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Article: Assistant Managing Editor Named;Veteran Reporter, Editor Will Oversee Post's National Coverage
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- The Washington Post
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- July 19, 1990
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Karen DeYoung, national editor of The Washington Post, has been
named assistant managing editor for national news. She will assume
the post in September.
She will replace Robert G. Kaiser, who has been named deputy
managing editor.
DeYoung, 41, joined The Post in 1975 as a Metro reporter covering
Prince George's County. Two years later she became the paper's Latin
American bureau chief, first in Buenos Aires and then in Mexico City.
DeYoung served as deputy foreign editor and then foreign editor in
Washington from 1980 until 1985, when she again went overseas as The
Post's London bureau chief. She become national editor in January
1989.
"Her outstanding performance in these many ...