Mara Gay

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Mara Gay (born 1986 or 1987 (age 39–40)) is an American journalist and opinion writer for The New York Times. She was a member of the newspaper's editorial board from 2018 to 2025, where she led the board's coverage of New York state and local affairs, and she is a political analyst for MS NOW, the cable news network formerly known as MSNBC. Gay began her career as a digital staff editor at The Atlantic in Washington, D.C., and later covered New York City government for the New York Daily News and The Wall Street Journal before joining The New York Times in 2018. In 2019 she and Emma Goldberg received a monthly Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation for an investigative opinion piece on the treatment of clients at New York City's Human Resources Administration. She has been named repeatedly to power lists published by the political trade publication City & State New York, which has described her as "one of the signature voices at New York's paper of record."

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