Matt Schudel

Across 34 years at The Washington Post, he reported on the King assassination, covered antiwar protests in D.C. and prepared lively obituaries for major figures.

Mr. Samuelson, shown in 2019, wrote three books, including 2008's “The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath,” which traced the gradual growth of inflation in the 1960s and '70s.

Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40

For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his classically conservative views.

He helped guide Pulitzer Prize-winning projects, including coverage of Russian election interference in 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Dan Eggen, a longtime Washington Post reporter and editor who worked on three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects and helped shape the newspaper's

Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America's greatest living jazz musician and whose musical eloquence and inventiveness

Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America's greatest living jazz musician and whose musical eloquence and inventiveness

She photographed everything from crime scenes to congressional hearings, winning journalism prizes while shattering a glass ceiling for women at the newspaper.

Cameras, lenses and lighting were all part of Margaret Thomas's tools as a photojournalist. But the technical side of taking pictures was perhaps the least challenging element of her work.