• by Ray Schultz , Yesterday

Another columnist has accepted a buyout offer from The Washington Post.

Sports columnist Sally Jenkins is leaving the Post to join The Atlantic Monthly, starting September 15. 

“Sally is quite possibly America’s greatest living sportswriter — and more generally one of the best feature writers working today,” writes Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, in a memo to the staff.  “Sally is joining us from The Washington Post, where she has published years of history-making stories.” 

The Post has seen the departure of several columnists, including Jonathan Capeheart, who accepted a buyout offer earlier this month after CEO Will Lewis said that anyone who could not support the Post’s mission should accept a buyout and leave. 

However, Jenkins says she is “not leaving out of unhappiness. I’m leaving for an opportunity — the only other job I ever coveted in this world, at The Atlantic Monthly,” she says, according to Awful Announcing. "I have a weakness for literary pursuits, and it got me.”

But The Post has also lost sportswriters Dan Steinberg and Nicki Jhabvala, Awful Announcing reports. 

Goldberg adds that Jenkins has also written “stop-everything-and-read pieces” including a study of Hillary Clinton’s father, and a “beautiful, memorable story about how the rubble at Ground Zero went from wreckage to relic,” and a moving obituary of Sandra Day O’Connor. 

Jenkins is the daughter of renowned sportswriter Dan Jenkins.