Expensive everybody,
I’m writing to share the blissful information that two of Washington’s most completed and authoritative reporters, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, are becoming a member of The Atlantic as a part of our effort to deepen our protection of the incoming administration, and of America’s tumultuous politics extra usually.
Ashley and Michael, who each come to us from The Washington Submit, have distinguished themselves as scoop-driven stylists—they’re each relentless, well-sourced reporters with a eager sense of language and narrative, and a deep perception within the significance of accountability journalism. They are going to make nice additions to our already glorious politics workforce. As we transfer into 2025, it’s vitally necessary for us to cowl Washington—the implementation of the MAGA agenda; the function of cash (international and home) in our politics; the way forward for the Democratic Get together—in essentially the most complete and rigorous manner doable, and Ashley and Michael will play necessary roles in serving to us meet our targets.
Ashley, the Submit’s senior nationwide political correspondent, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who lined Donald Trump’s first time period, and lined the Biden administration as White Home bureau chief. Earlier than her time on the Submit, she spent 11 years at The New York Occasions, the place she lined the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress, amongst different topics. (She acquired her skilled begin on the Occasions as Maureen Dowd’s analysis assistant, and earlier than that she served as a reporter and an editor on the world’s best school newspaper.) Ashley was a part of the Submit workforce that gained a Pulitzer Prize for Nationwide Reporting in 2018, for protection of Russian interference within the 2016 presidential election. She was additionally a member of the workforce that gained the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2022, for its protection of the causes, prices, and aftermath of the January 6 siege of the Capitol. And he or she was a part of the Submit workforce that gained a Pulitzer Prize for Nationwide Reporting in 2024, for his or her protection of the function the AR-15 performs in American tradition.
Michael has been a nationwide political reporter on the Submit since 2017, specializing in campaigns and elections. Most just lately, he lined the Republican presidential primaries and the internal workings of the Trump, Biden, Harris, and Kennedy campaigns. Michael’s determination to hitch The Atlantic represents a sort of homecoming; he’s {a magazine} author at coronary heart, having beforehand labored at Time, first as a marketing campaign reporter starting in 2007, earlier than changing into the White Home correspondent and later Washington bureau chief. He wrote greater than 20 cowl tales for the journal, together with two Particular person of the Yr tales, and interviewed Trump six occasions. Earlier than becoming a member of Time, Michael served because the Washington correspondent for Salon, the Washington correspondent for Mom Jones, and an assistant editor on the Columbia Journalism Evaluate. He started his profession as a reporter for the Each day Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass., masking native colleges and metropolis authorities. Michael has served on the board of the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation, and gained the Nationwide Press Membership’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Excellence for his article on the 2012 Obama reelection effort, and the 2014 New York Press Membership Award for Political Protection for a canopy story on the 2013 authorities shutdown.
Please be part of me in welcoming Ashley and Michael to The Atlantic.
Greatest needs for a contented new 12 months,
Jeff
