• by Ray Schultz , April 24, 2025

The Washington Post has named editors for the three new departments it announced last month: futures, politics and government, and national.  

Zach Goldfarb will lead futures, Lori Montgomery will lead politics and government, and Jennifer Amur will lead the national department.

The futures department combines several areas of coverage aimed at helping readers understand and act on the major forces transforming the 21st century. A two-decade Post veteran, Goldfarb was the founding editor of the climate & environment department. Prior to that, Goldfarb served as deputy business editor, helping to oversee the Post’s coverage of business, technology and economics. 

Montgomery, a 25-year Post veteran, will focus on extending the Post’s reporting and analysis about the politicians, policy and powers in Washington, DC and across the country. Montogomery has run the business desk since 2021, and will continue leading the economics team. In 2015, with investigative editor David Fallis, she oversaw the building of the first-ever national database of fatal police shootings, a project that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. In 2019, she oversaw a 2019 series that exposed hotspots of global warming, which also won a Pulitzer Prize.

Amur will be tasked with deepening the Post’s coverage of issues, trends and personalities across the U.S. She joined the Post in 2014 as an editor on the homepage, then went on to oversee the Post’s newsletters and alerts. She edited a story from Angola that was part of the Pulitzer-winning 2C series. She has also served at the Hurriyet Daily News, an English-language newspaper in Istanbul, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.