Bridgeman joins WaPo as SEO editor
The following excerpt was sent out from The Washington Post’s SEO and operations editor Bryan Flaherty and head of curation and platforms Coleen O’Lear: We are thrilled to announce that Megan Bridgeman is joining The Washington Post as an SEO editor based on the West Coast. In this role, Megan will help support the SEO […]
WaPo’s Kornfield moves to national politics team
Meryl Kornfield, a reporter on The Washington Post’s general assignment team, will join the national politics team as a campaign trail reporter. Kornfield joined the Post in 2019 as an intern. Currently, she is filling in on the White House team before joining the campaign trail this fall. Previously, she interned at the Investigative Reporting […]
WaPo promotes four in video
The following excerpt was sent out from The Washington Post’s director of video Micah Gelman, senior producer for visual forensics Nadine Ajaka, executive producer Tom LeGro and senior producer Lauren Saks: Sarah Cahlan becomes senior Visual Forensics reporter. Sarah was a founding member of the Visual Forensics team, which was announced in 2020, and […]
WaPo hires Zhou as graphics reporter/developer
Youyou Zhou has joined The Washington Post’s Opinion section as a graphics reporter/developer. Since September 2020, she has been freelancing. Recently, Zhou was a senior data editor at Vox.com. Before that, she covered immigration and global migration for Quartz. She was also an interactive news developer at The Associated Press. As per the Post: “Her […]
Washington Post hires Quartz’s Shendruck
The Washington Post opinions section has hired Amanda Shendruk from Quartz to be a graphics reporter and developer. At Quarts, Shendruk was on the Things team, which is chiefly responsible for Quartz’s data-driven, visual, interactive and experimental journalism. She also worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she was its first data-visualization designer. There she worked […]
Washington Post hires Thadani to cover Apple
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery, deputy business editor Christina Passariello and technology industry editor Laura Stevens sent out the following on Monday: We are thrilled to announce Trisha Thadani is joining The Washington Post to cover Apple. Trisha comes to The Post after six years at the San Francisco Chronicle. Most recently, she covered […]
Washington Post taps Ellison to cover democracy, politics and media
Washington Post national editor Matea Gold, deputy national editor Phil Rucker, politics editor Peter Wallsten and democracy cditor Griff Witte sent out the following on Wednesday: We are thrilled to announce that Sarah Ellison is taking on a new assignment as a national enterprise reporter focused on the intersection of democracy, politics and media, with […]
Kim departs The Hill for WaPo
HyoJung Kim will join the Washington Post’s video department to cover politics and the 2024 election. She begins Monday (April 17). The Post reports: “She will be a part of Video’s explanatory team, focusing on a combination of breaking political news and analysis for news from Congress, the White House and the campaign trail.” Since August […]
Osaka to cover gymnastics for WaPo
Shannon Osaka, a climate reporter at The Washington Post has switched beats and will now cover gymnastics. Osaka joined the Post in August 2022 from Grist, where she was a reporter covering climate policy and solutions. She also interned at Grist. Osaka has a MPhil from the University of Oxford, where she served as editor […]
WaPo’s Rubin’s newsletter joins ‘Today’s Opinions’
The following excerpt was sent out from The Washington Post: Today, the Washington Post Opinions section announced the launch of its first-ever subscriber-only newsletter, which will be penned by Opinions columnist Jennifer Rubin. The weekly newsletter will send every Friday beginning April 14. “I’m incredibly excited to have a platform where I can connect with […]
