New AME for biz at Washington Post

Sandy Sugawara, who has been the No. 2 in the Washington Post’s business section, will become the assistant managing editor/financial now that Jill Dutt is moving on to become AME/Weekends, according to an internal memo.

Dutt was named the new AME/Weekends on Thursday. She had run the department for eight years.

The memo stated, “It will be a seamless transition for Sandy, who worked closely with Jill Dutt in their successful transformation of the Financial staff, the staff’s mission and the content and design of the Business section itself. Among her many other accomplishments during that time, Sandy fostered Financial’s coverage of minority business and the economic impact of immigration in the Washington area, leading to her additional role as the newsroom’s coordinator of immigration coverage, which she helped to expand and deepen significantly. We will designate someone else to continue that coordination when Sandy starts her AME job.

“Sandy worked at UPI, States News Service and the Trenton Times, as its Washington correspondent, before joining The Washington Post as a Metro reporter, covering government in Fairfax and the Richmond bureau. An economics major at Wellesley, Sandy moved to the Financial staff and covered local business, defense contracting and telecom before serving four years as our Asian economics correspondent. On her return to the newsroom, she edited almost every facet of financial coverage before becoming Jill’s deputy as business editor. Sandy has excelled at developing reporters and streams of business coverage. Her leadership ensures a strong future for Financial as it continues to adapt its coverage to changing times, technology, demographics and economic conditions.”

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