Karen Attiah

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Karen Attiah (born August 12, 1986) is an American writer, commentator, and editor, formerly employed by The Washington Post. Hired in 2014, she was the founding editor in 2016 for its Global Opinions section, and was elevated to Opinions columnist in 2021. She was fired by the Post in 2025 in response to her social media comments referencing Charlie Kirk in the aftermath of his assassination. This firing was later overturned in arbitration. Attiah had recruited Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi for the Post's Global Opinions section, and her journalistic responses once he went missing on October 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, led to her to be named 2019 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. She and her colleague David Ignatius also received the 2019 George Polk Award in Journalism for their work surrounding Khashoggi's assassination.

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