Quick Facts
Biography
Joseph Sexton is an American journalist who has been the metropolitan news editor of The New York Times since 2006. Previously, he had been deputy metropolitan news editor since 2003.
As deputy metropolitan news editor for investigations and enterprise (a post he held until 2003), among the series he oversaw was one by Clifford J. Levy on the abuse of mentally ill adults in group homes in New York which won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2003.
Career
Sexton studied Irish politics, history and literature at the School of Irish Studies in Dublin, Ireland in 1980, then received a B.A. degree in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982.
In 1984 Sexton was a founding member of The City Sun, an African American weekly newspaper based in Brooklyn that was founded by Andrew W. Cooper. The City Sun folded in 1996. He has also worked for the Bergen Record, the Syracuse Post-Standard and United Press International.
Sexton joined the Times in 1987 as a sports reporter, covering major league baseball and the National Hockey League.
Sexton's other posts at the Times include:
- metropolitan reporter (1994-?)
- enterprise editor, Sports desk (1998–1999)