Stephen Stromberg

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Stephen Stromberg is a former deputy opinion editor for The Washington Post . [1] He was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. [2] [1] He is among the senior Post journalists who left the paper in 2025, [3] as publisher William Lewis and owner Jeff Bezos curbed the independence of its opinions section. [4]

His work focuses on U.S. politics [5] [1] and government, [6] [7] healthcare, the environment [8] and energy, [9] but he is also one of the few American journalists to write about professional sumo wrestling. [10] Before joining The Post, he covered American politics and economics for The Economist . [11]

An Eagle Scout, [12] he was raised as a Mormon and has written about Mormonism. [13] [14] He grew up in Los Angeles [15] before attending Harvard University [16] where he was editorial chair of the Harvard Crimson . [17] He then attended Oxford University, where he was executive editor of the Oxonian Review . [18]

He is married to former Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, now a staff writer at The Atlantic, and lives in Washington, D.C. [19]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "People: Stephen Stromberg, Washington, D.C. Editorial writer". washingtonpost.com.
  2. ↑ WashPostPR (2022-05-09). "Remarks: The Washington Post celebrates the 2022 Pulitzer Prize Awards". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   1330888409.
  3. ↑ Lincoln, Ross A. (2025-07-30). "Media Columnist Erik Wemple Takes Washington Post Buyout, Will Join New York Times in September". TheWrap. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  4. ↑ Jones, Joseph (2025-03-17). "Washington Post's turnaround on its opinion pages is returning journalism to its partisan roots − but without the principles". The Conversation. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  5. ↑ "Stephen Stromberg". muckrack.com.
  6. ↑ "WaPo's Stephen Stromberg Seems Unclear On The Concept Of Geithner's Ties To Wall Street". HuffPost. May 28, 2009.
  7. ↑ "Yes, Stephen Stromberg, It Is Socialism". National Review . January 19, 2011.
  8. ↑ Strupp, Joe (2014-08-26). "Why The Washington Post Is Running A Series Of Editorials On The "Existential Threat" Of Climate Change". Media Matters for America. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  9. ↑ "Stephen Stromberg | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  10. ↑ Stromberg, Stephen; Ayyub, Rana; Board, Editorial; Basij-Rasikh, Shabana (2021-09-28). "Opinion | The greatest figure in sports, maybe ever, just retired. You probably haven't heard of him". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2025-04-23.
  11. ↑ "Stephen Stromberg — The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
  12. ↑ Stromberg, Stephen (February 19, 2020). "What the Boy Scouts taught me". The Washington Post.
  13. ↑ Yglesias, Matthew (February 17, 2007). "When Faith Matters". The Atlantic.
  14. ↑ "Mormons against Romney". GetReligion. 23 February 2007.
  15. ↑ "Ukraine Students Start 3-Week Visit". Los Angeles Times. October 19, 1999.
  16. ↑ "Stephen W. Stromberg | Writer Page | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com.
  17. ↑ Rimer, Sara (November 24, 2004). "When Plagiarism's Shadow Falls on Admired Scholars". The New York Times.
  18. ↑ "Alumni US | University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom". alumnius.net.
  19. ↑ "Alexandra Petri, Stephen Stromberg". The New York Times. June 24, 2018.


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