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Jim Brady was named executive editor of washingtonpost.com in November 2004. Prior to his appointment, Brady served as a consultant for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, focusing primarily on product development and strategy.
This is Brady's second stint at washingtonpost.com. He served as sports editor and assistant managing editor for news from 1995 to 1999. Brady was on staff for the site's Web launch in June 1996, and helped coordinate the site's coverage of the Clinton impeachment proceedings.
After leaving washingtonpost.com in 1999, Brady spent more than four years at America Online, serving as Group Programming Director, News & Sports; Executive Director, Editorial Operations; and Vice President, Production & Operations. During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of the service's coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.
Prior to his first stint at washingtonpost.com, Brady was as a sportswriter at The Washington Post from 1987 to 1995. During his career, Brady has also served as the Washington sports correspondent for UPI, interned as a sportswriter at Newsday and worked as a researcher for NBC during the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.
Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism from The American University in 1989.
Born in Queens, N.Y. and raised in Huntington, N.Y., Brady now lives with his wife, Joan, in Great Falls, Va.
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