• by Ray Schultz , Yesterday

The Washington Post has named Nick Baumann as deputy editor of the paper’s new politics and government department.  

Baumann previously served as politics editor and interim senior politics and democracy editor. Prior to joining the Post last year, he was deputy Washington bureau chief at the Los Angeles Times, and had worked as a senior enterprise editor at HuffPost and a senior editor at Mother Jones. 

“Over nearly two decades in Washington, Nick has established himself as an astute leader of politics and government coverage, always ambitious to bring urgency and insight to the daily report while making sure there is time and space for deep enterprise and probing investigations,” says Lori Montgomery, the paper's politics and government editor.