Laura Wagner

New York

Media Reporter

Education: Georgetown University, BA in government

Laura Wagner is a reporter at The Washington Post covering the changing digital media industry. She previously worked at Defector, where she wrote about media, sports and labor. Before that, she covered media and business at Vice. She has also written for Slate and NPR, and her work has been published by Columbia Journalism Review. She lives in New York.
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For the reporters of Hell Gate, heaven is covering Mayor Eric Adams

Hell Gate, a two-year-old news start-up, is chronicling and skewering the administration of Mayor Eric Adams, and covering New York like alt-weeklies used to.

October 12, 2024

The Washington Post cuts 25 percent of tech arm, Arc XP

In strategy shift, The Washington Post laid off 54 employees from Arc XP, which makes and sells publishing software to other media brands.

September 23, 2024
The Washington Post headquarters on K Street NW.

Jon Lovett has no regrets about ‘Survivor’ flameout

The “Pod Save America” host’s journey ended almost as soon as it began.

September 19, 2024
Jon Lovett, second from right, in the “Survivor” season premiere.

Photographers say Harris campaign has reduced their access

In a letter, the White House News Photographers Association claims the Harris campaign hasn’t made room for the same number of photographers who traveled with the president.

September 12, 2024
Members of the media photograph Vice President Kamala Harris during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 22.

Sarah Palin wins bid for new defamation trial against New York Times

Sarah Palin will get a new trial in her defamation suit against the New York Times and former opinion editor James Bennet, an appeals court ruled.

August 28, 2024
Sarah Palin attends the Conservative Political Action Conference in Fort Washington, Md., in March 2023.

A reporter detailed a tennis star’s alleged abuse. Now he’s paying for it.

Ben Rothenberg was considered one of the nation’s best tennis writers. Then he got sued by Alexander Zverev, one of the world’s top tennis players.

August 27, 2024
Rothenberg was “determined to tell stories that hadn’t been told, things about the sport that publications wouldn’t normally [cover],” a colleague said.

‘A magazine made by humans’: Atlantic writers push back on AI

Writers for the Atlantic are raising complaints about a deal with OpenAI and say staffers “must have a voice” in how artificial intelligence affects their work.

August 2, 2024
A rack of magazines, including the Atlantic, on display in a bookstore in San Francisco.

How a school district took its spat with a local TV station to the FCC

A Loudoun County official claims WJLA’s reporting shows a ‘dishonest’ slant. Station owner Sinclair calls it an attempt to ‘shut down critical news coverage.’

July 30, 2024
Park View High School in Sterling, Va., is the subject of one of the news stories that inspired an FCC complaint from the Loudoun County school system. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)

Hulk Hogan rips off his shirt, endorses Trump at the RNC

Hulk Hogan waved the American flag during his 1980s pro wrestling heyday. But his biggest political role came in the landmark lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker.

July 19, 2024

A lifelong media maven grapples with the misinformation crisis

In his new book, Steven Brill points to a flood of bad information as the culprit behind the rise of polarization.

June 30, 2024