Rebecca Blumenstein

Rebecca Blumenstein is NBC News President, Editorial, driving journalism and original content across the organization’s broadcast and digital platforms. She oversees NBC News editorial teams, newsgathering, field operations, booking, “Meet the Press,” “Dateline NBC,” and NBC News Studios. She reports to Cesar Conde, Chairman, NBCUniveresal News Group.

Prior to joining NBC News, Blumenstein was a Deputy Managing Editor at The New York Times. In that role she led an expansion and elevation of the Business report and ensured The Times remained an essential destination for live coverage and breaking news.

Blumenstein served as deputy editor, Publisher’s Office, from February 2021 to May 2022. She worked closely with New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger to support The Times’s rapidly growing journalism operations. She spearheaded a pivotal revamp of The Times’s policy on social media, investigations and outside projects. During the intense news year 2020, she led the news desk and a dramatic expansion of live coverage of the pandemic, the racial reckoning and the election.