The journalist will oversee coverage of national politics, the federal government, national security, the judiciary, immigration, race, health and science Peter Spiegel (Photo courtesy of Washington Post) Financial Times journalist Peter Spiegel will join the Washington Post as a managing editor starting Feb. 24. Spiegel, who will join the paper’s current managing editors Liz Seymour and Scott Vance and will report to executive editor Matt Murray, will oversee its national and local newsroom