Sally Buzbee, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, will become the new executive editor of The Washington Post, succeeding the recently retired Marty Baron, notes Grumpy Editor.
As AP’s top editor since 2017, her emphasis on live coverage of breaking news events in all formats, augmented by deep enterprise reporting, has helped yield top awards.
Along with Buzbee’s new post, Paul Farhi of The Post notes women are now in charge at CBS News, ABC News, NPR, MSNBC, Reuters, Financial Times, Guardian and the Economist.
Selected after a wide search of potential candidates, Buzbee starts her new job on June 1.
Meanwhile, AP is searching for a new executive editor.
Fred Ryan, the Post’s publisher and chief executive, says “Sally Busbee has an exceptional record of achievement and a tremendous wealth of experience in leading a global news organization.”
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