OLD Media News

Parker joins The Washington Post GA desk as weekend editor

Nick Parker

Nick Parker is joining The Washington Post general assignment news desk as weekend editor.

In his new role, he will help direct GA reporters on breaking news and produce timely stories that resonate with readers. He will also help bridge the gap between the normal weekend daytime operations and the handoff to the Seoul and London news hubs.

His starts on May 24.

Parker joins from The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News, where his duties have included rewriting GA’s live-update files into daily stories that move on the wire.

Prior to that, he was an editor at Factal. He was also with The Salt Lake Tribune for more than four years, joining as a sports copy editor and then serving as night editor and copy desk chief. He was also a copy editor at Deseret News.

Parker is a graduate of Westminster College.

Mariam Ahmed

Recent Posts

Dynamo hires former Business Insider executive editor Harrington

Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…

8 hours ago

Bloomberg TV hires Kerubo as desk producer

Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…

8 hours ago

Jittery CNBC staff reassured by new boss

In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…

8 hours ago

Making business news accessible to a wider audience

Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…

8 hours ago

Rest of World hires Lo as China reporter

Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…

9 hours ago

Bloomberg rises to No. 7 biz news website

Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…

9 hours ago