Emily Rauhala named The Washington Post’s Congress editor

Emily joins National to lead an all-star team of congressional reporters chronicling one of the nation’s most consequential political stories while also holding lawmakers to account and mapping Washington’s power centers. She brings to the Politics desk an eye for great stories and a reputation as a gifted wordsmith and quick study, as well as for being enormously collegial in working across teams — all attributes that will serve her well in this new role.

Emily returns to Washington after serving as Brussels bureau chief, leading The Post’s coverage of the European Union and NATO through Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. She chronicled how the war transformed European security, from the alliance’s eastern flank to the far north, and was part of the Post team that investigated Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive in 2023.

Before moving to Europe, she wrote about foreign policy from Washington, helping drive The Post’s reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, including an early investigation of China’s cover-up and accountability reporting on the World Health Organization’s response.

Emily previously spent more than a decade in Asia, charting China’s rise on the world stage and its authoritarian turn at home. She arrived in Hong Kong in 2007 with plans to stay three months, but dove into the story, reporting across East and Southeast Asia before moving to Beijing in 2013 and traveling to almost every province and territory to illuminate the people, places and trends shaping the world’s most populous country. She started as a reporter, editor and correspondent at Time Magazine, then, in 2015, joined The Post as a Beijing-based correspondent, writing about U.S.-China relations, migrant worker-poets and lonely grandpas. In 2017, she shared an Overseas Press Club award for a series about China’s Internet.

Please join us in congratulating Emily, who started her new role this week.