Announcement from National Editor Scott Wilson and Senior Politics Editor Steven Ginsberg:
For years one of Washington’s most admired Congressional and economic policy reporters, Lori joined the National staff last year in the new position of America editor. Her mandate: To extend The Post’s reach outside the Beltway, help build a network of freelance correspondents, and run some of the staff’s most challenging enterprise.
Her success has been evident in our spike in national audience, in some of the revealing freelance correspondence we have published, including today’s front-page piece on California’s experiment in mass forgiveness, and in our successful breaking news coverage of shootings in Oregon, South Carolina and California. Lori also played a leading role in one of our signature runs of work this year: The Post’s examination of fatal police shootings that included as its digital centerpiece a database detailing each one. The reporters she has worked with – on this acclaimed project and on others – are among her most ardent fans, a prized accolade for any editor.
Lori came to The Post in 2000 as a Local reporter, first covering Maryland state government and then the District. She joined the Financial staff in 2006, becoming an authority on economic policy just as the Great Recession emerged as the biggest story in the world. Before coming to The Post, Lori was stationed in Warsaw and Berlin for Knight-Ridder newspapers, where she led the chain’s coverage of the Kosovo conflict in 1999. She began her career at the Dallas Times Herald, covering the rise of Ann Richards and the failings of the Texas criminal justice system.
A graduate of Northwestern University, she lives in Northwest D.C. with her husband and three daughters.
Please congratulate Lori on her new assignment, which she will begin officially on Monday.
