Jamie Stockwell named a Deputy Managing Editor of the News Hub

Washington Post

4 days ago

I am pleased to announce that Jamie Stockwell will join the leadership team of the News Hub as a Deputy Managing Editor, where she will help drive our digital news day and chart our next chapter as we look to deepen engagement with our audience.
Jamie brings a wealth of experience and innovative thinking to this critical role at the center of the newsroom. Working in close partnership with other senior leaders, she will help guide our journalism in real time, shape our coverage priorities, elevate our storytelling and ensure The Post's report is urgent, ambitious and essential to readers across platforms. She is passionate about helping to find new ways to connect our world-class journalism with an ever-larger audience, and will draw on her experience as a leader at several news organizations.
Jamie – who began her journalism career as an intern and then reporter at The Post – has for the past year and a half been our Executive Local Editor, where she has overseen coverage of major local news including the collapse of the Key Bridge last spring and the midair collision over the Potomac in January, storylines that included round-the-clock reporting, investigations and narrative reconstructs. She also has focused the staff on distinctive and enterprising big swings across a range of beats, including political scoops about the ill-fated arena deal in Virginia, an examination of the unregulated Hajj tourism industry after last summer's pilgrimage left more than 1,300 people dead and the moving story behind a photograph from the 1970s of a group of friends celebrating life with breakfast near the Reflecting Pool.
Before her recent return to The Post, Jamie served as executive editor of Axios Local, where she led an ambitious nationwide expansion and pursued many of the same opportunities we now have as we adapt for the digital road ahead. She was also a deputy national editor at The New York Times, where she oversaw award-winning coverage, and before that, held senior leadership roles at the San Antonio Express-News, including serving as managing editor for more than six years.
Jamie is a seventh-generation South Texan of Mexican descent who was raised on the border. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
Jamie will move to her new role next week. Please join me in congratulating her.
Jason