Leavenworth departing Washington Post

Stuart Leavenworth, climate and environment policy, politics and power editor at the Washington Post, is leaving for a new opportunity.

Leavenworth previously worked at the Los Angeles Times, where he led multimedia projects documenting the lethal toll of California heat waves, the U.S. radiation legacy in the Marshall Islands, and the human and financial costs of abandoned oil wells in California, among other topics.

He also spent three years as Beijing bureau chief and two years as national correspondent for McClatchy. His reporting and travels have taken him to more than 40 countries, which have ranged from Mongolia to Myanmar.

Leavenworth has also worked at the Sacramento Bee, The (Raleigh) News & Observer and other newspapers. The California native stumbled his way into journalism via the UC Santa Cruz student paper and later received a master’s degree at the Columbia University Journalism School.