Washington Post Beat Reshuffling
Lots of reshuffling over the last week at the Washington Post in some of the paper's major beats. Dan Eggen will join Peter Baker and Michael A. Fletcher on the paper's White House beat. He covered the justice department, and was part of a national team of reporters than won a Pulitzer in 2001 for 9/11 coverage and a finalist in 2006 for a story on terrorists. In the same memo, Post editors said they're looking for a replacement on the justice beat.
The Post is also looking for a replacement for Josh Partlow in the Baghdad bureau. They said in the memo that there is a "leading candidate," but that they want others to apply. It's a full-year gig in Iraq.
In sports, the Post is changing hands on all its major beats. Marc Carig, formerly a sports writer, is the new Orioles beat guy; Barry Svrluga will become the 'Skins third beat reporter for the paper, which leaves an opening for the Nationals.
Thanks for this. We Nationals fans feel the Washington Post has pretty pathetic coverage of our team, and are not surprised to see the Orioles beat writer job filled before that of the home team. I envy Mets and Yankees fans their media saturation, and would accept a fraction of it for the Nationals.
Michael A. Fletcher is a business reporter. Michael Abramowitz is a White House reporter.