Washington Post fired Karen Attiah over social-media posts in 2025; an arbitrator has now ordered her reinstated with full back pay

Karen Attiah, a former Washington Post opinion writer and the newspaper's founding global opinions editor, was fired on September 11, 2025, one day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a public appearance at Utah Valley University. The Post's termination letter accused Attiah of gross misconduct, saying her social-media comments about Kirk's death violated the newspaper's social-media policies, harmed the organisation's integrity and potentially endangered staff.

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