Jody Quon Is T Magazine’s Subsequent Editor in Chief

Since its creation greater than 20 years in the past, T Magazine has embodied the reducing fringe of style and class, and we knew that its subsequent chief wanted to own the imaginative and prescient, confidence and panache to advance that legacy.

We’re thrilled to announce that we discovered that individual in Jody Quon, {a magazine} virtuoso and inventive powerhouse, who would be the subsequent editor in chief of T.

During her 20 years as a key chief at New York Magazine, Jody demonstrated a singular capability to create cultural moments with bold, inventive, award-winning visible ambition.

T is the right canvas for her and the best-in-class staff on the tenth ground that she is going to quickly be a part of. T has at all times been {a magazine} through which tales are advised by way of robust pictures and wealthy visible layouts threaded by way of with elegant writing. And over the past 9 years, it’s turn into a cornerstone of The Times’s cultural protection and a sought-after vacation spot for readers to be taught and immerse themselves within the worlds of artwork, literature and trend. That’s in no small half as a result of management of Hanya Yanagihara, who ended her run as editor-in-chief this spring. 

We couldn’t think about a greater individual than Jody, an knowledgeable within the interaction of phrases and pictures with a novel capability to identify the singular, to guide T on this subsequent chapter.

This is a return to The Times for Jody. After finding out artwork and trend on the Rhode Island School of Design and dealing in trend, she joined The Times as a photograph researcher for Carrie Donovan, who edited Fashion of the Times — a precursor to what would ultimately turn into T. 

She rapidly rose to turn into a deputy photograph editor for The New York Times Magazine’s former director of pictures, Kathy Ryan. In complete, Jody labored at The Times for greater than a decade earlier than leaving for New York. 

When Jody was appointed artistic director of New York final 12 months, the journal’s editor in chief, David Haskell, noted that “No visual editor since the magazine’s co-founder Milton Glaser has had such a profound effect on the magazine’s journalism as Jody has in her two decades here.” 

That profound impact produced visuals that had been arresting, thought-provoking, typically iconic. A pregnant woman over 50. Nepo babies in the nursery. Senior art critic Jerry Saltz as Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol. A time-collapse photo of dozens of New Yorkers at one avenue nook. 

All of this led to a shocking variety of awards, so many, in reality, that it’s tough to summarize. They embrace a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a George Polk Award, and National Magazine awards for General Excellence and Photography, six cowl of the 12 months awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and a number of awards from American Photography. That’s along with being named Magazine of the Year and Cover of the Year by the Society of Publication Designers, in addition to quite a few different awards from SPD.

More lately, her management shone by way of within the wide-ranging physique of labor that gained the National Magazine Award’s 2026 Photography prize. The profitable work included portraits of Broadway legends reprising their defining roles and a poignant photograph essay of the ballerina Misty Copeland’s last day with the American Ballet Theater.

Jody’s appointment to the top of T represents the primary time a pacesetter with a visible arts background has run the journal. We are excited not simply by her plentiful {qualifications} and expertise, but in addition by her viewpoint. She has a capability to make the worlds of trend, artwork literature and music really feel aspirational and deeply compelling — a imaginative and prescient that you simply need to interact with, perceive and perhaps stay inside. 

Please be a part of us in congratulating Jody and welcoming her again to The Times.

— Joe and Sam