Washington Post taps Stockwell as executive local editor

In her role, Jamie will oversee Metro and also lead a cross-department group that will identify ways to deepen our engagement with local readers and expand our reach through curation, presentation and off-platform opportunities. She will have the title of Executive Local Editor, reflecting her responsibility to shape the journey of local readers through The Washington Post.

This is a homecoming for Jamie, who got her start in journalism at The Post in 1999 — first as an intern in Financial and then as a reporter in Metro, where she worked for eight years. During her time here, she covered police and courts in Prince George’s County at a time when the police department was under scrutiny for alleged civil rights violations. She also reported extensively on the 2002 Washington Beltway sniper shootings, along with another sniper that later stalked Charleston, W. Va., and chronicled how the MS-13 gang operated in Northern Virginia.

For the last two years, she has served as the executive editor of Axios Local, leading an expansion of reporters to 30 cities across the country. Before that, Jamie was a deputy national editor at The New York Times, where she oversaw award-winning coverage of the South, Texas and the Southwest, as well as Race/Related, a cross-desk initiative that produced nuanced, provocative stories about race. Jamie previously held several editing roles at the San Antonio Express-News, including as managing editor for more than six years, leading the newsroom’s daily operations for digital, mobile and print audiences.