Award-winning journalist to lead Washington Postâs Australian set-up
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The Washington Post is establishing a bureau in Australia in a bid to report more extensively on issues that resonate with US readers, including the countryâs relationship with China and its position on climate change.
The publication, owned by Amazonâs billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, has appointed reporter Michael Miller as its bureau chief to be based in Sydney. Foreign editor Douglas Jehl said the decision to move Miller to Australia will allow the newspaper to deepen its coverage of the region.
Katerina Ang joins The Washington Post as a breaking-news editor in Seoul WashPostPR
Announcement from Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl and Director of Global Live News Josh du Lac: We’re very pleased to announce that Katerina Ang will join The Post to become a breaking-news editor at our hub in Seoul. Katerina will partner with Kendra Nichols, the Seoul hub editor, in launching a team that is playing a key role in our global expansion. Katerina is a savvy, entrepreneurial journalist with broad experience as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast and other organizations in Asia, the United States and Europe. She was a digital editor for the Journal in New York, where she helped to reinvent real-estate coverage for an online audience. At Condé Nast, she was a global commissioning editor for Vogue Business, helping to launch the company’s first international business title from a base in London.
The news that
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron would retire at the end of February was greeted with the most sustained outpouring of encomia since Philip Rivers hung up his cleats a week earlier. Baron, the
Post‘s boss since 2013, was credited with reviving the storied paper after years of declining morale and finances, was called “fearless” more often than William Wallace, and was even played by Liev Schreiber in an Oscar-winning movie.
The backward-looking hosannahs hadn’t even stopped though, before the much juicier and much more journalistically iffy forward-looking phase had begun: The guessing game over Baron’s successor. Of course, as with any high-profile job hunt in a gossipy environment like a media organization, the people engaged in the speculation (a nearly 1,000-person newsroom full of folks who are professionally trained to sniff out rumors) are not the ones who actually get to pick (that would be