Rebecca Blumenstein

Rebecca Blumenstein is NBC News President, Editorial, a position she has held since January 2023. In this role, she is responsible for the network's bureaus and correspondents across the nation and the world, NBCNews.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and other functions.She previously served as a Deputy Managing Editor of The New York Times, a position she held from February 2017. At the Times, she led digital and expanded live coverage and worked as a partner to Publisher A.G. Sulzberger.Before that, she spent 21 years at The Wall Street Journal, the final four as Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Earlier, she was the Page One Editor, foreign editor, and managing editor of WSJ.com. She was the Journal's China bureau chief from 2005 to 2009, and led the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2007. She started at the Journal in 1995 in Detroit, where she covered General Motors, and moved to New York in 1998 to cover telecom. She began her career at the Tampa Tribune, Gannett Newspapers, and Newsday. She co-founded and moderated the Journal's Women in the Economy Task Force and was named to the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship in 2009.In 2026 she co-authored The Last Free Women (Grand Central Publishing) with journalist Diana Kapp. Drawing on the Times' efforts to evacuate its Afghan colleagues after Kabul fell in 2021, the book follows four young women from that evacuation as they build new lives in America.