Washington Post taps Eggen as senior politics editor

The following announcement was sent out from The Washington Post’s national editor Matea Gold and deputy national editor Phil Rucker:

Dan Eggen is taking on an expansive new portfolio as senior politics editor, helming The Post’s coverage of the White House, Congress and campaigns across the country. Dan will also oversee much of our political enterprise and government accountability coverage.

Dan is well suited for this role after working on the Politics desk for the past decade.

Dan became an editor in 2013 to run The Post’s White House coverage and then served as campaign editor for the 2016 presidential race.

Dan joined The Post in 1997 as a Metro reporter in the Manassas bureau and then worked in the Fairfax bureau before joining the National staff in 2001, at the dawn of the George W. Bush administration. As a Justice Department reporter over the next seven years, Dan played a central role in covering the 9/11 attacks, the war on terrorism and the 9/11 commission. He was part of a Post team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2002 for its coverage of the war on terrorism.

Dan spent most of his childhood in Minnesota, earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota and previously worked as a reporter at the Des Moines Register and at the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger.