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About Hanna.
Hanna Ingber, an award-winning editor and writer, has worked at The New York Times for the past decade, pioneering new ways to tell stories and connect with readers. She has written for numerous sections at The Times about divorce, parenting and how we live.
Hanna’s first job out of college was as the lifestyle editor of the Myanmar Times, a newspaper in Yangon. She later worked as a reporter based in Thailand and then India.
A graduate of Wesleyan University and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Hanna lives in South Orange, N.J., with her two boys.
Essays & Articles.
Essays
Hanna has written essays and reported articles for a wide range of publications over the past two decades. A number of her pieces for The New York Times have reached its most popular list.
Here is a selection of her work.
The Digital Fragments We Leave Behind
The New York Times, May 3, 2023
My Ex and I Fought About Everything. Then Came the Coronavirus.
The New York Times, March 20, 2020
How to Make Kids Feel at Home in Both Homes After a Divorce
The New York Times, April 1, 2022
My Jewish Sons Have a Christmas Tree, and I Need to Deal
The New York Times, Dec. 24, 2019
Holidays Are Tough After a Divorce. Here’s How I Learned to Prepare.
The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2021
I Won’t Let Divorce Kill My Shabbat
Forward, Sept. 13, 2021, subscription may be required
Six Months Pregnant and Asking, ‘Am I Depressed?’
The New York Times, March 31, 2016
Hartford Courant, Nov. 16, 2003
Hartford Courant, May 25, 2003
Photo Credit: Kristine Foley
Articles
Hanna has reported from Myanmar, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.
Here is a selection of that work.
Child Marriages Burden Young Nepalis
GlobalPost, Oct. 30, 2011
PRI’s The World, Sept. 8, 2011
How Bohra Muslims Set Themselves Apart
GlobalPost, April 24, 2011
Lessons From India’s Largest Slum
GlobalPost, May 17, 2011
The HuffPost, Nov. 29, 2009
LA Weekly, May 20, 2009
Editorial Projects.
As an editor at The Times, Hanna has led initiatives that explore using social media, comments, text messaging, live reporting, newsletters and other vehicles to tell stories in new ways and connect with readers.
Here are some projects that she spearheaded. Note: These links may require a Times subscription.
Shira Ovide, The New York Times, April 2020 – Sept. 2022
The New York Times Reader Center
A newsroom initiative that experimented with ways to build deeper ties and trust with The Times’s audience,
May 2017 — January 2020
Why We Collected ISIS’ Internal Documents, and What Happens Next
Rukmini Callimachi and Michael Slackman, The New York Times, May 31, 2018
‘You Know, I Never Told You This’
Josephine Sedgwick and Nancy Wartik, The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2017
Part of package that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service
‘I Live in a Lie’: Saudi Women Speak Up
Mona El-Naggar, The New York Times, Oct. 28, 2016
Moving to Venezuela, a Land in Turmoil
Nicholas Casey, The New York Times, January — February 2016
Traveling in Europe’s River of Migrants
Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times, August — September 2015
Photo Credit: Kristine Foley
Contact.
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