Matea Gold is Washington editor of The New York Times, where she helps lead the D.C. bureau and coverage of the federal government. She joined The Times in January 2025 after an 11-year career at The Washington Post, where she led Pulitzer Prize-winning work and was at the forefront of some of the news organization’s most creative projects. Most recently she was The Post’s managing editor, overseeing the national, local, investigative, general assignment and data departments. Before that, she was The Post’s national editor, leading more than 150 journalists who covered a wide range of topics, from politics, national security and the judiciary to immigration, race, health and science. Matea, who joined The Post  in 2013 as a national reporter covering money in politics, also previously ran the paper’s national political enterprise and investigations team. An investigative series she led about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was among the stories honored with the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. And in 2023, when she was national editor, the department's work was recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes, one for National Reporting and another for Feature Writing. Matea also was a staff writer for 15 years at the Los Angeles Times, covering presidential campaigns,  politics, Los Angeles City Hall and New York television media, among other beats. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles.