Bruni, who up until now had been a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine, will begin writing a Sunday Op-Ed column. Bruni first joined the Times in 1995:
Frank Bruni, whose writing career at The New York Times has spanned two presidential campaigns, part of a papacy and more than five years as chief restaurant critic, has been named an Op-Ed columnist.
Andrew Rosenthal, editor of the opinion pages, said in an e-mail to the staff on Monday that Mr. Bruni would write a new column in The Times’s redesigned Sunday Op-Ed pages.
“This column, which will be a new anchor feature of the section, will be a sharp, opinionated look at a big event of the last week, from a different or unexpected angle, or a small event that was really important but everyone seems to have missed, or something entirely different,” Mr. Rosenthal said. “It will fast become a destination for our readers with Frank at the keyboard.”
He said Mr. Bruni would also write a column one other day of the week, most likely Thursday.
Mr. Bruni, 46, is the first openly gay Op-Ed columnist in The Times’s 160-year history.