Sent on behalf of Kimbriell Kelly, Washington bureau chief:Dear Colleagues,I’m excited to announce that Laura Wides-Muñoz, currently the executive editor for news practices at ABC News in Washington, D.C., will be joining The Times next month as the deputy editor of the Washington bureau. In addition to her management experience and expertise in national politics and policy, Wides-Muñoz has spent a considerable amount of time in both Washington and Los Angeles. She grew up on Capitol Hill, and she and her family currently reside in D.C. She began her domestic reporting career working at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to her first stint with The Times, Wides-Muñoz spent three years in Guatemala reporting on the end of the nation’s civil war. A Gwen Ifill Mentor for the International Women’s Media Foundation, Wides-Muñoz majored in environmental studies at Brown University and was a 2013 Nieman fellow at Harvard University.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 17, 2021 20:03 UTC