WaPo names Katy Burnell Evans deputy White House editor

The Washington Post announced that Katy Burnell Evans is becoming a deputy White House editor, joining White House editor Amy Gardner and deputy White House editor Annah Aschbrenner “in shepherding coverage of the Trump administration.”

The Post’s announcement also stated that “Katy joined The Post in late 2021 as an assignment editor on local government and politics, where she guided reporters examining the unequal toll of covid, producing authoritative coverage of the ascent of Maryland’s first Black governor and scrutinizing state leaders and the criminal justice system. Most recently, Katy edited local criminal justice coverage, a portfolio that expanded to include activism, extremism and the federal workforce as President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

“In recent months, Katy has helped reporters break news about Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, collaborating across desks to help drive coverage of the early waves of firings at federal agencies. She also helped them tell deeply personal stories, such as Emma Uber’s narrative about a woman who waited 44 years to tell police about the man who sexually abused her as a child and Emily Davies’s story about Ryleigh Cooper, a Trump voter and federal worker who lost her job amid DOGE cuts.

Evans came to The Post from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she was news editor and creative team leader, directing metro reporters and reimagining coverage. She edited columns by Michael Paul Williams that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

She is graduate of the University of Mary Washington with a BA in political science and Virginia Commonwealth University with an MS in journalism.