Q&A: Elisabeth Bumiller Reflects on Her Tenure as DC Bureau Chief at the Times
Elisabeth Bumiller has led the New York Times’ coverage of Washington through a decade-long political hurricane. She is the second-longest-serving DC bureau chief in the paper’s history, taking over in September 2015 under President Obama, before covering the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden and, now, the transition to a second Trump term. When that term starts, though, she’ll no longer be in post: at the end of this year, she will pass the torch to Richard Stevenson, currently her deputy. She is returning to her true love: reporting. “I told them it doesn’t matter who is president, I want to step down and go back to writing and reporting,” Bumiller told me recently, of a pre-election conversation she had with her bosses.
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