Thompson, 41, will be responsible for leading the newsroom’s efforts in the recruitment, hiring, promotion and mentoring of staff members, with an eye toward expanding the newsroom’s diversity. Currently an editor in The Post’s Style section, she will join the news organization’s masthead as one of four deputies to executive editor Martin Baron. She is the first African American woman to become a managing editor in the newspaper’s 143-year history. “A diverse staff makes our reporting better,” Thompson said in an interview Monday. The Post said last year that 71 percent of its newsroom staff is white, including 79 percent of top managers.

Source: Washington Post July 28, 2020 14:47 UTC