Zakrzewski joining Washington Post White House team

Cat Zakrzewski is joining the White House team at The Washington Post after six years covering the rapidly evolving relationship between Silicon Valley tech companies and Washington policymakers.

As a national tech policy reporter for The Post, she exposed the limits of the government’s attempts to regulate new technologies and the secretive ways tech companies wielded their influence in D.C. Working with colleagues, she delivered the definitive account of Elon Musk’s overhaul of safety teams at Twitter and revealed how Facebook was failing to address hate speech and disinformation in the Global South.

Previously, she was the founding anchor of The Technology 202 newsletter, now called the Tech Brief, and a venture capital reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

She will focus on the ways tech billionaires are shaping the new Trump administration.