Sarah Bahr
Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times
Sarah Bahr grew up in Brownsburg, Ind., a suburb of Indianapolis. She started her career as an arts reporter and digital producer for The Indianapolis Star, where she interviewed a sex doctor from Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, learned how to unclog a toilet in 12 seconds and profiled a 35-pound cat. Sarah joined The Times as a reporting fellow for the Culture desk in 2020. Since then, she’s written more than 550 stories for 13 desks, including breaking the story of a racially insensitive job posting that led to the resignation of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s chief executive, publishing the first assessment of damage to the art at the U.S. Capitol after the Jan. 6 attack and spending two months investigating diversity in New York City’s cultural institutions. Sarah has won awards for her reporting from the New York Press Club and the Los Angeles Press Club.
She currently operates as a senior staff editor on the Flexible Editing desk at The New York Times. She also writes across various sections of the paper, most often for the Culture, Styles, Metro and Times Insider desks. Sarah writes about theater, film, TV, music, visual art, pop culture, parties and nightlife. She also takes people behind the scenes of some of the most important and well-read stories for the Times Insider section.