New York Times climate editor Lyndsay Layton sent out the following:
We’re thrilled to announce that Mike Madden, a highly regarded editor at The Washington Post, will be the new deputy editor for policy and politics on the Climate desk.
Mike was most recently the Washington economics editor at The Post, where he managed reporters covering economic policy and helped sculpt the broader coverage of government spending and taxes as well as the Trump administration’s transformation of the federal work force.
Last year, Mike oversaw a torrent of news and impactful scoops on the Department of Government Efficiency; the year before, he ran The Post’s coverage of economic policy in the 2024 election while he also steered The Money War, a seven-part series about the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions that won the Gerald Loeb award for international reporting. That ability to manage dailies and exclusives while also steering ambitious enterprise will help Climate build on its successes. And Mike’s sophisticated understanding of economic issues will be a great asset to our climate coverage as a hotter planet has broad implications for industries and businesses.
Before directing economic policy coverage, Mike was a deputy editor and later acting editor of The Post’s Outlook section, where he assigned and edited provocative essays from a wide range of contributors and helped manage other editors.
“Reporters love working with Mike, and for good reason: he has terrific story instincts and the ability to navigate fast-moving, complex stories with ease,” said Matea Gold, Washington editor.
Earlier in his career, Mike was the editor of Washington City Paper, the city’s weekly alternative paper, where he directed all editorial operations and managed the newsroom. Before that, he worked as a Washington correspondent for Salon and Gannett. He started his career in the South Jersey bureau of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Mike will remain based in Washington, although he will make regular trips to New York. He starts Feb. 23. Please welcome him.
— Lyndsey Layton and Jesse Pesta
