RUTH MARCUS

EXPERIENCE

THE WASHINGTON POST 2016-Present: Deputy editorial page editor. Oversee oped pages and all signed opinion content. Review oped submissions, hire and manage columnists and bloggers, develop multi- platform content including video, chart strategic direction of opinion section and develop digital strategy. As member of editorial board attend editorial board meetings and help shape editorial positions.

2006-Present: Columnist. Write opinion column for oped page and, beginning in 2008, for syndicated newspaper clients, focusing on domestic politics and policy. Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for commentary, 2007. “The week” columnist of the year, 2008.

2003-2015: Editorial writer. Write editorials on domestic policy and politics, including budget and taxes, health care, money and politics.

1999-2003: Deputy National Editor. Oversee staff coverage of campaign finance and lobbying and national politics; direct coverage of 2000 recount.

1986-1999: National Staff Reporter covering , Supreme Court, Justice Department, national politics, money and politics.

1984-1987: Metro staff reporter covering local development and legal issues. Wrote weekly column on law and lawyers. Covered “Year of the Spy” espionage cases.

EXTRACURRICULAR:

2017-Present: MSNBC/NBC contributor. Appear several times weekly on MSBC shows, including , Reports, Hardball, Last Word, and Meet the Press Daily.

Previously: Regular guest on ABC’s “This Week,” CBS “,” CNN, Frequent guest and moderator on panels, including Atlantic Festival, Aspen Ideas Festival, New Yorker Festival, Brookings Institution.

EDUCATION

1981-1984: Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, Harvard Law Review 1975-1979: Yale College, cum laude, with distinction in history

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