“America’s greatest living sportswriter” exits The Washington Post

Sports columnist Sally Jenkins is leaving The Washington Post to join The Atlantic Monthly, starting September 15, reports Publishers Daily.

“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.”