Despite all this local media activity, “the Post was always the thousand-pound gorilla in local reporting,” said Andrew Beaujon, senior editor at Washingtonian. “Even people who weren’t [directly] consuming Post Local news were consuming it — they just didn’t realize it,” he said. But in the wake of the Post cuts, Plotz decided City Cast D.C. had a bigger role to play in original local reporting. City Cast D.C. also just announced the hire of an executive editor, and is still hiring a managing editor. But he thinks “we’ll do a good job collectively” filling the void created by the Post Local cuts.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2026 18:28 UTC