Hello, DMV. It’s Thursday, Feb. 5.
It’s me, Alisa Tang — former editor of the Post Local newsletter at the Washington Post — writing you from a different platform today because I was among more than 300 journalists laid off from the Post.
From July 2024 through yesterday, I authored the Post Local newsletter and dropped into your inbox weekday mornings with musings about nature and the collective vibe around the DMV — the nickname for the region that includes D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
How I’ve loved connecting with all of you and building our community. I wrote about birds and crows. You shared your photos of hawks and owls. I wrote about walking gingerly across the slippery “snowcrete” after our recent winter storm. You shared your photos of incredible igloos.
I am launching this newsletter today in part because I didn’t get a chance in Post Local to say goodbye. I wanted to thank you because we built Post Local together. It gave you and me both comfort, joy and community.
More importantly, I want to invite you to join me as I move forward, one foot in front of the other. I’ll offer you my daily dose of the DMV. I’ll write about places to go, things to do or simply a few observations about our shared experience. I invite you to email me to share your photos and anecdotes from across the region. And we’ll meet here in your inbox and in person around town.
I’m still in shock but also at peace, relieved … and excited to be here with you.
If you subscribed to Post Local for the news, my Daily Dose will be something different; so feel free to unsubscribe. No hard feelings.
Otherwise, please stick with me, share widely with your friends and bear with me as I build this. We’re gonna have fun.
(Landry Dunand)
