Tyson Evans is leaving Las Vegas.
Tyson will join the Interactive News Technology team at The New York Times after the general election in November.
Tyson, who many SND members know from his work on this here site, has been a driving force behind the transformation of the Las Vegas Sun’s Web site, as well as designer on the print edition of the Sun.
And, of course, he worked tirelessly on SND Vegas last month as the co-chair of the annual workshop.
“It’s an amazing opportunity,” Tyson said. “I’ll join a new team of geeked-out journalists to explore how the Times can embrace nontraditional storytelling on the Web. My focus will be on interfaces and user experience, and I couldn’t be more excited.”
Tyson graduated from UCLA and interned at the Los Angeles Times before joining the unique effort to remake the Las Vegas Sun.
SND Foundation Director Bill Gaspard, who doubles as the deputy managing editor at the Sun, said the Las Vegas team understands the amazing opportunity that awaits in New York.
“Couldn’t be happier for Tyson and sadder for us. Though I can’t say that I didn’t see this coming” Gaspard said. “From the time I hired Tyson as an intern at the L.A. Times years ago this seemed like a match that was destined to happen.”
“Already one of the smartest guys I know, Tyson’s always learning more,” Gaspard said. “When we designed the Sun website and it came time to actually take it from InDesign into something real, Tyson taught himself CSS and HTML in a very short amount of time. It was amazing. We’ll miss him greatly at the Sun and, of course, at trivia night. Looking forward to seeing his work on nytimes.com and having yet another reason to visit Manhattan.”
The Times’s Brian Hamman said this about Tyson in his welcome note: “His work at the Sun has won awards, but even more impressive, our own Alan Mclean declared his code ‘beautiful.’ He’s a triple-threat with solid design, journalism, and coding skills.”
Sounds about right to us. We have seen all three of those skills at work for SND over the last several years.
Kudos to Tyson on the move to New York. We’re pretty sure he’s going to make it there. He’s made it everywhere else.
Gaddammnit. Goin’ off to be some danged city-slicker… Probably votin’ for the elites, too, and listenin’ to that Vampire Weekend…
Congrats Tyson! Can’t wait to see you here in NYC.
Welcome to the East Coast, Tyson!
Congratulations, Tyson! NYT is lucky to have you.
I’m so proud of you!! Even though I had nothing to do with it.
I’m putting this down on MY resume: Friend of Tyson-Triple-Threat.
Congrats!