Media Moves

WaPo promotes Gold to managing editor

Matea Gold

Matea Gold, a national editor at The Washington Post, has been tapped to serve as managing editor, a role in which she will oversee several major newsroom departments.

Gold has served as national editor since January 2022 and led a staff of more than 150 journalists. She will take on her new role in September.

Gold said:

“It’s an incredible privilege to join the leadership team of The Post and to continue to carry on the values that make this such an exceptional news organization.

“This is a dynamic, ambitious moment for the newsroom, and I’m excited to help shepherd all the great journalism that is to come.”

She joined the Post in June 2013 as a national politics reporter. She then served as deputy editor for the political enterprise and investigations team. Later, she became editor of the that team.

Previously, she spent more than 15 years at the Los Angeles Times.

Gold graduated from UCLA.

Be sure to congratulate Gold on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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