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Announcement from Executive editor Sally Buzbee. Kat Downs Mulder (Managing Editor) and Krissah Thompson (Managing Editor) are Senior Managing Editors. Steven Ginsberg and Tracy Grant are the Managing Editors.
We are thrilled to announce our new Climate & Environment Department’s leadership team. Together they will help make The Post the world’s premier news destination for climate coverage, building on the compelling reporting and projects that have been one of the Climate team’s hallmarks. This department will include more than 30 journalists, visual reporters, data journalists, editors and data experts. They will anchor a newsroom-wide, global effort to cover climate and extreme weather, as well as their impact on humanity, through innovative journalism, visual-first storytelling and data-driven journalism.
Zachary Goldfarb, currently The Post’s deputy business editor, will move to Climate as department head, where he will bring his experience as a leader of a growing department to a team that is primed to more than double in size with a range of new positions. Juliet Eilperin, an award-winning leader in environmental journalism, will serve as Climate’s deputy department head, where her vast knowledge of the subject and collaborative approach will continue to drive our nationally recognized climate and environment journalism as she works with assignment editors and reporters to bring innovative approaches to this massively important story. Monica Ulmanu will also move to the department as Climate’s first visual enterprise editor, leading a team of five journalists who will conceive and drive timely and penetrating visual storytelling about the climate crisis.
Together they will guide the Climate team’s outstanding reporting on U.S. climate and environmental policy, enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws, pollution and environmental injustices, extreme weather and climate science, and the evolving beats of climate solutions and adaptation. They will also oversee a major investment that reflects The Post’s strong commitment to one of the most urgent issues of our time, leveraging creative and forward-thinking storytelling techniques and empowering readers with accessible, explanatory journalism.
Zachary Goldfarb
Zach has been the deputy business editor for over five years. He oversees a growing team consisting of 55 editors and reporters who cover business, technology, and the economy. He has been instrumental in shaping a large tech expansion, driving best-in-class economics journalism, as well as creating new pods that focus on corporate accountability, general assignment, breaking news, and more recently, the business and health, climate, and food. Zach is excited about leading the construction a new pillar for Post journalism.
Zach was the deputy business editor and has led journalism that has been honored by the Gerald Loeb awards, the Society for Advancing Business Editing Writing and the National Association of Black Journalists. He has contributed to other key enterprise journalism, including last year’s Pandora Project , recent investigations into the nursing home industry amid covid and the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s failures to protect children, narratives about the intersection of race and business, and data-driven storytelling about the pandemic’s impact on the economy.
Zach is an advocate for new storytelling methods and he partnered on data-driven visual stories. He helped launch calculators to explain tax cuts and inflation, and also helped create the MichellebotPersonal finance tool. He has been responsible for covering global energy, the Colonial Pipeline hack, and other bumps on the road towards electric cars.
Previously, he was the Business section’s policy editor, overseeing the economics team and the Wonkblog vertical, an initiative that turned policy stories into widely read, accessible, digitally native journalism. He also helped establish the Energy and Environment vertical. He started his career as a Political Researcher on The Post’s Politics Desk. He was one of the leading reporters on the 2008 Financial Crisis and covered economic policy under the Obama administration.
Zach lives in Washington, with Sarah, his wife, and their sons and daughters.
Juliet Eilperin
Juliet began reporting on the environment in 2004 and has since developed a deep understanding of the subject. She has also covered Congress, the White House and a range of domestic and foreign policy matters. She was White House bureau chief for the last year of Obama’s presidency.
Before being promoted to deputy climate and environment editor last year, she served as The Post’s senior national correspondent covering climate and environment. She was the anchor of coverage on Trump and Biden administrations. This helped expose ethical lapses by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Scott Pruitt, prompting their resignations. For our Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 series on global hotspots, “2C: Beyond The Limit,” Juliet reported on rising seas threatening beach communities in Rhode Island and melting permafrost upending Indigenous traditions in Alaska. She was also the one who developed an online tracker to monitor environmental regulations, which won first place in beat reporting by the Society of Environmental Journalists last season.
She has won numerous other awards, including an honorary membership in the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, the D.C. Environmental Film Festival’s Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2019 and the 2011 Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Media.
She is the author of two books, one about politicians (“Fight Club Politics: How partisanship is poisoning the House of Representatives”) and one about sharks (“Demon Fish: Journeys through the Hidden World of Sharks”) – which, she likes to say, is the more upbeat of the two.
Juliet is a native of D.C. and lives in her hometown with her husband and son, daughter, and two cats.
Monica Ulmanu
Monica joined The Post in 2018 to become a graphics editor. Since then, she has led teams of people from all disciplines to report on, shape and seamlessly integrate graphics, video, design, and data analysis. These efforts have resulted in award-winning journalism, including sophisticated and award-winning journalism. Investigation into low-flying helicoptersDuring a June 2020 demonstration at D.C. to reveal some surprising facts The unvaccinated are at risk from COVID-19A visual-first glance at the fascinating The life cycle of a Brood X cicada.
She is a visionary and creative editor who brings passion and new ideas to her work. She will be overseeing a team of two graphic reporters in her new role at Climate: John Muyskens who focuses on climate and environmental justice, and Naema Ahmad, who played a crucial role in the development of the project. coronavirus vaccine tracker.
Monica directed and edited the graphic analysis and animated mapping at the core of “2C: Beyond the Limit,” which featured a three-dimensional model, multiple animations and an archival 18th-century ship’s logbook to demonstrate to readers how global temperature data has emerged over time. She also led the collaboration among Graphics, Climate, Photo and Capital Weather Gang that showed what fuels the West’s infernos by creating a visual narrativeBerry Creek, Calif. was destroyed by a wildfire. She teamed up with Climate to show her support. Where Russian oil flowsWhat is it? Chernobyl nuclear facility is at risk.
Monica was the special projects editor at The Guardian for a number of years before she joined The Post. She created stories that were visual. the dark side of the Guardian’s commentsShe explained how the London skyline will change in the future. She has also worked for Thomson Reuters and The Boston Globe as well as interned at The New York Times.
Her work has also been awarded numerous distinctions by the Society for News Design and Malofiej, as well as the European Digital Media Awards, NY Design Awards, NY Design Awards, among others. She was also honored with an Edward R. Murrow award in 2018.
Monica is a native Romanian and lives in Glover Park together with her husband Alex and her sons Felix, Milo, and Luna, her pandemic puppy.
Please join us in congratulating Zach and Juliet.
