Sally Buzbee

Washington, D.C.

Executive editor

Education: University of Kansas, BA; Georgetown University, MBA

Sally Buzbee is executive editor of The Washington Post. Before joining the newsroom in June 2021, Buzbee was executive editor and senior vice president of the Associated Press. Under her leadership, the AP won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the war in Yemen.
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Why we are showing the impact of bullets from an AR-15 on the human body

Executive Editor Sally Buzbee's letter about The Post's series on AR-15s in America explains why the investigation chose to show the gun’s damage to the human body.

March 27, 2023

Letter from the Editor

Executive editor Sally Buzbee on The Post's Climate Solutions coverage.

May 18, 2022

Letter from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee about The Post’s Jan. 6 investigation

Read Sally Buzbee’s letter about The Post’s three-part series “The Attack: Before, During and After.”

October 31, 2021

Letter from the editor

Executive Editor Sally Buzbee's letter about the Pegasus Project and The Washington Post's findings.

July 18, 2021

The search for voices in the rubble

Dozens are still unaccounted for after a sudden building collapse in the Miami area. And introducing The Washington Post’s new executive editor, Sally Buzbee.

June 25, 2021