After Newsweek, you went to Slate. Did you just fall into digital editing?

When I was getting my start, a lot of traditional journalists didn’t want anything to do with the web. The people who were willing to be a part of that got to take on a lot. It was more of a free-for-all.

How did you go from The New York Times Magazine’s digital editor to head of audio?

That was more of a hop than a progression. I was coming back from maternity leave and joining a team that Sam Dolnick [now a Times assistant managing editor] was starting up. He said, "Do you have any interest in podcasts?" And I said, “Sure.” The leadership wanted someone to spend time focusing on whether there was an opportunity in audio and what that opportunity looked like.

And what have the opportunities turned out to be?

As a business, it’s more than supported by advertising; it’s a place advertisers want to be. Longer term, we’re thinking how it fits into the core Times business as a subscription company. Podcast listeners skew young and female, so getting those people exposed to our journalism is really valuable to us. It’s an audience-acquisition tool in some ways.