Lori Montgomery
Washington, D.C.
Editor overseeing the National staff
Education: Northwestern University, BS in journalism
Lori Montgomery is deputy national editor, with responsibility for The Washington Post's coverage of politics, national security, health/science/environment and breaking news across the nation.
Before becoming an editor, she spent more than three decades as a reporter, most recently covering U.S. economic policy during the Obama administration. In that role, she wrote extensively about the TARP bank bailout, the Obama stimulus package and the Democratic overhaul of the health-care system. She also spent many a long night on Capitol Hill tracking crisis legislation to raise the debt limit and