Choire Sicha


Choire Sicha is an American writer and blogger. As of September 2017, he became the editor of The New York Times Styles section. Previously, he served as Vox Media's director of partner platforms, co-editor at Gawker, and a co-founder of The Awl.
His name is pronounced "KOR-ee SEE-kuh".

Career

Sicha began his writing career as an editor for Gawker, The New York Observer, and Radar Online. He launched The Awl in April 2009, with Alex Balk and David Cho, out of his East Village apartment, after Radar magazine folded. The website, described as a "irreverent, all-purpose, media/culture/politics/think-piece/bear-video clusterfuck" by GQ, was based in downtown Brooklyn. Sicha published his first book, Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year in a Large City in 2013.
In February 2016, Vox Media hired Sicha as its director of partner platforms to oversee the media company's approach to platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles, Snapchat's Discover feature, and Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative.
Sicha became the editor of The New York Times Style section in September 2017.