Announcement from Executive Local Editor Jamie Stockwell and Deputy Local Editors Maria Glod and Matt Zapotosky:
After more than four years of sharp, robust reporting about D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, her administration and the 13-member D.C. Council, Michael Brice-Saddler is taking on a new assignment reporting on how the city’s policies are reverberating outside the halls of the Wilson Building and across the District’s eight wards.
In many ways, this is the perfect beat for Michael, whose City Hall coverage over the years has often focused on the people most affected by its ordinances, laws and initiatives, such as a story earlier this year that examined how a cash-transfer pilot program had helped more than 100 new and expecting low-income mothers.
Michael’s mission will be to unearth the impact of city policies from the point of view of communities and their residents, holding the city and its leaders accountable from the outside in. An example of how he has already done this can be found in a recent story about neighborhood commissioners, a civic initiative that has struggled in recent years. Michael will also continue to draw on his City Hall expertise to help us land scoops and cover major news developments.
Michael joined the local desk in the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was reshaping the District and amid a regional and national reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism. Over the years, he has written about city budgets and City Hall scandals, including administration officials fired over assault accusations and stealing city funds, the political ramifications of busing migrants from Texas to Washington, recall campaigns, the threat of two sports teams moving to Virginia and, more recently, has focused attention on chronicling Bowser’s post-pandemic bid to fix D.C.’s ailing downtown.
Michael joined The Post as a summer intern on the Local desk in 2018, and prior to assuming the City Hall beat, he spent 18 months on the General Assignment desk, where he anchored live coverage about covid and wrote about the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the hope among protesters for police reform following the killing of George Floyd.
Michael graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in journalism. He is a Baltimore native with a passion for basketball, especially the Los Angeles Lakers.
Please join us in congratulating Michael on his new assignment, which he begins immediately.
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