The New York Times Names Michele McNally and William E. Schmidt Assistant Managing Editors.NEW YORK -- The New York Times today named Director of Photography Michele McNally and Associate Managing Editor for Resources and Planning William Schmidt to the rank of assistant managing editor. They will both be added to the masthead of The Times as well. The appointments are effective immediately. In making the announcements, Executive Editor Bill Keller said, "The elevation of Michele to the masthead is both a recognition of her own strong leadership and an overdue acknowledgment of the status photojournalism has earned at this paper. In her first year at the paper Michele has made that team more cohesive than it has been in my memory, and has raised the level of its game. And Bill Schmidt has been a genius at overseeing administration of 1,200 people from hiring to retirement, and managing the budget that makes our work possible. He has dedicated himself to extracting the maximum journalistic bang for our bucks, to making every manager accountable for spending wisely, and to helping assure that all of our employees get frank, constructive evaluations of their work." Ms. McNally became director of photography for The New York Times in 2004. Since then, The Times's photography and photo editing have been recognized with a first place award from World Press Photo, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Award and its award for feature photography, and numerous other photo editing awards from Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year. Before joining The Times, she was picture editor of Fortune magazine from 1986 until 2004. Previously, she was picture editor of Time Life's Magazine Development Group. She began her career as a sales representative for Sygma Photo News in 1977. Ms. McNally has judged numerous photography contests, including Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, White House News Photographers, World Press, American Photography and Best of Photojournalism. She serves on the nominating committee for the W. Eugene Smith William Eugene Smith (1918-1978) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Smith graduated from Wichita North High School in 1936. Grant in Humanistic Photography and is Chairman of the U.S. division of World Press. She has edited several books, including the bestseller Day in the Life series. Mr. Schmidt was named associate managing editor for resources and planning in 2003. Previously he had been associate managing editor for personnel and newsroom administration since 1997. He joined The Times in 1981, and spent most of his career at the newspaper as a correspondent based in bureaus outside of New York. He spent ten years working for the national desk, as The Times bureau chief in Denver, Atlanta and Chicago. From 1991 until 1995, he was the newspaper's London correspondent. In 1995, he was assigned to New York as deputy national editor, and helped direct The Times coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing See Terrorism "The Oklahoma City Bombing" (Sidebar); Venue "Venue and the Oklahoma City Bombing Case" (Sidebar). and the 1996 Presidential campaign. Before joining The Times, Mr. Schmidt worked for Newsweek for eight years, the last two as bureau chief in Moscow. For the three years prior to his Moscow assignment, Mr. Schmidt was Newsweek's Middle East bureau chief, based in Cairo. He also served as the magazine's Miami bureau chief and was a correspondent in its Chicago bureau. From 1967 until 1973, he was a reporter with The Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. . In 1987 Mr. Schmidt was among seven reporters and two editors at The Times who shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting
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