Carrie Melago is an assistant Metro editor at the New York Times. Carrie has spent more than two decades covering New York City, including as an editor for the Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York section and a reporter and editor at the New York Daily News. Carrie was also a managing editor for local news at Chalkbeat, the national education news outlet. She began her career as a reporter at the New Haven Register and is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Columbia University.