Wendell Jamieson

Wendell Jamieson is a prize-winning, New York-born and raised writer and editor who spent three decades covering every major story the city had to offer – from riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to the Crash of TWA 800 in 1996 to 9/11 and its aftermath. He has worked for four major New York newspapers, beginning as a copy boy, and is perhaps best known in journalism circles for editing “Portraits of Grief,” the profiles of victims of 9/11 that appeared in The New York Times. From 2013 to 2018, Wendell Jamieson was the Metro editor of The Times, where he led major investigations, such as a deep look at the treatment of immigrant women who work in nail salons, and the litany of reasons that New York’s subways are falling apart. The Times’ Metro department won two prestigious Polk Awards, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist four times, during Jamieson’s tenure. In 2013, Jamieson wrote a story about Josh Miele, who was burned and blinded in an acid attack in Park Slope, Brooklyn, when they were both little, and went on to become a MacArthur-winning scientist and advocate for the blind. They have now written "Connecting Dots: A Blind Life," which will be published in March, 2025. Jamieson is also the author of “Father Knows Less,” about answering the crazy questions from his young son and was published in 2007 by H.P. Putnam’s Sons, and “New York By New York,” published in November 2018, by Assouline, which chronicles the various social and cultural movements of 20th Century New York. The Times said, “‘New York By New York’ is the perfect gift.” Since leaving The Times, Jamieson has freelanced in the strategic communications industry, using his well-honed storytelling skills. He is the editorial director of Nicholas & Lence Communications in Manhattan. He is married with two children and paints landscapes in his free time (of which there is little).