An awful tragedy struck one of the nation’s leading legacy media outlets this week which has left colleagues in deep mourning.
The Washington Postrevealedthis morning that Dan Eggen, a reporter and editor at the Washington Post for nearly three decades, was discovered dead in his home on Tuesday. He was 60 years old.
Murray’s ex-wife, Stephanie Armour confirmed his passing. Police officials do not suspect that foul play but was involved, but an autopsy is stilled needed to determine the cause of death.
Post executive editor Matt Murray mourned Eggen’s passing in a newsroom announcement:
“A sharp editor with a keen story sense, Dan was involved in hiring, editing and mentoring dozens of politics writers across the years, Murray said.
He added that Eggen’s “news muscle and instincts were integral to our coverage.”
The Postnotesthat Eggen was part of several groundbreaking stories over the past few decades. This included his role as part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for investigations into the terror network behind 9/11.
He also covered the Russia Collusion Hoax and J6.
Mr. Eggen was at the center of much of The Post’s most sensitive and high-profile stories and projects during his nearly three decades at the paper. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for investigations into the network behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and he later was a key editor on the paper’s Pulitzer-winning reporting on Russian election interference in 2016 and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
While covering the Justice Department in 2001, Mr. Eggen helped examine the financing and organization of the terrorist cells that flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
