WaPo Investigations Editor Named HuffPost Investigative Exec Editor
HuffPost announced this morning WaPo‘s chief of investigations Lawrence Roberts will be the executive editor of its new non-profit investigative unit.
In this new post, Roberts will initially lead HuffPost’s Investigative Fund’s coverage of the economic crisis, Arianna Huffington said in a statement.
As investigations editor at the Post since 2004, Roberts lead the paper’s Pulitzer prize-winning coverage of the Abramoff scandal and an investigative series about former Vice President Dick Cheney. The Post’s articles about farm subsidy misuse, also directed by Roberts, was a finalist for the Pulitzer gold medal.
Roberts joined the Post in 1995 as a founding editor of the paper’s Web site.
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