The New York Times Photo desk appoints three staff editors to new roles; Maud Bodoukian, Sarah Eckinger join London office while Alastair Pike heads to Hong Kong

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We are excited to welcome Maud Bodoukian, Sarah Eckinger and Alastair Pike into new roles on the Photo desk. Maud will be based in London as staff editor for Live, Sarah is based in London as staff editor for International, and Alastair is based in Hong Kong as staff editor.

Maud will be moving from Hong Kong to join the London newsroom as a staff photo editor on our breaking news hub in December. She will focus on our Live coverage on the Express and News desks and will work with colleagues from Photo, Design, Graphics and Video to shape and present visual coverage coming out of our breaking news hub. Maud will also bring her sharp editorial judgment and visual expertise to our European culture coverage, collaborating with reporters and editors based in London and throughout Europe.

Maud is already well known as a wonderful colleague to many in the newsroom — she joined The Times in December 2013 to work as a print editor for the Asia edition of The International Herald Tribune, eventually taking on print editing for the global edition of The New York Times. She estimates she has contributed to more than 2,000 print editions over the last 10 years. More recently Maud has been responsible for assigning photo coverage in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, while also contributing to digital presentations on the homescreen, Express and Live during the hours that New York and London are dark. Originally from Paris, Maud graduated from Sciences Po in Aix-en-Provence. Prior to The Times, Maud worked at Time magazine, Le Monde and Newsweek.

Sarah Eckinger has joined the International photo team in London. In this role Sarah will conceptualize, assign and edit a wide array of news and feature photographs and video for The Times’s International report, with a focus on innovative digital story forms and presentations.

A native of Alabama, Sarah started her Times career in 2013 as a summer intern at The Times Magazine, while still in college. She returned for a repeat performance in 2014. After graduating from Yale as a double major in art and the history of science, medicine and public health, she spent three years at Hearst working at various publications, including Seventeen, Esquire and Elle.

Sarah returned to The Times in 2018 as an editor on the Screens partnership with Samsung, and has edited on the Home, Express, Opinion, International and National desks. She relocated to London in 2022 (on the day the war in Ukraine began) to work on the Live team.

Alastair joined in November as staff editor based in Hong Kong, taking on editing responsibilities for the print edition of The International New York Times. Alastair will also be assigning visual coverage of Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, working with our staff and contributing photographers to produce strong photographic, video and multimedia displays with an eye toward innovative digital story forms and presentations. He will also contribute to coverage outside of the International report, including live news vehicles, homescreen presentations, Express stories and breaking/after hours news.

Alastair is also a familiar face and beloved colleague, having worked with the International desk, the Digital team and the Asia Print Hub over the last four years as a freelancer. He has regularly contributed to some of our most prominent storylines, including the war in Ukraine, the Mideast crisis, the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Prior to The Times, Alastair worked as a photo editor and photographer for Agence France-Presse in Hong Kong and Washington, D.C. He photographed and edited coverage of protests in Hong Kong, the first Trump White House, the Taiwan presidential election, and major news events in the Asia-Pacific region.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alastair studied journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.