We are excited to announce that Monica Ulmanu will become senior editor for visual storytelling, building on her role as a leader in the Climate & Environment department and helping our newsroom seek out even more imaginative ways to pursue visual storytelling.
In this new position, Monica will help set the overall vision for the Climate department, leading stories that integrate graphics, photos, videos, text and other storytelling styles. She will lead an expanded collaboration between visual teams and Climate to drive experimentation in storytelling that offers immersive and accessible journalism to a broader audience. Monica has strong ideas about how to improve the reader experience, iterate new story forms in the core news experience and try out novel personalization strategies.
Through The Post’s projects planning process and other settings, Monica will also join the cadre of top visual editors at The Post consulting with the masthead and department leaders to support and spread engaging new story forms. She also will build on her successful collaborations with The Post’s Visual Forensics team on visual-first, accountability climate stories.
This well-deserved promotion recognizes Monica’s long-standing leadership at The Post, and especially in driving some of our most ambitious climate journalism—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning series “2C: Beyond the Limit” to our immersive projects last year on climate change and human health, the lessons scientists are uncovering in Earth’s history, and the flooding threat facing Washington, D.C. Beyond project work, Monica has led standout news- and feature-driven storytelling, from our visual narrative on wildfires tearing through Maui to a memorable piece exploring the relationship between British architecture and weather extremes. She has also overseen the creation of a popular new vertical, Climate Lab, that has resonated with readers with stories such as this month’s mesmerizing look at declining bird populations.
Monica became Climate’s Visual Enterprise Editor in 2022 after four years as a graphics editor. In all her roles, she has led teams to report, shape and seamlessly combine graphics, video, photo, design and data analysis. She is known for fostering skill-building and knowledge-sharing among journalists from many disciplines. These efforts have yielded sophisticated and award-winning journalism from the investigation into low-flying helicopters during a June 2020 demonstration in D.C. to an illustrated and animated first look at the intriguing life cycle of a Brood X cicada. She also led a visual narrative of the wildfire that destroyed Berry Creek, Calif.
Before coming to The Post, Monica was special projects editor at The Guardian, where she created stories that visualized the dark side of the Guardian’s comments and explained how the London skyline would change in the future. She also has worked at Thomson Reuters and The Boston Globe and interned at The New York Times.
Her work has received other numerous distinctions from the National Press Foundation, the Society for News Design, Malofiej, the European Digital Media Awards, NY Design Awards, and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2018.
A native of Romania, Monica lives in the District with her husband, Alex, their sons, and her mini labradoodle, Luna.
Please congratulate Monica on her new position, which will be effective Feb. 1.
