Marisa Bellack named Climate Solutions Editor
We’re very pleased to announce that Marisa Bellack, an accomplished and highly creative editor in International, will become our new Climate Solutions editor.
In this critical role, Marisa will oversee our popular Climate Solutions vertical, the Climate Coach column and other innovative climate journalism. She will help us experiment with visual-first storytelling and journalism that answers the most pressing questions our audience has about our changing planet.
Marisa is an 18-year veteran of The Post who has led ambitious reporting and writing throughout the organization, always with an eye to the type of vivid storytelling that will engage readers. In her latest post as Europe editor, she has overseen key storylines including Brexit, the response to covid and the rise of nationalist parties. She also has already played a regular role in Post climate coverage. She ran a team of 12 reporters at COP26 in Glasgow. She has guided coverage of extreme weather in Europe-- heat waves, floods, forest fires and snowless ski resorts. She has overseen enterprise on floating wind, wave power, mass timber, peat restoration, climate pressures on the Baltic Sea, climate threats to historic sites, the flood barriers of Venice, climate-friendly whisky, sunburned grapes and the impact of drought on risotto.
Before her current role, Marisa served as deputy editor of the Sunday Outlook section and the digital editor for Opinions. She edited Carlos Lozada’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book criticism. She has also been cited in work that won a George Polk Award, a National Press Photographers Association award and prizes from the Society of News Design.
A Bethesda native, Marisa was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and earned master’s degrees at the London School of Economics and Harvard’s Kennedy School.
She’ll start in her new role on March 10. Please congratulate her.