Teddy rejoins us from Puck, where he carved out a niche writing about billionaires and their influence in the overlapping worlds of politics, philanthropy and technology. Based in Washington, he will take up permanent residence on the Politics desk and will lead our campaign-finance coverage down the stretch to November. Teddy returns to The Times after interning in Washington in the summer of 2014 under Carolyn Ryan and Elisabeth Bumiller, where he took to heart Elisabeth's advice not to try to stay at The Times, but instead to go out into the country, learn the craft and then make his way back. When Puck started up in 2021, Teddy joined as a founding partner and wrote with verve about Silicon Valley wealth, and particularly its deployment in the midterm and 2024 elections. That set off a year or so in which Teddy sought to divulge new details on Mr. Bankman-Fried's influence operation every week.

Source: New York Times May 23, 2024 08:47 UTC