Washington Post promotes Finn to senior editor for international investigations

Peter Finn

The next excerpt was sent out from The Washington Post’s overseas editor Doug Jehl:

We are really happy to announce that Peter Finn will turn into senior editor for international investigations, a new management placement aimed at elevating our capacity to deliver unique and consequential global journalism.

As the extremely accomplished chief of The Post’s countrywide stability group due to the fact 2013, Peter is the excellent man or woman to start this new purpose. As element of Put up groups, Nationwide Stability team customers have received the Pulitzer Prize a few instances and two times ended up finalists in his time as editor.

In this part, Peter will oversee a new team of correspondents based generally outside the United States, with a focus on original, bold and penetrating journalism on key protection spots of world wide significance.

As senior editor for intercontinental investigations, Peter will be element of Foreign, functioning alongside a visual business editor and in partnership with regional editors who retain key accountability for diverse areas of the entire world. Beyond International, Peter will do the job notably carefully with the Visible Forensics staff and will coordinate intently with other newsroom groups, together with National Stability, Investigations and Technology to develop the cross-departmental reporting partnerships that are generally demanded to develop the very best attainable investigative do the job.

Right before turning into countrywide security editor, Peter was The Post’s bureau main in Warsaw, Berlin and Moscow. He pioneered a new counterterrorism conquer following the 9/11 assaults and claimed from Europe, the Center East, North Africa and South Asia, providing a extensive line of special stories.

He was also 2 times a Pulitzer Prize finalist for global reporting as aspect of Submit groups for protection of the war in Kosovo and coverage of the war in Afghanistan.

Peter is also the co-writer and writer of two guides, “The Zhivago Affair” and “A Guest of the Reich,” and is the editor of three added publications, two of them Post projects: “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy” by Greg Miller and “The Mueller Report.” A third e-book, “Herbert Corey’s Fantastic War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Observed It All,” which he co-edited, is forthcoming up coming month.

Peter will start to changeover into his new role in the months in advance but will continue to be national protection editor right until a prepare to realize success him is in spot.