I finished my stint at the Times in 2016, moving to the Washington Post, and Evan stayed on for another year or so, first as my successor’s assistant and then – once the paper ended the public editor role in 2017 – joining the staff of the Times’s reader center. “I sat next to Evan when he was your assistant and we were great buddies in the way desk proximity provides,” recalled features reporter Katherine Rosman, who came to the Times from the Wall Street Journal. Jonah Bromwich, an earlier assistant of mine in the public editor’s office and now a Times metro reporter, recalled Evan’s personality similarly: “He made friends very easily, and could seem lighthearted, but he wanted a lot for his career and was very driven.”