Matea Gold, managing editor, former national editor and political investigations editor at The Washington Post, is leaving to join the New York Times as Washington editor.
Gold will partner with enterprise editor Dick Stevenson to run the Times’ bureau in the Capitol, Stevenson wrote Monday.
“Matea comes to us with a stellar track record as an ambitious and creative editor who built and ran teams to tackle the big stories,” Stevenson wrote. “She’s described by people who have worked with her as a nurturer of talent, a defender of reporting and reporters, and an unflappable manager. She has terrific news judgment and knows Washington inside out.”
Matea, who was elevated to managing editor at the Post a little over a year ago, will mange the bureau’s daily news report and investigative and enterprise reporting. Before that she was national editor and ran the Post’s investigations teams during the first Trump administration, when her team won a public service Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Jan. 6 riots.
Matea is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and covered a variety of beats for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, joining the Post in 2015.
“She is a terrific addition to an already powerhouse team, and her hiring is a signal of our ambitions for the years ahead and our commitment to brave, independent journalism,” Stevenson wrote.
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