David Beard is the Sitewide Engagement Editor of the Washington Post. He is the former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of National Journal, Editor of Boston.com and Assistant Managing Editor of the Boston Globe. He worked as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a former digital journalism instructor at the Harvard Extension School, scholar for the Inter American Press Association and graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.  Follow him on Twitter.