About Caryn Ganz

Caryn Ganz was the pop music editor of The New York Times from 2015 to 2026. Previously, she was the editorial director of RollingStone.com, the editor in chief of Spin, the writer and editor of Yahoo’s Amplifier music blog and an editor at MTV News. “Fool the World,” a book she co-wrote about the band Pixies, was published in 2006.

Caryn attended one semester of NYU’s cultural reporting program, quit, and then did essentially every job in journalism: intern, fact checker, editorial assistant, copy editor, news reporter, print magazine editor, digital editor, branded content overseer, social media manager, homepage editor, list maker, feature writer, critic, podcast host, podcast guest, video editor, video producer. She has overseen website redesigns and print overhauls, written thousands of headlines, booked dozens of cover stories, managed large staffs, and blogged about a hilariously wide array of topics.

Stories she has edited have been on the front page of The New York Times, won honors including the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award and L.A. Press Club Awards, and sparked national conversations about sexual misconduct in the music industry and Britney Spears’s conservatorship. Her 2010 cover story about Nicki Minaj for Out magazine was selected for Da Capo’s 2011 Best Music Writing anthology.

At the Times, she has overseen the transformation of pop music coverage from print-focused to digital; run live coverage for the Grammys and Super Bowl halftime; helped develop a host of interactive features and video projects; been a core part of the news operation handling the Sean Combs trial, #MeToo reporting and obituaries; brought in dozens of new writers; and assigned and edited stories giving women like Charo, Sinead O’Connor, and the pioneers of the riot grrrl movement a place to speak their minds.