I have some terrific news. Livia Albeck-Ripka, who has reported for The Periods in numerous roles for numerous many years, like a five-thirty day period short term stint on Categorical this 12 months, will be becoming a member of the newsroom permanently, reporting for the crew from California.

Livia has previously contributed substantially to The Times. She was a fellow on the Local weather desk right here in New York, a reporter in the Australia bureau and a freelancer for a variety of desks out West. Her do the job has been highlighted on The Day by day and The New York Periods Presents, our documentary sequence, and throughout the newspaper. She has a B.A. from the University of Melbourne, and a master’s from Columbia’s journalism college.

In 2018, she was awarded a Rosalynn Carter Psychological Wellness Journalism Fellowship for her creating on psychological health and fitness. She has also composed for The Atlantic, National Geographic, VICE Magazine, Quartz and The Outline. In 2014, she was awarded a residency at Fabrica, a creative studio in Italy, where by she worked on narrative assignments and wrote for Hues journal.

She has also performed stints on are living briefings about the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and, most lately, Hurricane Ian.