Washington Post names Cunningham deputy Washington editor

Washington Post national editor Philip Rucker, deputy national editor Amy Fiscus and senior politics editor Dan Eggen sent out the following on Friday:

We are delighted to announce that Paige Winfield Cunningham has taken on a new assignment as deputy Washington editor on the National Politics desk, where she will oversee some of our marquee newsletters and help shape coverage of Congress and the White House.

In her role, Paige is editing The Early 202 and 5-Minute Fix newsletters and partnering with the White House and Congress teams to drive coverage at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. She reports to senior politics editor Dan Eggen. Paige’s move to the Politics desk, which took effect this month, positions The Post to even more comprehensively cover political and policy news in Washington across our platforms and in varied story forms.

Paige brings to this assignment a wealth of experience and expertise. She previously served as deputy editor on the 202 newsletters team, editing The Health 202 along with guiding our cybersecurity, climate and politics newsletters. An empathetic manager, she helped lead the team with grace and compassion during a period of change this fall. She guides reporters and researchers to dig into their beats, focus their reporting and sharpen their analysis, always with an eye toward what our audiences want and need to read. She also has edited — and, at times, stepped in as substitute author of — the 5-Minute Fix, which delivers concise and accessible political explainers to a large and diverse audience.

Paige joined The Post in 2017 as a reporter to launch The Health 202 newsletter, where she chronicled that year’s battles on Capitol Hill as Republicans tried several times unsuccessfully to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Through her coverage of those fights — and her daily analysis of a gamut of other topics, from Medicaid to abortion to drug prices — Paige became known as one of the country’s top health policy reporters. She crafted nuanced, thoughtful and deeply reported pieces while juggling the deadline pressures of a daily newsletter, making The Health 202 a must-read in the health policy world.

She has also served as a moderator for Washington Post Live, interviewing officials including former health secretary Alex Azar, former Boston mayor Marty Walsh and many members of Congress.