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# “America’s greatest living sportswriter” exits The Washington Post
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/americas-greatest-living-sportswriter-exits-the-washington-post/
- Published: 2025-07-31T21:20:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-01T14:46:40.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Media, #wp-top-right-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:55

**Sports columnist Sally Jenkins is leaving *The Washington Post***to join *The Atlantic Monthly,* starting September 15*,* reports[ *Publishers Daily*](https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/407820/sally-jenkins-is-leaving-the-washington-post-to.html?ref=capitolcommunicator.com)*.*

“Sally is quite possibly America’s greatest living sportswriter — and more generally one of the best feature writers working today,” writes Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, in a memo to the staff. “Sally is joining us from *The Washington Post*, where she has published years of history-making stories.”

According to *Publishers Daily*: “The Post has seen the departure of several columnists, including Jonathan Capeheart, who accepted a buyout offer earlier this month after CEO Will Lewis said that anyone who could not support the *Post’s* mission should accept a buyout and leave.

“However, Jenkins says she is “not leaving out of unhappiness. I’m leaving for an opportunity — the only other job I ever coveted in this world, at *The Atlantic Monthly,”* she says, according to *Awful Announcing.* “I have a weakness for literary pursuits, and it got me.”

“But *The Post* has also lost sportswriters Dan Steinberg and Nicki Jhabvala, *Awful Announcing* reports.”