Doug Jehl named deputy managing editor of The Washington Post

Doug Jehl

An announcement from Executive Editor Matt Murray:

I’m pleased to share that Doug Jehl is being promoted to Deputy Managing Editor as he steps into a newly created, and important, role for The Post in London, driving domestic and international coverage overnight with oversight of The Post and our digital platforms during the U.S. off-hours.

Doug will be our top newsroom leader during those hours, guiding decision-making on our digital platforms, mobilizing reporters and other journalists to cover early news, running the 7:30 a.m. global news meeting and setting up the day for us in DC. The London and Seoul Hubs will report to him, and we expect to add several new editing and other roles to those teams as we work to better set up the US morning. He will report to Jason Anders, who arrives early next month.

Doug brings superb news judgment, strategy chops, operational experience and wisdom to this masthead role, and I am pleased he will be more deeply involved in developing strategies for serving non-US readers and helping us broadly on our reinvention. Among other duties, he will be The Post’s representative as well for high-level public and private events and meetings overseas, working with commercial colleagues as needed.

Doug has been one of the most impactful and significant leaders of The Post in recent times and a mentor, advisor, and anchor for many. As International Editor, he has driven aggressive coverage of the defining events of our time, championed ambitious and impactful enterprise, and expanded Post coverage by opening new bureaus and overseeing the creation of the London and Seoul news hubs. No editor has more stamina, which is fortunate given the constant press of change and news during his tenure.

A partial list of events he oversaw includes devastating earthquakes in Haiti and near Fukushima, global migration on a massive scale, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan after the U.S. pullback, China’s quest for greater influence around the globe, devastation of the rain forests in Brazil, the global pandemic, political unrest in Latin America, political change in India, Brexit, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent war, the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and war in Gaza, the fall of Assad in Syria, dramatic gains by Islamic extremists in Africa, and the election of two Popes, including the first American one.

Doug will transition to his new role in June.