Anthony Ramirez, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, is a metropolitan reporter for The New York Times, where he compiles the Metro Briefing column. After college, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, based in Atlanta. He then moved to The Los Angeles Times, based in San Diego, where he was the business editor for the San Diego County Edition. He moved to New York when he became an associate editor for Fortune magazine, where he covered aviation and science. He later joined The Times, where he covered consumer products, telecommunications, and the stock market before moving to the metropolitan desk. He can wing his way through the categorical imperative, still spell Liebniz, minuscule, and Antietam, but has forgotten volumes of classical Greek and Latin, as well as the exact location of his apartment keys. He is the New York AAJA chapter's vice president.