Ben Muessig – Former Assistant Managing Editor

Ben Muessig is the former assistant managing editor for storytelling. He began the role in 2022 after three years as Business editor and left in April 2024.

Muessig worked across departments to develop unique step-back coverage of the news and topics that matter most to our audiences, in the forms they favor. That included interactives, reconstructions, profiles, first-person writing, photo and video essays, as-told-tos, vignettes, Column One and other story formats.

Muessing joined The Times in 2016. During that tenure, his unique story ideas and collaborative approach played a part in some of the newsroom’s most original pieces, on topics such as the consequences of sea level rise and the reason doughnut boxes are pink. Stories he edited have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Gerald Loeb Award, and have won The Times general excellence in business coverage recognition from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). Before The Times, Muessig edited at the San Francisco Chronicle and New York Daily News.