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The New York Times Magazine Appoints Ariel Kaminer as Ethicist Columnist

Monday 07. February 2011 - Ariel Kaminer will become the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine beginning in March. The column responds to ethical dilemmas posed by readers each week. She will continue to write The Times's City Critic column, which explores the urban experience for the Metropolitan section. Current Ethicist, Randy Cohen, is leaving the Times to pursue a new radio show.

Previously, Ms. Kaminer was editor of Arts & Leisure and worked at The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine. Kaminer served as the inaugural editor of The New York Times Magazine’s The Way We Live Now section and was instrumental in the development of the Ethicist column.
“We are excited about the fresh new perspective and enthusiasm that Ariel will bring to the column,” said Hugo Lindgren, editor of The New York Times Magazine. “As Times readers know, she is a terrific writer with an original voice and a wonderful sense of humor. She is not only familiar with the Ethicist column, she helped usher it into the world, and we feel very confident that it is being passed from one good set of hands to another.”
Mr. Lindgren continued, “We are also indebted to Randy for his 12 years at the magazine. He lived and breathed the role and made the column one of the most popular pages in the magazine. We wish him well in his next pursuit, which is developing a program for public radio called “A Question of Ethics.”