Katie Van Syckle

Katie Van Syckle

Katie Van Syckle is a Senior Staff Editor on the Styles desk at The New York Times. She has been with the Times since 2018, previously working as a writer and editor for New York Magazine's The Cut.12

Experience

• Senior Staff Editor, Styles Desk The New York Times Feb 2018 - Present · 6 years 4 months1
• Night Editor at the Cut New York Magazine Jun 2017 - Feb 2018 · 9 months1
• Weekend Editor at the Cut New York Magazine Jun 2017 - Oct 2017 · 5 months1
• Freelance Writer/Reporter New York Magazine Sep 2011 - Jun 2017 · 5 years 10 months1
• Reporter/Factchecker New York Magazine May 2011 - Oct 2011 · 6 months1
• Researcher/Factchecker Rolling Stone Magazine Oct 2011 - May 2012 · 8 months1
• Correspondent New Orleans Times-Picayune Mar 2010 - Apr 2011 · 1 year 2 months1

Education

• Dartmouth College1
• Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism

Notable Work

• Wrote cover stories for New York Magazine on Grumpy Cat and the college hookup culture2
• Focused on gender-based violence and college sexual assault in recent work2
• Covered the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gerritsen Beach for New York Magazine, which was picked up by The New York Times1
• Relaunched nightlife coverage for The New York Times Styles desk, reporting on parties at Gracie Mansion, the New York Public Library, and Gwyneth Paltrow's backyard3
• Wrote about the death of the fiddle leaf fig for The New York Times Styles desk3

Katie Van Syckle is based in Brooklyn, New York and lives with her husband, son and cat.2