The Washington Post on Instagram
In my current role as a design editor at The Washington Post, I oversee the design of The Post’s social accounts by working closely with a team of designers to adapt The Post’s brand and content for social. I lead the visual strategy for our main news account, @washingtonpost, as well as our sub-brand accounts: @postclimate, @poststyle and @coveringpolitics.
Below is a small sampling of design work from our social accounts, created by designers on our social team.
In my day-to-day work, I collaborate with designers, social editors, photo editors and video producers to produce thoughtfully curated off-platform experiences. As our leader for off-platform visual strategy, I assist in planning coverage for large projects and breaking news, and I conduct trainings for designers and social editors on design tools, workflows and data-informed best practices for audience engagement. Additionally, I oversee the creation and maintenance of all our social templates, as well as updates to our in-house social card generator tool.
In 2024, our Instagram won a Webby award for best social (news and politics), our fourth win in five years. We also won a gold medal for social channel design from the Society of Publication Designers, and our social design was awarded several individual awards of excellence and portfolio wins in the annual Society for News Design competition. In 2025, all four of the accounts I edit won bronze medals at SND, and my own portfolio won an award of excellence.
In addition to editing, I have also designed hundreds of posts myself. Below are some of my some examples of my social design work.