I’m delighted to let you know that Craig Timberg, a respected Washington journalist with coverage experience across politics, national security, technology, investigative work and foreign affairs, will join us in early September as Washington bureau chief.
Craig will oversee our teams reporting on the White House, Congress, foreign affairs/national security, politics, federal law enforcement, domestic policy issues and much more. He also will be responsible for our photo and video coverage from Washington, working closely with visual leaders, as the U.S. moves into a One Newsroom structure.
Craig is known as a collaborative and competitive journalist with an eye for exclusive angles. In his most recent job, as a deputy managing editor at The Washington Post, he oversaw the daily news report and front-page selections of top stories.
Craig began his career covering politics at the Valley News and Concord Monitor, both in New Hampshire, and at the Baltimore Sun. He joined The Post in 1998, serving as a political reporter in Virginia and Washington, as Johannesburg bureau chief covering sub-Saharan Africa and as the national technology reporter. In that job, Craig contributed to two Pulitzer Prizes, on the Edward Snowden NSA revelations in 2013 and on disinformation fueling the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. Craig also led The Post’s work on the Pegasus Project, a journalism collaboration on abuses of government surveillance technology, that won a Polk Award in 2022.
As an editor, Craig oversaw coverage first of education and then national security before becoming senior editor for collaborative investigations in 2022 and a deputy managing editor in 2023.
Craig is a graduate of Connecticut College and co-author of the 2013 book Tinderbox on the flawed global response to AIDS. He and his wife have three adult children.
Please join me in welcoming Craig to Reuters.
Best,
Sally