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Bruce Headlam is a seasoned journalist and editor with 18+ years of experience in media coverage, editorial direction, and podcast creation. He has worked at The New York Times, Broken Record podcast, and Aventine.

Experience

  • Aventine
    • New York, NY
    • Editorial Director
      • Jan 2022 - Present
      • New York, NY

    • Co-creator and co-host
      • 2017 - Present
      • New York

      Co-host and co-creator of one of the top music podcasts, now in its third season, with guests including Norah Jones, The Black Keys, Jack White, Tyler the Creator and Brandi Carlile. Booked and interviewed guests including Norah Jones, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Yola, Nile Rodgers of Chic, and Nick Lowe.

    • United States
    • Newspaper Publishing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Editor, New York Times Op-Ed
      • 2015 - 2016

      Co-creator and editor of reported comic strip, "Welcome to the New World," winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Commissioned and edited writers and columnists including Hillary Clinton, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Adam Grant, Bernie Sanders, Arthur C. Brooks and Steven Eisman.

    • Managing Editor, New York Times Video
      • 2013 - 2015

      Ran the newsroom's video coverage, overseeing a team of more than 50 employees and many freelancers. During my time there, even as we increased video production, average views per video tripled, we had a record number of Emmy nominations, and the department won its first Pulitzer Prize, for its coverage of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone.

    • Editor, Media Desk
      • 2008 - 2013

      I ran the media coverage for the Times, including reporting on television, Hollywood, newspapers, magazines, new media and radio. Turned David Carr into a media columnist and edited a great collection of reporters including Brian Stelter, Brooks Barnes, Amy Chozick, Julie Bosman, Tim Arango, Bill Carter, Stuart Elliott, Tanzina Vega, Richard Perez-Pena, Michael Cieply and Noam Cohen. I was a central figure in a full-length 2011 documentary, "Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times."

    • Editor
      • 1998 - 2008

      I worked as an editor in various Times sections including Business, Escapes and Circuits. Ran the Times' Monday Business section from 2003 to 2008.

Education

  • 1981 - 1985
    University of Toronto - University of Trinity College
    Bachelor's degree

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