James Graff, the tech policy editor at The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and ending a 45-year career in journalism.
He joined The Post in July 2024.
He previously headed the justice and judiciary team in the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, where he shepherded such projects as an annotated video report on Trump’s speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021; a look at how political divisions over the subsequent attack on the U.S. Capitol carried over into the FBI; and an account of how antiabortion groups use cellphone data to target ads at visitors to Planned Parenthood clinics.
His team also produced deep analyses of arguments in crucial Supreme Court cases and antitrust investigations into Google and Amazon.
Before joining the Journal’s world desk in New York in 2014, Graff was executive editor of The Week, a news magazine with editions in the U.K., the U.S. and Australia. Before that, he was a longtime editor and bureau chief for Time, with postings in Ottawa, Vienna, Chicago, Brussels, Paris and London.<
Graff has a BA in the humanities from the University of Chicago and studied history at the University of Munich.
