Announcement from National Editor Phil Rucker, Senior Politics Editor Dan Eggen and Campaign Editor Sean Sullivan:
We are delighted to announce that Brianna Tucker is taking on a new assignment as deputy campaign editor on the National Politics desk, a role in which she will help shape our best-in-class coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Brianna will help guide the talented team of journalists chronicling this extraordinary political moment in America, with a focus on helping drive vivid, agenda-setting and peerless reporting from the campaign trail. She also will help edit our in-the-moment coverage and organize staff deployments to ensure our report is timely, comprehensive and engaging new audiences.
Brianna is a compassionate colleague, incisive line editor and font of fresh ideas. Moreover, she is detail-oriented and calm under pressure, skills that are essential in mobilizing reporters across numerous time zones and battleground states.
She will bring to this role the skills she honed in the past year as a deputy politics editor leading coverage aimed at engaging the next generation of Post readers. A creative force, she embraced dynamic storytelling formats to showcase our on-the-ground political reporting to social platforms, as well as on our site.
Her work helped expand the reach and impact of our journalism with younger and more diverse readers through accessible and visually dynamic coverage of Congress and the 2022 midterms. That included chronicling Wisconsin’s high-stakes, high-spending Supreme Court election; introducing Instagram users to the youngest state Democratic chair in the United States; explaining congressional traditions like the House office lottery and C-SPAN footage during the speakership vote; asking 2024 GOP candidates what issues matter most to younger voters at the Iowa State Fair; and taking audiences behind the scenes on the campaign trail and at a presidential primary debate.
Brianna joined The Post in 2021 as a deputy editor on the 202 newsletters team, editing news and analysis for our flagship morning political newsletter The Early 202 and helping launch The Climate 202. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and is a recipient of the 2022 Maynard Institute Fellowship, which cultivates media leaders to expand diversity and belonging in our industry.
Please join us in congratulating Brianna on her new role.
