Zach Goldfarb has been named the new editor of a Washington Post editorial department that combines technology, business, climate and health and science into a new team focused on forces shaping the future.
Zach Goldfarb will helm the new department that we are now calling Futures, combining several areas of coverage with the aim of helping readers, listeners and viewers understand and act on major forces transforming the 21st century.
Futures will be a source of new beats, storytelling innovations and initiatives, and experiments that connect our journalism with a wider audience, exploring how profound shifts in these areas will affect people’s work, security, health and ability to serve as informed citizens in an ever more complex world.
A two-decade Post veteran, Zach was the founding editor of the Climate & Environment department, leading a team that created a new engine of journalistic impact and audience growth for The Post. Climate published memorable projects such as “The Human Limit,” which explored the impact of climate change on human health, and “The Drowning South,” an investigation into sea-level rise’s sudden acceleration in the southern U.S. With partners across the newsroom, the team produced leading coverage of Hurricane Helene and the L.A. wildfires. It launched a variety of new features including the Climate Coach column and the Climate Lab vertical.
Before Climate, Zach served as deputy business editor, helping oversee our coverage of business, technology and economics. In that role, he oversaw coverage of several major storylines during the first Trump administration and the Biden administration, including big economic debates and the pandemic response, and helped lead significant expansions in technology coverage and investigative reporting. The Business department won three Gerald Loeb Awards during his time, among other honors. Zach also served as policy editor for two years, overseeing the economics team and Wonkblog, a popular digital initiative.
As a reporter, Zach covered politics, economics and technology. He was a lead reporter on the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, and served for several years as an economics reporter and then a White House correspondent during the Obama administration. Zach joined The Post as a researcher on the politics staff. He is a graduate of Princeton University with a bachelor’s in public policy.
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