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About

Azi Paybarah is a national reporter at The Washington Post.

He covers campaigns and breaking politics news.

Azi has been delivering must-read scoops and insights throughout his two-decade career.

Before joining The Post in 2022, he reported on politics and breaking news for The New York Times. In 2021 he was part of a large team at The Times that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Coronavirus pandemic. In 2017 he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He began his career at The Queens Tribune in 2003.

The Archives:

WaPo: Where the 2024 candidates stand on elections, democracy and Jan. 6 (Aug. 23, 2023)

WaPo: Local journalists covering shootings share their pain on air (April 11, 2023)

WaPo: Who is Hakeem Jeffries? (Jan. 3, 2023)

WaPo: The talented Mr. Santos: A congressman-elect’s unraveling web of deception (Dec. 31, 2022)

WaPo: Key feature of GOP midterm ads: Half-truths and misleading claims (Nov. 2, 2022)

NYT: Texas Republicans Approve Far-Right Platform Declaring Biden’s Election Illegitimate (June 19, 2022)

NYT: Michigan’s Chaotic G.O.P. Primary for Governor: ‘It’s a Circus’ (June 17, 2022)

NYT: In More Than 100 G.O.P. Midterm Ads This Year: Guns, Guns, Guns (May 25, 2022)

NYT: ‘Ugh’: Life at Andrew Cuomo’s Hometown Newspaper (Aug. 7, 2021)

NYT: $10,000 Flute Left in Cab Nine Years Ago Is Finally Returned (April 22, 2021)

NYT: Where Giuliani Still Routinely Offers False Claims of Election Fraud (Jan. 24, 2021)

NYT: Marty, Longtime Mascot of Mount Washington Observatory, Dies (Nov. 10, 2020)

NYT: N.Y.C. Was Once a Bastion of G.O.P. Moderates. Then Trump Came Along. (Oct. 17, 2020)

NYT: Alaska Attorney General Resigns Over Texts to Female State Worker (Aug. 25, 2020)

NYT: Where New Yorkers Moved to Escape Coronavirus (May 16, 2020)

NYT: Top Latino Mayoral Hopeful in New York City Drops Out (Jan. 26, 2020)

NYT: If Trump Shoots Someone on 5th Ave., Does He Have Immunity? His Lawyer Says Yes (Oct. 23, 2019)

NYT: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Push Washington. Will Washington Push Back? (Nov. 7, 2018)

Politico NY: Giuliani: I surveilled mosques to ‘keep track of good ones and the bad ones’ (July 21, 2016)

Politico NY: Bratton assailed for embrace of 50-year-old Moynihan report (Sept. 1, 2015)

Politico NY: At private meeting, union head tells officers to use ‘extreme discretion’ (Dec. 18, 2014)

Politico NY: Spitzer urges a public ‘conversation’ about privacy from the media (Aug. 8, 2013)

Capital NY: Fred Dicker has a revelation about Andrew Cuomo's trustworthiness (April 22, 2013)

Capital NY: Andrew Cuomo’s favorite columnist is up in arms (Jan. 15, 2013)

NYO: When John Edwards Tried for a New York City Makeover, as a Lawyer (July 12, 2011)

WNYC: Bloomberg wants to 'restore' term limits (Oct. 25, 2010)

WNYC: Carl Paladino's Eight Days as Mr. Establishment (Sept. 20, 2010)

WNYC: Inside Paterson's Emails: Jolie, Imus and More (Sept. 7, 2010)

NYO: Driving David Paterson (Feb. 17, 2010)

NYO: Andrew Cuomo’s Maintenance Man (Feb. 2, 2010)

NYO: Does Kevin Sheekey Have Your Attention? (Jan. 22, 2008)

NYO: Bloomberg Now a Blank (June 19, 2007)

NY Sun: Council Member Calls Colleagues To Prevent White Candidate From Winning Seat (June 9, 2006)

Queens Tribune: Awning Fine Breather Awaits Mayor’s Signature (July 3, 2003)

 

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