Washington Post economics columnist Heather Long is leaving the newspaper to become the chief economist for the Navy Federal Credit Union.
She has been a 24/7 columnist focused on the U.S. economy, writing about workers, businesses, corporate leaders and more. Long will continue to write a monthly column for The Post. In 2024, Long won a Gerald Loeb Award for commentary.
Long joined The Post in 2017 as the lead U.S. economic correspondent. She led coverage of the Trump tax cuts and trade wars, the Federal Reserve, and the pandemic recession.
She was among the first to identify the “K shaped” recovery and the Great Reassessment of work. Before coming to The Post, she worked for CNN as senior economic reporter and editor and served as the opinion editor of her hometown paper, The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa.
Long is a graduate of Wellesley College and Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She has served on the boards of Wellesley College and Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa.
