Jay Newton-Small

Jennifer 'Jay' S. Newton-Small is an American author and journalist. She has worked for TIME Magazine and Bloomberg News. Since 2024, she has been the executive editor of the Albuquerque Journal. She is also one of the founders of MemoryWell. In 2016, she wrote Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.

Early life and education Jay Newton-Small was an only child born to Sue S. (Tang) Newton-Small, an international lawyer who had been born in Hong Kong as Sok Chun ("Spring Flower") Tang on December 13, 1948, and who fluently spoke Cantonese, and Graham 'Gray' Newton-Small, an Australian economist. They had met in Zambia while both traveled the world for the United Nations and continue to do so thereafter. They were married for forty years and retired to Naples, Florida. Her mother, Sue S. (Tang) Newton-Small, was a passionate Republican fundraiser and socialite who loved George W. Bush and disliked Barack Obama.

Newton Small earned her high school diploma from Deerfield Academy, a B.S. in International Relations and a B.S. in Art History from Tufts University, and a Masters of Science in Journalism in 2001 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Career Newton-Jones worked for Agence France-Presse from 2002 to 2003 and for Bloomberg News from 2003 to 2007, where she covered the White House and US politics. In 2007, she became the Washington Correspondent, Congressional Correspondent for Time. She resigned from the Journal June 1, 2026.

MemoryWell After her father's death from Alzheimer's disease, Newton-Small worked with fellow journalists Denver Nicks and Steve Gettinger to create MemoryWell a company where journalists would interview people with Alzheimer's and write about their lives. The organization was founded after Newton-Jone's departure from Time.

Personal life Newton-Small is married. She can speak English, French, and Spanish. 2016 – Deadline Club award for community service reporting, awarded to Don Von Drehle, Jay Newton-Small, and Maya Rhodan, "What It Takes to Forgive a Killer" in TIME Magazine