Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne reward for a successful journalism career at The Washington Post might be a move into a different medium, like NBC News.
Leigh Ann Caldwell is reversing the dynamic.Caldwell, who has been with NBC News since 2014, will join The Washington Post as one of the two writers on its morning newsletter, “The Early 202,” as well as an interviewer of newsmakers and Congressional leaders on Washington Post Live, the news outlet’s streaming-video forum.
She has covered Capitol Hill for NBC News since 2019, writing articles and appearing on camera on both NBC News programs as well as MSNBC.While the notion of a journalist working in text and video simultaneously might seem like an aberration, the fact is that the ability to toggle between media venues has fast become de rigueur across the industry. “I would say that it is all reporting,” says Philip Rucker, deputy national editor at The Washington Post, in an interview.
The “202” newsletter aims to give readers the details about Washington power centers they need to know in a pre-dawn missive.
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