Hired by the Daily Express at 21, in 1948, she was "game for anything, such as charming her way on to an RAF plane airlifting coal to the Soviet-blockaded city of Berlin. She landed smudged but triumphant."
Lovely read from Veronica Horwell in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
Some echoes from an earlier war: The last Marine to leave Vietnam, Juan Valdez, died this month at 88. He was on the last helicopter to take off from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
“He was a model leader,” said one Marine who served with him.
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Colman McCarthy, the longtime peace activist and Washington Post columnist, has died at 87.
“He wrote about principles — peace and nonviolence — and he lived by those principles,” said Don Graham, the paper's former publisher. “He made The Post better.”
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For @washingtonpost.com, I spoke to former students and colleagues of Tre' Johnson, who died last week at 54. The onetime NFL standout had reinvented himself as a high school history teacher.
“He got me to see more in myself than I knew was there.”
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The (very French) lede of his Le Monde obit:
"When we one day seek to understand what Western civilization was like in the second half of the 20th c, we'll undoubtedly turn to...Wiseman...There is hardly a parallel to [his] monumental project, except perhaps Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine."
RIP Frederick Wiseman. Another, very different cinema giant now lost. He was making movies into his 90s, crafting “a natural history of the way we live” while documenting life at a housing project, psychiatric institution and Michelin-starred restaurant.
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Wrote about LaMonte McLemore, gone at 90, who spread a message of joy as a singer in the 5th Dimension and photographer for Jet magazine.
"He was a sure shot. And I knew that if LaMonte was shooting it, it was going to be perfect."
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If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.
“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
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My obit for Bob Croft, a free diving legend who set three world records while plunging into the Gulf Stream.
“If you’re doing something that could possibly kill you and you don’t have at least a small amount of apprehension, you’re either a liar or a fool.”
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After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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Devastated to lose you as a colleague - you deserve so much better than this - but very glad your rants/raves/broadsides will be landing in my inbox soon 🙏
Chris Richards is of the greatest Post writers of all time, & the best music critic in the country.
You want Chris’s words in your life, & I am going to keep them in mine.
I have never before recommended a Substack. His brand new one has my immense endorsement: thefutureisourstomake.substack.com
I'm so sorry, Jon. You deserve better.
A paper is always defined more by its staff than its management. The hundreds of journalists who lost their jobs today covered every subject imaginable, at times risking their safety and well-being to get out the news. Please consider donating: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
I'm so sorry, JM. It was a privilege to have you as a deskmate. More great work to come, I'm sure 🙏
I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
You could build a newsroom from scratch with all the brilliant journalists who were just laid off at the Post. Devastated for all my friends and colleagues who lost their jobs today
When Myra MacPherson applied for her first journalism job in 1956, an editor informed her he had no openings on the women’s page.
“I said I wasn’t considering the women’s department, and he looked at me as if I had said I just shot my mother.”
RIP 👑 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report.
So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.
For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.
Raised in Jim Crow-era Virginia, educated in a leaky-roofed one-room schoolhouse, Gladys West, 95, became a hidden figure behind the development of GPS. New from me in @washingtonpost.com:
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My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow.
If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost
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As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.
A world without a strong Washington Post is a dark, dark world — more confusing, less informed. While my colleagues and I ask Jeff Bezos to reconsider layoffs and #SaveThePost, please consider subscribing if you don’t already.
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Breaking news: The Post demanded in a court filing that federal law enforcement officials return electronic devices the government seized from a staff reporter’s home, writing that the search “ignores federal statutory safeguards for journalists.”
"Cruise ships used to be about sailing and the sea. If you wanted to rent a room, you went to a hotel. People wore hard pants on planes.
"Those were such quaint times."
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The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)
Investigators told the reporter that she is not the focus of the probe.
The warrant said law enforcement was investigating a system administrator in Maryland who has been accused of taking home classified intelligence reports. https://wapo.st/4qULbi9
