I’m pleased to report that Adam Nossiter has joined the Obituaries desk as a reporter.
Adam has recently been working in Metro as a senior staff editor, coming off a long and stellar run reporting for the National and International desks, amassing more than 1,500 bylines in producing a wide range of richly reported news, features and analysis.
Most recently he was bureau chief in Kabul and, before that, in Paris, where he’d earlier been Paris correspondent, from 2015 to 2019. He had international duty in Africa as well, serving for six years as the West and Central Africa bureau chief, based in Dakar, Senegal. He led the team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
On this side of the ocean, Adam was a national correspondent covering the South, from a base in New Orleans, from the mid- to late-2000s. He came to The Times — actually rejoined The Times — from The Associated Press, for which he’d been a political reporter in Louisiana, based in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Before his A.P. stint, he’d been a reporter for The Times on the Metro desk for more than a year and a half, in 1995-96.
Adam began his reporting career in 1984, at the The Anniston Star in Alabama. From there he jumped to The St. Petersburg Times in Florida in 1985. Then it was on to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was a regional correspondent covering Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana from 1987 to 1991.
Adam is the author of “The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory and the Second World War” (2001), published by Houghton Mifflin, and “Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers” (1994), published by Da Capo Press. Both were Times Notable Books.
Please join me in welcoming him to Obits, where his broad experience and diverse range of interests (European politics, African literature, classical music, French culture and, of course, the South, to name a few) will be invaluable.
