Hi. I’m Daniel Victor, an editor/reporter for The New York Times, and I live in New York after stints in London and Hong Kong. I’ve been with The Times since 2012 and now edit and report for our Live team, which jumps on the major breaking news of the day. I previously wrote for our Express Team, which is focused on breaking news, explainers, quick-turnaround features and other stories that are written with our digital audience in mind. I had no specific beat, with my work spread across every section of the newsroom.

Here’s an archive of my most recent stories, and a selection of my favorites is below.

As for my work history: I started at NYT as a social media editor, running our Twitter/Facebook accounts while working on broader strategy and crowdsourcing projects. I was the social media editor at ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism. Before that I launched a hyperlocal site for Philly.com and the Philadelphia Inquirer. I was a community host for TBD, a website/TV station that covered local news and sports in Washington, D.C. I also spent four years as a reporter for The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News, I wrote for the Centre Daily Times while attending Penn State, and enjoyed a summer internship at The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle.

I can be reached at daniel.victor@nytimes.com (but I ask you kindly to please not add me to any distribution list or media database.)

My reporting

I have enjoyed a mixture of heavy and light stories, always keeping me on my toes.

The light ones often command attention: Bringing the backstory of Wordle into prominence, an early interview with the “I’m not a cat” lawyer, a ridiculous headline for which I make no apologies, obituaries for internet-famous cats, odes to the downfall of Yahoo Answers and Farmville, a one-word article about reply-all email chains, high-stakes grammar pedantry, and a paragraph written to preemptively counter the inevitable “slow news day” criticism. After one particularly absurd lede, a friend once asked: “Does anyone in this business get to have as much fun as @bydanielvictor?” I believe the answer is no.

I also enthusiastically support animal stories (my favorites are the duck, flamingo, goats, bees and steer), and have dabbled as a sports reporter, covering figure skating in person from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, live-blogging World Cup matches and shedding light on a statistically improbable run of bad luck by one English soccer team.

But I take equal pride in the more serious news. That includes covering the 2019 Hong Kong protests from the streets while delivering context on the basics of the protests, the murder case that started it all, the N.B.A.’s fraught involvement, and why protesters adopted Pepe the Frog as an unlikely symbol.

I’ve contributed, and at times led, our live coverage of major developments in Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Christchurch shooting, overturning Roe v. Wade, the 2020 U.S. elections, and the death of Queen Elizabeth II. I explained protests in Belarus, Kazakhstan and India. And I extensively covered the coronavirus pandemic, including looks at how masculinity affected mask usage, how to handle needle phobias, and the specific plight of single people during lockdowns.

Earlier in my career, I focused on using social media and the power of networks to improve reporting/storytelling. That included a crowdsourced feature that found people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a bomb was detonated, an effort to assemble data on political advertising from local television stations, a ProPublica community for people who had experienced harm as a result of medical malpractice, and an invitation to write original haiku about New York City.