Lynh Bui named deputy health and science editor

Lynh will work with The Post’s talented science reporters to convey the excitement of discovery and inquiry, and challenge the scientific innovators, agencies and organizations, whose work defines the tomorrow while probing the past. 
 
Lynh will write with our talented science editors to explain exploration and experimentation, but also to challenge scientists, governments, and other institutions that are building the future even as they reveal secrets of the past. She will also help in the generation news about health, cooperate with journalists who define the trends for compassionate coverage of health and science topics. 
 
Lynh has been an editor at the Metro staff since 2020 where she oversees the federal courthouse in D. C. and the D. C. Circuit Appellate court besides, Maryland’s police forces, as well as the court, before she joined National. Peers commend her for her dependability on breaking news, her abiity to present complex works, novelty in digital media and her ability in handling people. 
 
Lynh has led the coverage of some of the greatest issues in the region or from the region. She was one of the editors overseeing the reporters on Jan. 6, 2021 and since has run the team covering the more than 1,000 prosecutions that ensued. When continuing Metro’s strong relationship with National’s justice team, Lynh has aided in covering the prosecution of Donald Trump in D. C. and other live trials of national significance. More recently, she was involved in the coverage team for the Key Bridge collapse that occurred in Baltimore, in The Post. 
 
Lynh joined The Post in 2012 as one of the first fellows from the American University on the Metro desk and was responsible for receiving master’s degree from the AU while covering the Montgomery County schools. Her strengths were quickly apparent and after her fellowship, Lynh was hired to work as Metro’s police and courts reporter and she excelled for six years during which she demonstrated determination, empathy, and teamwork as well as sharing wit others. 
 
Lynh was involved in the group which investigated the circumstances around the dissapearence of 8-year-old Relisha Rudd from a D. C homeless shelter in 2014. In its coverage of the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody in Baltimore, she anchored The Post’s first foray into using Augmented Reality in covering trials of the officers. What she was able to produce on her beat in Prince George’s County were exclusives and she wrote descriptive articles. Later in the year 2017, she was among the reporters on the scene reporting the shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas –the worst mass shooting in modern American history. 
 
Lynh is now an Arizona native, and she used be working for the Arizona Republic; she got her bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications at Walter Cronkite School in Arizona State University. 
 
It is our honor to introduce Lynh with National colleagues and friends as follows Welcome to National, Lynh. The woman begins a new job in September.