• by Ray Schultz , December 9, 2024

Matea Gold, a managing editor at The Washington Post, has been hired by The New York Times as Washington editor. 

She joins Dick Stevenson, who was named as Washington bureau chief in November. 

“Matea will be a partner to me in managing the bureau and in working with our incredibly talented desk on the daily news report and our mission of producing high-value-added investigative and enterprise work at a time when the world needs it more than ever,” Stevenson wrote in a note to the staff.  

Gold helped create a package on the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol that won the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service, and has supervised coverage that led to three other Pulitzers. She has served as a managing editor at the Post for 15 months, and before that was national editor. 

“Matea comes to us with a stellar track record as an ambitious and creative editor who built and ran teams to tackle the big stories,” Stevenson said. “She’s described by people who have worked with her as a nurturer of talent, a defender of reporting and reporters, and an unflappable manager.”