Arizona, with all its sprawl, diversity, resource challenges and eccentricities, will be one of the political and economic centers of the journalism world this election year and far beyond. To lead coverage of this rapidly evolving state, we\u2019re pleased to announce that Reis Thebault will be our next Phoenix correspondent, covering the Southwest and collaborating closely with the broader West coverage team.<\/p>\n
Reis joins us from The Washington Post, where he\u2019s been a reporter for nearly eight years. He was most recently the West Coast correspondent, documenting the vast region\u2019s contradictions, controversies and characters from his home base in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During his time on the beat, Reis carved out a specialty in creative story forms, collaborating often with visual journalists on a wide range of pieces, from the battle to remake America\u2019s streets<\/a> to the groundbreaking kayak journey<\/a> of 15 Indigenous teenagers. He helped lead The Post\u2019s coverage of the Maui wildfires, from the disaster\u2019s earliest days<\/a> to its complex recovery<\/a>. And when flames came for Los Angeles in early 2025, he spent months covering the catastrophe<\/a> and its aftermath<\/a> as it played out in his backyard.\u00a0<\/p>\n Between calamities, Reis\u2019s stories were varied and colorful. He wrote about California\u2019s imperiled super bloom<\/a> and an ancient lake<\/a> that reappeared in the most improbable of places. He covered the plight of an out-of-work actor<\/a> turned housekeeper and the struggles of homeless college students<\/a>. He wrote of a record-breaking lightbulb<\/a> and the resurgent popularity of VHS tapes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Before moving to California, Reis was on The Post\u2019s general assignment team, where he covered a barrage of breaking news and trending stories. He joined The Post as an intern, covered D.C. city hall for the metro desk, helped launch a national politics newsletter and served a short stint in the Brussels bureau in 2022.<\/p>\n Reis received his bachelor\u2019s degree from Miami University, a public college in rural Ohio, and his master\u2019s degree from University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n Please join us in welcoming him to the team.<\/p>\n \u2014Nestor and Jonathan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona, with all its sprawl, diversity, resource challenges and eccentricities, will be one of the political and economic…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-513385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115888568700532019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}