Washington Post names Firozi its climate and weather news editor

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.