Fred Hiatt
Washington, D.C.
Editorial page editor and columnist overseeing the Washington Post Opinions section, 2000-2021
Education: Harvard College, BA in History; Harvard University US-Japan Program; Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Russian language and area studies
Fred Hiatt was the editorial page editor of The Post from 2000 until his death in 2021. He wrote editorials for the newspaper and a biweekly column. Hiatt started at The Post in 1981. Earlier, he worked as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and the Washington Star. At The Post, he covered government, politics, development and other issues in Fairfax County and statewide in Virginia, and later military and national security affairs on the newspaper's national staff. From 1987 to 1990, he and his wife were co-bureau chiefs of The Post's Northeast Asia bureau in Tokyo, and from 1991 to 1995 they