Karla Adam, a veteran reporter, brings agility, sharp judgment, fast fingers and a great metabolism for stories to the team. Read more from editors below.
From aering breaking news from The Times’s busy London hub requires agility, sharp judgment, fast fingers and a great metabolism for stories. Our newest hire is a veteran who possesses all this in abundance, in addition to a seemingly boundless ability to spot fresh angles on major events
We are excited to announce that Karla Adam has joined us as a correspondent in the London Breaking News Hub, a partnership of Express and Live. Karla comes to The Times after two decades at The Washington Post, most of them as U.K. correspondent, where she wrote on just about every topic under the sun: elections, royals, climate, conflict and more. She is as comfortable banging out a breaking story from her desk as she is in the field, having authored sparkling dispatches fromthe English countrysideand from Keir Starmer’sfavorite London pub. She has interviewedDavid Attenborough,migrantscrossing the English Channel andreindeer herdersin the Arctic Circle, in addition to investigating the British monarchy’shistoric links to the slave tradeand reporting from across Europe. And she understands the<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/10/eurovision-song-contest-2023/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>Eurovision Song Contestwell enough to explain it to “perplexed Americans.”
“Karla is a brilliant reporter, a lively writer and a trusted colleague,” said Emily Rauhala, an editor on International in London who worked with Karla at The Post. “The London newsroom is fortunate to have her creativity and collegial spirit.”
This is not Karla’s first stint with The Times: She began her career as a freelancer in London, stringing for former Times bureau chief Alan Cowell. Before that, she studied at Columbia Journalism School, the London School of Economics and Queen’s University in her native Canada, where she grew up on an Alberta cattle farm. A former president of the Association of American Journalists in London, she lives in South London.
Please join us in welcoming Karla.
— Melissa Hoppert, Julie Bloom and Shashank Bengali
