The Washington Post names Adam O’Neal as opinion editor

Adam O'Neal (screenshot from a video posted by The Washington Post's public relations account)

The Washington Post said Wednesday that it had hired Adam O’Neal, a correspondent from The Economist, to be its next opinion editor.

Mr. O’Neal will be charged with carrying out a new direction for the section laid out by Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post: to champion “personal liberties and free markets.” Before joining The Economist, Mr. O’Neal was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal, where the opinion pages are reliably conservative.

Mr. O’Neal, 33, introduced himself to readers in a brief video posted by The Post’s public relations account, saying he had “been a journalist for a while,” adding that the section would be “unapologetically patriotic” and use “technology to improve our journalism.”

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