The New York Times Adds New Feature by David Gonzalez; Bronx Native and Former Metro Columnist...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004

The New York Times announced today that David Gonzalez, who served until recently as The Times's Caribbean and Central America bureau chief based in Miami, has returned to New York as a reporter for the paper's Metro desk,

"It's great to have David back on Metro," said Susan Edgerley, metropolitan editor, The New York Times. "He has a gift for showing the big themes of the city through its people and its neighborhoods, through its individual, intimate stories."

A photograph pertaining to the subject of the article will accompany each "Citywide" feature. In addition to "Citywide," Mr. Gonzalez will write other news and political features for Metro.

As Caribbean and Central America bureau chief for The Times since 1999, Mr. Gonzalez covered the post-conflict era in Central America, Haiti's political and social crises and Cuba's adjustment to the post-Soviet world. From 1995 until 1999, he was the Metro section's "About New York" columnist, a post now held by Dan Barry. As a columnist, Mr. Gonzalez wrote often about the Bronx, the borough in which he grew up, and the people there.

Mr. Gonzalez, 46, joined The Times in 1990 and has served as Bronx bureau chief and Metro religion reporter, as well as a general assignment reporter. Prior to that he worked for Newsweek from 1983 to 1990, serving as a correspondent in New York, Detroit and Miami. Among other prizes, Mr. Gonzalez earned Columbia University's Mike Berger Award in 1992 for his coverage of New York City and its neighborhoods.

Before entering journalism, Mr. Gonzalez worked for several nonprofit agencies active in New York City's Latino and African-American communities. He and his family live in the Bronx.

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