WaPo launches FAST channel on Amazon Freevee

The following excerpt was sent out from The Washington Post: Today, The Washington Post announced that it has launched a free ad-supported (FAST) channel with Amazon Freevee, a premium free streaming service. Washington Post Television, available 24 hours, 7 days a week, will bring its trusted journalism to new audiences – providing an additional destination […]

Washington Post hires Sommer as media reporter

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 […]

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 […]