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Flora Peir is our news editor. She oversees our daily news operation and finds the gender lens on the nation’s biggest stories. An 18-year veteran of The New York Times and graduate of the Asian American Journalist Association’s executive leadership program, she has been a line editor and headline writer for local, national and international news; an assignment editor for late-breaking news; and for the last four years, helped decide what makes the Times’ national print section.

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Latest from Flora Peir

Making our voices heard: What AAPI Heritage Month means to The 19th staff

This Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we reflect on establishing and defending our place in democracy.

Jasmine Mithani, Flora Peir, Mariel Padilla · May 1, 2024
Sen. Tommy Tuberville will lift his monthslong block on more than 400 military promotions

The Alabama Republican had blocked promotions to protest a Defense Department abortion policy.

Flora Peir · December 5, 2023

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