Shashank Bengali

Deputy editor @nytimes London by way of Singapore, Bombay, DC, Cairo, Nairobi, Kansas City and Cerritos, Calif. Always dreaming of LA.

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

Some personal news: Thrilled about this new challenge with a great group of colleagues.

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

We’re excited to announce the creation of a breaking news hub in London, built on the success of our Express and Live teams. Shashank Bengali will take on the new role of deputy editor for the hub. https://t.co/EJYRCYvKTL

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

@DavidOvalle305 Welcome, David! DT alums, unite…

[Andrew Keh @andrewkeh]

I wrote about the unfortunate Olympic mascot plush toy shortage befalling Milan — and how I eventually found one: https://t.co/9X5bt7ZaLR

[Vanessa Friedman @VVFriedman]

Hitting pause on NYFW to share one of the most delightful Olympic stories I have had the pleasure to report. If you want a moment of cheer, read this - https://t.co/bCfTJzHFIV

[Andrew Keh @andrewkeh]

Olympians eat a lot of pasta. Roughly 1300 pounds of it are being served every day in the athletes' villages.

I wrote about the pleasures of carbo-loading in Italy:
https://t.co/MpVTHiYpus

[Paul Sonne @PaulSonne]

Job Alert: Come join us on @nytimes's award-winning Russia team. https://t.co/fJqJyqKUe4

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

Some news: McClatchy is shutting down their D.C. bureau and laying off some staffers, including a few reporters who cover Congress and the White House.

[Ben Oreskes @boreskes]

“The exhilaration of the last few days of the campaign is like little else, but so is the anxiety,”@ZohranKMamdani said during the game.

“Somebody described it to me once like playing tennis but not being able to see the score until the last minute." https://t.co/o63f8IXZsA

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

@VinodSreeharsha Vinod.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

They met at the Israeli Embassy in Washington and fell in love. He was about to take her to Jerusalem to meet his family and bought an engagement ring to propose while there. Then the two were gunned down in DC. @johnjyoon @IKershner Natan Odenheimer
https://t.co/ZjUVv24lis

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

Word of the day: Retaliate

[James Queally @JamesQueallyLAT]

A lot has happened at the L.A. Times, some of it taking the focus away from our excellent journalism.

If you want to know what's really going on, I'd suggest you keep an eye on the Guild Eagle. First issue written by me:

https://t.co/3g3aauXcpC

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

One of the best. A sad time at my beloved LA Times.

[Mike DiGiovanna @MikeDiGiovanna]

Friends, fellow scribes, media members and followers, some personal news …

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

Congrats @SimonChauchard!

[Alex Lee @AlexanderMkLee]

Congratulations to @SimonChauchard, @kharibiskut, and @NiloSiddiqui, who have been awarded the 2025 Rajni Kothari Award for best paper on South Asian Politics for "Misinformation and support for vigilantism: An experiment in India and Pakistan" @APSAtweets
https://t.co/VuoxnbVe8r

[Laura J. Nelson @laura_nelson]

Quite an @latimes front page today.
- 24 hours that changed L.A.: https://t.co/ru9WDkNR8q
- Altadena evacuation orders: https://t.co/6uGqwWplBz
- History of Black Altadena: https://t.co/YYu7D08AXZ
- Nursing home evacuations: https://t.co/BjHDl8svUZ

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

@BasharatPeer @nkreports @TIME Congrats @nkreports !

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

@wstrobel @washingtonpost Congrats to you and The Post!

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

In Gaza, Israel severely weakened its system meant to protect civilians, adopted flawed methods to assess civilian risk and routinely failed to conduct post-strike reviews of civilian harm.

Incredible story by @PatrickKingsley & team. Proud to work w them
https://t.co/CFIdTlPcXB

[Ali Vaez @AliVaez]

Outplayed, outmatched, and outgunned: The unravelling of IRI strategy in the Levant 🧵

[Ilan Ben-Hanan @IBH]

100 days ago, two friends and I launched a new Daily Ranking Game called Quintalist.  The goal is to correctly identify the Top 5 answers to a question in 5 tries or fewer. Celebrating our 100th puzzle today! Check it out at https://t.co/tTWIETubUu. @QuintalistGame #quintalist

[Shashank Bengali @sbengali]

@nancyayoussef Speaking after three Halloween bags of skittles, yes