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Englund named Washington Post energy reporter

WIll Englund

Washington Post business editor David Cho and deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb sent out the following announcement on Thursday:

We are thrilled to announce Will Englund will become the new energy reporter in Business.

He will be tasked with crafting enterprise and accountability stories on a beat that ranges from the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and Russia to the agencies that set U.S. policy. He will track energy companies, which are some of the biggest in the economy and are influential in Washington. And he we will work with the reporters on National to cover how these corporations respond to climate change and other environmental challenges.

Will has been in Moscow since July, filling in until a new bureau chief could be chosen, and writing about mass grave sitescrash landingscriminal investigations and mysterious explosions. In 2017, W.W. Norton published his book, “March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution.” In 2014, after covering the ouster of a president in Ukraine, Will became an assignment editor on Foreign, running a stable of talented foreign correspondents.

Will began writing for The Post in 2010, when he and his wife Kathy Lally moved to Moscow. It was their third joint tour in Russia, the first two having been in the 1990s for The Baltimore Sun. From 2008 to 2010 he covered the White House for National Journal.

Before that, Will spent several decades at The Sun, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for a project on shipbreaking that took him from Brownsville, Texas, to a fetid beach in India.

Will was born and grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., but is now a confirmed Baltimorean, commuting along with Kathy on the MARC. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Harvard. Every year he makes a roasted pumpkin dish for Thanksgiving that he learned from a cook in northern Afghanistan in 2001.

Will begins his beat Dec. 16. Please join us in congratulating him on his new role.

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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