Washington Post names Firozi its climate and weather news editor

Washington Post climate and environment editor Zachary Goldfarb and climate and environment deputy editor Juliet Eilperin sent the following to the staff on Friday:

We are delighted to announce that Paulina Firozi has become the Climate & Environment Department’s climate and weather news editor.

With this new assignment, Paulina will continue to work closely with editors and reporters across the department, and especially with the team’s weather reporters, to make our coverage as urgent and relevant as possible. She will focus on finding ways to sharpen how we report on daily weather news, along with extreme weather and natural disaster events across the country and around the globe, so we can capture how our planet is changing.

Since joining the Climate and Environment team in 2022, Paulina has made a particular effort to collaborate with editors across the newsroom during moments of extreme weather. She has helped steer live coverage of natural disasters ranging from Hurricane Ian, which devastated parts of Florida, to the wildfires that tore through Maui last summer. She has worked closely with global weather editor Jason Samenow to help guide and edit daily and enterprise weather coverage and has also edited Kasha Patel’s weekly Hidden Planet column, which covers mystifying and marvelous revelations on Earth and beyond.

Prior to joining Climate, Paulina was a reporter on the General Assignment team, regularly covering natural disasters and mass casualty events — including numerous wildfires in the West, fatal shootings in Michigan and Colorado, and the devastating condo collapse in Surfside, Fla. She also wrote on a growing mental health crisis for teens, the brutal mental and physical toll of the pandemic on nurses, and a rare and very (very) big fish.