Joseph Kahn becomes the new editor-in-chief of the New York Times.
The former China Correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner succeeds Dean Baquet, who is due to switch positions after eight years as editor-in-chief at the newspaper.
Kahn, who studied history at Harvard, has worked for The Times since 1998.
Since 2016, he has held the second most important position in the editorial team as managing editor-in-chief.
He previously ran the newspaper's Beijing bureau and international department.
In the past few years, Kahn has, among other things, pushed ahead with the expansion of real-time reporting and visual offerings as well as international expansion, the Times said on his appointment as editor-in-chief.
The Times publisher AG Sulzberger said Kahn's "intellect, sound judgment and steadfastness" made him the perfect editor-in-chief.
Kahn began reporting from Beijing in the late 1980s.
In 1994 he received his first Pulitzer Prize as a member of the Dallas Morning News team for reporting on global violence against women.
In 1998, Kahn joined the New York Times.
The 65-year-old Dean Baquet took over the editorial office in 2014 as the first black editor-in-chief.
Previously, Jill Abramson served as first editor-in-chief.
She had already got rid of her job after three years, at that time friction in the editorial office was unmistakable.
During Baquet's tenure, the paper received 18 Pulitzer Prizes.
According to the newspaper, Kahn will in future lead the largest "Times" editorial team since its founding, with around 1,700 employees.
He will start his new job as editor-in-chief on June 14th.