The Washington Post is losing another veteran editor. Griff Witte is leaving to become a managing editor at The Atlantic, responsible for leading its politics and accountability team.
“In his new role for us, Griff will help build and lead our coverage of politics and democracy, with a special focus on government accountability and investigations,” editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg writes.
Goldberg adds: “As many of you know already, Griff is a journalistic force, who has led his 50-person team at The Post with energy, creativity, smarts and ambition. His experience on the democracy beat, in particular, will help us in our coverage of the various challenges to the American way of governance.”
During Witte’s 23 years at the Post, he spent considerable time as a foreign correspondent.
“As a stalwart of the foreign desk, he covered insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, wars in Gaza, the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, the return of autocracy in central Europe, and the dawn of the Brexit era in Britain,” Goldberg adds.
Witte will report to Yoni Appelbaum, deputy executive editor.
The news broke earlier this week that Philip Rucker, a Washington Post national editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, is leaving the Post after 20 years to join CNN as senior vice president of editorial strategy and news.
