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Washington Post hires Sommer as media reporter

Will Sommer

Washington Post features editor Ben Williams and deputy features editor Mitch Rubin:

We are excited to announce that Will Sommer will join The Post as a media reporter on May 15.

For five years, Will has been a politics reporter at the Daily Beast covering right-wing media and conspiracy theories. In articles and on his “Fever Dreams” podcast, Will has covered the breadth of the American right, from internal dissent at Fox News to a QAnon kidnapping gang. Will’s work has been featured in several documentaries, including HBO’s “Q: Into the Storm” and “After Truth.”
In February, HarperCollins published Will’s book on QAnon, “Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America.” In his review, New York Times book critic Dwight Garner called Will “a media obsessive, almost morbidly well informed.”

Before working at the Daily Beast, Will was a campaign editor at the Hill and the Loose Lips city hall columnist for Washington City Paper. Earlier in his career, he wrote DC Porcupine, a blog covering controversies at local D.C. media outlets.

Will graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in international politics. He lives in Capitol Hill with his family and a cat named Hazel.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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