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55-year-old journalist Sally Bazbi became the first woman as the editor-in-chief of The Washington Post, this newspaper and AP said on Tuesday.

"Sally Bazby has an outstanding list of achievements and incredibly rich experience in the leadership of the International News Organization," said Ryan Executive Director Fred Ryan. According to him, she has unlimited energy and is devoted to journalism, which plays an important role in protecting American democracy.

Since 1988, Sally Bazbi has been working at the Associated Press, first by the reporter in Texas, the editor of the Middle East in Cairo, and then - the head of the Washington Bureau. In 2017, she became the editor of the agency. She relied on the development of digital storytelling and investigations, and in 2019 the Associated Press received the Pulitzer Prize for the investigation of atrocities during the Yemen war.

"The Washington Post is an institution with a rich journalistic heritage, which is at the forefront of digital media ... It will be an honor for me to lead this incredible group of journalists," said Sally Bazbi. She noted the merits of the newspaper’s team in the field of attracting a new reader audience. At the same time, Bazbi added that her previous position is "one of the best jobs in journalism."

According to Sally Bazbi, AP journalists are “one of the best people in the world are courageous and attentive to the facts.“ Working with them was a great honor and joy, ”she added.

“We regret that we lost Sally, but is very happy for her, because she takes the next step in her career. We look forward to when Sally will succeed in The Post,” the president and general director of AP Gary Proitt commented on the new appointment.

The native of Kansas Sally Bazbi will begin work on June 1 and will replace Marty Baron, who headed the newspaper since 2013 (after its purchase by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos), but at the end of February 2021 he retired at the age of 66. In the Associated Press, the duties of the chief editor will share the vice president and managing director Brian Carovilno and vice president David Scott, Interfax reports.