Marc Tracy

Marc Aaron Tracy¹ is an American journalist. He is a reporter on the Culture desk at The New York Times.² Tracy was a staff writer at The New Republic and at Tablet, where he won a National Magazine Award for Blogging.³ He also won a National Jewish Book Award in 2012 for co-editing the anthology Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame.⁴

Tracy received his BA from Columbia University in 2007.⁵ He was a senior editor for The Blue and White and a writer for the Columbia Political Review.⁶ Tracy started his journalism career at Tablet magazine, where he ran the blog that won the last National Magazine Award given for blogging.³ While editing Tablet's blog, Tracy approached Franklin Foer about writing a sports-themed book, which eventually led to the idea for the anthology Jewish Jocks.⁷ The book won a 2012 National Jewish Book Award.⁸ The New Republic hired Tracy as a staff writer in 2012, writing about the media, politics and New York City intelligentsia.⁹¹⁰

In 2014, Tracy joined the staff of The New York Times, covering college athletics for the paper's Sports desk.¹¹ He joined the Business desk in 2019, covering topics in the media industry including the decline of local print media and The New York Times Company.¹² In 2022, Tracy joined the paper's Culture desk to cover debates about representation and politics in the arts.¹³

Tracy is married to Amanda Hess, who is also a journalist and critic at The New York Times.¹¹⁴