Which is to say: The Washington Post feels like a part of my family’s DNA, imprinted on our earliest memories, memorialized among clippings of our hair and other, more traditional, recollections (first diaper blowout, first word). The Post journalists I know have shown a genuine willingness—even an eagerness—to evolve, a spirit of creativity and innovation at a time of transformation in the media. George Packer: The Washington Post is dying a death of despairNearly all media outlets are struggling to reinvent themselves. “There’s sort of an Avis mentality at the Post: ‘We try harder,’” Mike Semel, a longtime Post editor who now works at The Athletic, told me. Andrew Golden, who covers the Washington Nationals for the paper, met and fell in love with his now-wife at the Post.

Source: Washington Post February 04, 2026 18:04 UTC