Matt Zapotosky promoted to WaPo’s Deputy Metro Editor

The Washington Post is promoting Matt Zapotosky to Deputy Metro Editor, joining Maria Glod as a senior leader on the desk.

According to The Post: Matt will have responsibility for lines of coverage including criminal justice and breaking news, while Maria, a creative, sharp and unflappable leader, will oversee local politics and local education, among other coverage areas. Both will also shepherd key strategic initiatives in the department in partnership with me, which we will detail in coming weeks.

Matt first came to The Post in 2007 as a summer intern in the Southern Maryland bureau. He returned a year later to cover cops and courts in Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s counties, and later moved to covering cops and courts in Prince George’s County. In 2013, he took over as the beat reporter in the federal courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he notably scooped a teenager’s successful bid to help his friend join the Islamic State and chronicled, with Roz Helderman, the public corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell .Matt moved to covering the Justice Department in 2016, where he produced multiple scoops on the end of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

“He left his own bachelor party to rush to cover the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, where a gunman shot and killed 49 people. He was a key member of the Post team that reported on the investigation of possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, a topic that dominated much of his reporting for the following years. Later, with Jackie Alemany, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and others, he produced several scoops on the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump’s storage of highly classified records at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

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