Autumn Brewington
Project Editor
Brewington is a contributing editor to the State of Local News report, overseeing Bright Spots. She was an editor at The Washington Post from 2001 to 2014 and from 2020 to 2024. She worked in The Post’s national and business news sections before joining the opinion department, where she was editor of the op-ed page from 2007 to 2014. She edited for The Wall Street Journal and the national security affairs website Lawfare before rejoining The Post in 2020. In addition to editing, Brewington launched and wrote The Post’s royal newsletter in 2022 and 2023. She was a spring 2024 media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
