Sandhya Somashekhar named Deputy Business Editor at The Washington Post
Sandhya Somashekhar, “an insightful and creative (Washington Post) editor with a long track record of delivering distinctive journalism,” is being promoted to Deputy Business Editor at The Post.
According to WaPo, “Over nearly two decades at The Post, Sandhya’s talent, ambition and collaborative spirit have drawn fans in every corner of the newsroom. As an editor, she has led some of The Post’s most accomplished writers through some of its most complex investigations – always with exacting standards, deep empathy and a fierce dedication to doing whatever is right for the story.
“Sandhya joined the Business desk two years ago from Outlook to manage a team of reporters covering an array of regulated industries including health care, medicine, food, energy and – most recently – transportation.”
Somashekhar grew up in Michigan and Maryland, earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and obtained her master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Journalism.
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