The Washington Post named Sally Buzbee as its new executive editor, appointing a longtime Associated Press journalist — and the first woman — to lead its growing newsroom.

Buzbee has been executive editor and senior vice-president of the Associated Press since 2017. Before that, she served as the news agency’s Washington bureau chief from 2010 to 2016. She had also been the AP’s Middle East regional editor...

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