Patrick LaForge | The Latest York Times
I actually have some great news. Livia Albeck-Ripka, who has reported for The Times in various roles for several years, including a five-month temporary stint on Express this 12 months, might be joining the newsroom permanently, reporting for the team from California. Livia has already contributed much to The Times. She was a fellow on the Climate desk here in Latest York, a reporter within the Australia bureau and a freelancer for various desks out West. Her work has been featured on The Day by day and The Latest York Times Presents, our documentary series, and throughout the newspaper. She has a B.A. from the University of Melbourne, and a master’s from Columbia’s journalism school.
“I’ve written stories about the whole lot from Maine’s lobstermen to Byron Bay’s ‘Hot Instagrammers’ and California’s water witches,’ she said. “In early 2020, I spent weeks reporting on Australia’s devastating wildfires, and in 2019, in a two-part series for “The Day by day,” told the story of a father desperately attempting to get his daughter, a former ISIS bride, home from Syria.”
In 2018, she was awarded a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship for her writing on mental health. She has also written for The Atlantic, National Geographic, VICE Magazine, Quartz and The Outline. In 2014, she was awarded a residency at Fabrica, a creative studio in Italy, where she worked on narrative projects and wrote for COLORS magazine. “And ate numerous tiramisu,” she adds.
On Express thus far this 12 months, she has covered heat waves (including the effect on UPS drivers without air-conditioning), the red tide, interesting laws about rap lyrics, an overrun California city contemplating the mass slaughter of geese, a purloined Churchill photo, more floods and fatal wildfires, and, yes, fish falling from the sky. Plenty of fish. She has also done stints on live briefings in regards to the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and, most recently, Hurricane Ian.
