Paul Farhi

Washington, D.C.

Media reporter

Education: University of California at Los Angeles, BA in communications studies

Paul Farhi has been a media reporter at The Washington Post since 2010. Prior to that, he was a financial reporter, a political reporter and a Style reporter.
Latest from Paul Farhi

Who is Francesca Street, and why is everyone reading her?

The 29-year-old CNN reporter, who writes about love and romance, was one of 2023′s most popular reporters.

December 28, 2023

Israel protest letters have grabbed headlines. But how real are they?

The buzz around letters purportedly signed by White House and Capitol Hill interns don’t actually include signatures, leading to questions about their origin.

December 15, 2023
Demonstrators gather Dec. 2 in front of the White House during a rally in support of Palestinians.

John Kirby becomes a commanding presence in the briefing room

Retired rear admiral and National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has stepped in at the White House to keep Biden’s Gaza and Ukraine messaging clear.

December 11, 2023

GOP senators blast Voice of America for Hamas ‘militants’ terminology

GOP senators call out Voice of America for its guidance on describing Hamas and its Oct. 7 rampage.

November 29, 2023
Voice of America, while editorially independent, is funded by the U.S. government.

In Alabama, another small-town paper hit in ‘open season’ on free press

It’s an increasingly familiar drama: Local authorities go after journalists and publishers of small papers, which find themselves on the First Amendment’s front lines.

November 27, 2023

The Post publishes photos from mass shootings and draws mixed reaction

Washington Post photos of Uvalde, Parkland, other mass shootings broke unwritten media rules. Some call the images traumatic. Others hope they’ll jolt the public.

November 16, 2023
Authorities retrieve evidence markers at the scene of an August 2019 mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.

‘Are you sitting down?’ The windfall that transformed NPR 20 years ago.

In 2003, McDonald’s heiress Joan B. Kroc bequeathed more than $200 million to NPR. This is the impact of the record-breaking gift over the past 20 years.

November 6, 2023

Local journalists arrested in small Alabama town for grand jury story

Press freedom advocates are raising the alarm that the arrests of the Atmore News’s publisher and reporter are unconstitutional

November 1, 2023

The media navigates a war of words for reporting on Gaza and Israel

The news media is asking itself: “Terrorists” or “militants”? “Invasion” or “incursion”?

October 20, 2023
The New York headquarters of the Associated Press in 2018.

Trump’s violent rhetoric is getting muted coverage by the news media

After eight years of Trump in politics, is a “banality of crazy” setting in?

October 5, 2023