Washington Bureau Chief

The Boston Globe is looking for a Washington Bureau Chief to oversee a team of four accomplished reporters in a bureau well-known for its strong, enterprising work. In the past, the Globe has won two Pulitzer Prizes for Washington coverage, and has recently won the prestigious Toner Prize for national political reporting. Boston and Washington have a deeply symbiotic relationship. The airline shuttles that go back and forth every hour were filled, pre-pandemic, with people shaping national policy and politics. Our leaders often figure prominently in presidential campaigns, hold positions of authority on Capitol Hill, serve as cabinet secretaries, and have outsized roles in the lobbying, public strategy, and communication shops that drive so much of DC life. Our policies are frequently the foundation for national debates. Our readers are sophisticated and politically savvy, and as such, take Washington coverage seriously. So do we. So we're not here to simply mimic the wire services with cookie-cutter coverage of the story of the day. Rather, we break free of the press pack and drive thoughtful, enterprising coverage on the newsiest topics, while striving to break news that is important to our readership. We care deeply about higher education policies in Washington, innovation, life sciences. But we also understand that our readers value the Globe's reporting and perspective on national politics.