Daniel J. Wakin

Dan Wakin has been a journalist at The New York Times since 2000. He currently is an editor on the Obituary News desk. Previously, he was deputy editorial director of NYT Global, a strategic team focused on international audience, and a deputy editor of the Culture Desk. As a reporter for the Times, his beats included religion, classical music, dance and general assignment. He has covered stories in more than a dozen countries and two papal elections.

Before joining The Times, Dan worked for The Associated Press as news editor for southern Africa based in Johannesburg and as a correspondent in Rome, where he lived for six years, and Newark, N.J. A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in the Classics, Mr. Wakin is an avid amateur clarinetist and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.