The UpshotNewsweek’s Weymouth heads to Washington Post
Lally Weymouth, a special diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek, becomes the latest high-ranking staffer to leave the magazine since audio magnate Sidney Harman agreed to buy it from the Washington Post Co.
Weymouth will join the Washington Post later this month as a senior associate editor, according information posted on media site Gorkana (login required). [See update below.]
It makes sense that Weymouth would want to return to the Post flock, especially since she's an heir to the media company's fortune.
Not only is Weymouth the daughter of the late Katharine Graham, the Post's legendary own, but she's also the mother of current Post publisher Katharine Weymouth. Donald Graham, her brother, is chief executive of the Washington Post Co.
Weymouth is known for having a Rolodex filled with the names of world leaders, and the report of her hire mentions that she's done exclusive interviews Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Israeli Minister of Defense Tzipi Livni, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani.
She joins some of Newsweek's biggest names announcing departures in recent weeks, including Jon Meacham, Fareed Zakaria, Evan Thomas and Dan Gross.
UPDATE: This post originally attributed the information on Weymouth's hire to a Washington Post memo. That is incorrect. The information provided to The Upshot from a source was actually from an email of media job changes sent out by Gorkana.
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