Strengthening our Board: Welcoming Michael Slackman

The OPC Foundation is pleased to welcome Michael Slackman of The New York Times to its Board of Directors. A senior newsroom leader and internationally respected journalist, Michael brings decades of global reporting and editorial experience that will strengthen the Foundation’s mission.

MICHAEL SLACKMAN – Assistant Managing Editor for News 

Michael Slackman was named assistant managing editor for News in 2022 and oversees the daily news report. He has previously been International editor, managing editor and assistant managing editor for International and was in charge of the international news report across the newsroom, overseeing Times bureaus around the globe. 

Michael was deputy foreign editor from 2011 to 2014, helping oversee all global coverage, with an emphasis on coordinating the Middle East report. Before returning to New York, in May 2011, Michael was a foreign correspondent for The Times for six years.

As a correspondent, Michael most recently was the Berlin bureau chief, a posting that lasted a year. Previously, he spent eight years based in Egypt, three for The Los Angeles Times and five for The New York Times. During that period he reported from every country in the region, from Morocco to Iran. He covered Iraq before and after the 2003 invasion, and as both a reporter and an editor, he has helped document the tremendous changes sweeping the Arab world.

Before going to the Middle East, Michael was the Moscow bureau chief for Newsday for three years, covering the economy and social chaos of post-Soviet Russia and the leadership transition from Yeltsin to Putin (1998-2001). As International editor, he has overseen teams that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2017 and in 2020. He was part of the Newsday team that won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting in 1997. He is a graduate of Northeastern University.

A warm welcome, Michael!