Trish Hall

Trish Hall is an American journalist and writer. She worked for The New York Times for more than 20 years, serving in various capacities including masthead editor overseeing six feature sections (2010–2011), op-ed editor (2011–2015), and senior editor (2015–2017). The creation of the "Sunday Review" and "Escapes" sections are among her imprints on the paper.

Hall is the author of Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side, published by Liveright/Norton in 2019.

Early life Hall grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania and attended the all-girls Baldwin School ('68) in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia. While there she wrote for the Baldwin Hourglass, the school newspaper. Hall then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as a reporter and then city editor for the student-run newspaper The Daily Californian.

Career Early career After departing Berkeley, Hall worked for several newspapers in Connecticut before landing a job as a copy editor at The Wall Street Journal and then subsequently becoming a food reporter at the paper. where she was credited for introducing into the English language the word "grazing" as a term for tasting small quantities of food.

Hall joined the New York Times in 1986 as a food reporter, continuing to cover the same beat she had at the Wall Street Journal. and wrote the weekly real estate column "Habitats" for the paper. In her new role, she retained her previous responsibilities but would now "also oversee the Styles and Travel sections and coordinate lifestyle coverage across the paper," During her tenure as Deputy Editorial Page Editor for Op-Ed, Hall created the Sunday Review section and significantly expanded the paper's opinion content online, both domestically and internationally.

In September 2015 Hall was appointed senior editor in charge of sponsorships, a new role the company had never before tried, reporting to New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet. In this newsroom position, she worked on new products, sponsorships, and special sections.

On October 16, 2017, New York Times Deputy Managing Editor Matt Purdy announced Hall's departure from the paper. Afterward, Hall joined Ridgely Walsh, LLC as a managing director where she writes and edit Op Eds on behalf of clients.