Washington Post names new AME for business

Business editor Greg Schneider has been named the new AME for business coverage at the Washington Post, according to a memo from executive editor Marcus Brauchli posted on the Romenesko site that details a broad newsroom reorganization.

Schneider replaces Sandy Sugawara, who is becoming editor of the paper’s new universal desk.

Brauchli writes, “Anyone who has watched Sandy’s incredibly agile oversight of the business and financial staff, especially the way she and Greg led The Post’s super coverage of the economic and financial crisis, will understand immediately why she is the right person to take on the immense task of creating a new, high-octane news engine.

“Greg, a smart, seasoned editor with experience on National as well as Business, will take over the business staff from Sandy and become The Post’s main national economics and business editor. Greg has more than earned this field promotion after the often-heroic hours and exacting editing he put into the business staff’s outstanding coverage of the financial and economic crisis.”

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Before coming to the Post, Schneider worked at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun. He joined the Post in January 2000 to cover the defense industry. In 2006, he helped lead the Post’s national security team before joining the business desk at the end of the year.