Lynh Bui named deputy health and science editor at The Washington Post

Lynh will collaborate with our gifted science writers to capture the awe and wonder of exploration and experimentation, and to hold to account the researchers, government agencies and institutions whose work shapes the future even as they uncover secrets of our past. She will also contribute to coverage of health news, working closely with journalists who set the standard for excellence in health and science reporting and writing.

Lynh joins National from the Metro staff, where she has been an editor since 2020 and manages coverage of the federal courthouse in D.C. and the D.C. Circuit appellate court as well as Maryland’s police departments and courts. Colleagues praise her as a steady hand on breaking news, a gifted framer of complex work, a digital innovator and a compassionate manager of people.

Lynh has helmed coverage of some of the most urgent topics in the region. During the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, she was among the editors directing reporters on the ground and later spent three years leading coverage of the more than 1,000 prosecutions that followed. In continuing Metro’s robust partnership with National’s justice team, Lynh has helped run coverage of Donald Trump’s prosecution in D.C. and live coverage of other trials of national importance. Most recently, she was part of the team leading The Post’s coverage of the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore.

Lynh arrived at The Post in 2012 as one of the first American University fellows on Metro, earning a master’s degree at AU while covering Montgomery County schools. Her talents were immediately evident and, following her fellowship, Lynh was hired to cover police and courts on Metro, which she did with distinction for six years, proving herself as a dogged, compassionate reporter and generous colleague.

Lynh was part of the team that examined how 8-year-old Relisha Rudd disappeared from a D.C. homeless shelter in 2014. She reported extensively on the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore while anchoring The Post’s foray into augmented reality in covering officers’ trials. On her beat in Prince George’s County, she delivered exclusives and wrote immersive narratives. In 2017, she was one of the key reporters on the ground in Las Vegas chronicling the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

An Arizona native, Lynh previously worked at the Arizona Republic and earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications from the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University.

Please join us in welcoming Lynh to National. She starts her new assignment in September.