Washington Post announces start of third newsroom
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last few months, colleagues from the newsroom, opinion and business teams have focused on creating and developing a plan for WP Ventures, formerly known as the “Third Newsroom.” The goal is to explore how The Washington Post can effectively grow our […]
Washington Post hires former WSJ ME Pensiero as standards editor
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Thursday: I’m delighted to share the news that Karen Pensiero will be joining The Post in January as our Standards Editor, a new masthead position reporting to me. Karen, the former managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, is passionate about fair, ethical and independent journalism. […]
Washington Post seeks a media editor
The Washington Post is looking for a media editor to lead a team of reporters on breaking stories and enterprise features about the fast-paced, vital and continuously evolving world of modern news media. The ideal candidate will bring a thoughtful yet urgent approach rooted in deep knowledge of the contemporary media scene, and be able […]
Washington Post hires Najmabadi as breaking biz news reporter
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery, deputy business editor Sandhya Somashekhar, business breaking news editor Robbie DiMesio, deputy business breaking news editor Sergio Non and weekend business editor Helen Fessenden sent out the following on Monday: We’re excited to announce that Shannon Najmabadi is joining The Post as a breaking news reporter on the Business desk, […]
Macmillan wins Welles Prize
Washington Post reporter Douglas MacMillan has won the Welles Prize from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. MacMillan, Bagehot class of 2017, was awarded the Welles Prize for his work on Memory Inc., a series of stories in The Post investigating how elderly people with memory problems had wandered away from the assisted living […]
What led Lorenz to leave the Washington Post
David Folkenflik of NPR writes about the departure of tech columnist Taylor Lorenz from The Washington Post to start her own publication. Folkenflik writes, “Lorenz’s professional fate at the paper was in doubt even prior to her announcement. Since August, its editors had grappled with the disclosure that Lorenz had labeled President Biden a ‘war criminal’ in a […]
Washington Post hires Ackerman to cover the Fed
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery, deputy business editor Sandhya Somashekhar, economics editor Jennifer Liberto and Washington economics editor Mike Madden sent out the following on Monday: We are thrilled to announce that Andrew Ackerman, who has spent more than 13 years covering financial regulation in Washington, will be joining the Economics team to cover […]
Washington Post taps Siegel to cover economics of housing and real estate
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery, deputy business editor Sandhya Somashekhar, economics editor Jennifer Liberto and Washington economics editor Mike Madden sent out the following on Monday: We’re excited to announce that Rachel Siegel is taking on a new assignment covering the economics of housing and real estate. This is a critical moment for the […]
Washington Post’s Wiener to cover housing and development
Aaron Wiener is moving back to reporting to cover housing and development for The Washington Post. Wiener is currently the editor of Retropolis, The Post’s history section, and an assignment editor on the Metro desk. Before joining The Post in 2021, he worked as a senior editor at Mother Jones, a housing reporter at Washington City […]
Semafor hires Dadouch to cover Saudi region
Semafor has hired Sarah Dadouch to cover Saudi financial, business and geopolitical news. She has been at The Washington Post as a Beirut-based correspondent covering Syria and Lebanon, as well as the Gulf. Previously, she was a Reuters correspondent in Beirut, Riyadh and Istanbul covering Lebanon, Syria, the Gulf and Turkey. She grew up in Damascus, Syria. […]
