Dan Froomkin

Dan Froomkin writes washingtonpost.com’s “White House Briefing” column, a daily romp through the day's White House-related items from newspaper, magazine and broadcast Web sites, Weblogs and elsewhere. He is also deputy editor of NiemanWatchdog.org, a new Web site from Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism which seeks to encourage more informed reporting by soliciting probing questions from experts.

Dan joined WashingtonPost.com in 1997 as senior producer for politics, writing political special reports and eventually running the site’s impeachment coverage. In 1999, he became metro editor, coordinating local coverage. He was named editor in 2000 and served three years as the second-in-command of the site’s editorial operations.

Prior to washingtonpost.com, Dan spent 10 years as a daily newspaper reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, the Miami Herald and the Orange County Register. In 1995, he was awarded a Michigan Journalism Fellowship. In 1996, he served as editor of new media for Education Week, launching Education Week on the Web. Dan has also taught journalism at The American University Graduate School of Communication and at The Poynter Institute.

Dan grew up in Washington, D.C., and holds a bachelor of arts from Yale University.