Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. One day in April, working from home like millions of others, Amy Virshup, The New York Times Travel editor and leader of the At Home team, joined the art director Andrew Sondern and the writer Adriana Balsamo for a needed video conference. Their agenda: fold a double sheet of The Times into a hat. Creasing paper and tearing tape for a story is “not something I imagined in my career I would be doing,” Ms. Virshup joked. Imagination is exactly what fuels her team every week for an At Home feature known by its editors and designers simply as “the activity,” a craft, game or other project in which readers learn how to turn the physical newspaper into a unique D.I.Y.

Source: New York Times November 15, 2020 09:56 UTC