Amy Gardner and Annah Aschbrenner lead The Washington Post’s White House team

Amy brings to the job a sterling track record as both reporter and editor, having been at the heart of some of our most important political accountability work during the Trump era. She has been an integral part of reporting teams that have been awarded the Pulitzer, Polk and Toner prizes and has pioneered coverage of voting and elections as a founding member of The Post’s Democracy team. Known for her hard-charging rigor and deep sense of fairness, Amy has previously edited Post coverage of Congress and of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Amy will be joined by Annah Aschbrenner, who will become deputy White House editor after successful stints as Congress editor and then as senior deputy campaign editor. Annah, who excels at running coverage of major news events, is an indefatigable font of ideas and helped propel our standout coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. Annah joined The Post in 2022 from USA Today, where she directed reporting on the White House, Congress and national politics.

Amy came to The Post in 2005 from The News & Observer of Raleigh and worked in the Virginia suburbs and on Capitol Hill for Metro before joining National to cover the Tea Party movement, the 2010 midterm elections and the 2012 presidential cycle.

She then moved back to Metro as local politics editor before returning to National in 2015, serving as campaign editor and Congress editor. As a reporter covering voting rights, she was consistently ahead of the competition in her coverage of the 2018 North Carolina ballot-harvesting scandal and of revamped rules for the 2020 election amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Amy landed a series of world-beating scoops about Trump's efforts to reverse his 2020 loss, including his call pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes — one more than his margin of defeat. She co-anchored the “After” chapter of The Post’s multi-award-winning investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. As a member of the Democracy team, Amy has continued to lead the nation on coverage of efforts to undermine trust in U.S. elections.

Amy recently completed her tenure as president of the Daily Pennsylvanian Alumni Association, a post in which she mentored young journalists. She was inducted into the DPAA Hall of Fame this fall.

Please join us in congratulating Amy and Annah on their new roles, which they start today. We will have more to say soon on other additions to our White House team.