It’s the start of a new month, the unofficial start of summer.
That makes it the perfect time to talk about the newest voices on the USA TODAY Opinion team.
Starting this month is Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times best-selling author, whose latest book, Daughters of Erietown, is released in paperback today. She’s a frequent public speaker and guest on national television and most recently wrote a nationally syndicated column. Her new weekly column will be exclusive to USA TODAY and the USA TODAY Network.
Schultz writes about current events and policy and politics, but mostly, she writes from the heart, about life. Her time as a single mom and now as a grandparent, growing up in Ohio, where she still lives with husband Sen. Sherrod Brown. She calls out injustice, praises good deeds, honors her dogs and champions women.
Veteran AP journalist Sally Buzbee is appointed editor of the Washington Post - the first woman to hold the job in the paper s 144-year history
The Washington Post named Sally Buzbee, a veteran journalist with the Associated Press, as executive editor on Tuesday
It s the first time in the paper s 144-year history a woman has been named to head the role
Buzbee will oversee the Washington Posts expansion plans, with owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos opening new bureau in Sydney and Bogota
Her appointment was welcomed by Washington Post staff and former colleagues on Twitter, where she was described as an incomparable leader