have better embodied the journalist values of The Times than Nick Kristof, which makes it all the harder to say today that he has decided to leave us after a storied 37-year career.
His dispatches don’t just point to problems, they regularly lead to real changes that improve lives — consider the impact his searing reporting on the website Pornhub and on the racial health disparities faced by Native American communities had in 2020 alone. And his reach has only grown as Nick has experimented with and adapted to new mediums. He now regularly uses the power of video, sound, photos and social media, to assure that attention will be paid, particularly by younger generations.
"When Abe Rosenthal hired me in 1984 to cover international economics for The Times, I figured I would leave only by retirement," Nick said. "This has been my dream job, even with malaria, a plane crash in Congo and periodic arrests abroad for committing journalism. Yet here I am, resigning — very reluctantly.
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