A message from Martine
Post Reports
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🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Our beloved senior host, Martine Powers, is stepping away from the microphone for a bit to cover the White House and then take on a longer-term assignment. Tune in to today’s bonus episode to hear more, and get to know our guest co-host for the next few months, Colby Itkowitz.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Colby. Happy Saturday. Oh, it's Saturday. Hello. Thank you for being here on your weekend. I don't know if you remember this, but many moons ago, we used to sit catty corner from each other up on the seventh floor in Metro, and we were basically desk buddies. Of course I remember because you were |
| 0:22.4 | covering what transportation at the time? I was. And I was anchoring our inspired life blog. Yes. |
| 0:27.9 | Yeah. I remember. Yeah. And I distinctly remember when you got to the post because we have a |
| 0:32.3 | mutual friend and all I heard for like the weeks until you got here was like, oh, okay, wait till you meet |
| 0:36.9 | Martin. Wait till you meet Martin. She's the best. So, yeah. It was so long ago and I remember for like the weeks until you got here was like, oh, okay, wait till you meet Martine, wait till you meet Martin, she's the best. |
| 0:39.3 | So, yeah. |
| 0:39.8 | That was so long ago, and I remember you were a very kind welcoming deskmate and that I had a lot |
| 0:43.8 | of dumb questions about like, where is the bathroom? |
| 0:47.9 | And you're very, very kind to show me around and show me the ropes here. |
| 0:53.1 | So the reason we are chatting today, folks may have heard on a couple earlier episodes this week of Post reports, that I have some exciting news of things that are coming up for me. |
| 1:04.6 | I am going to be reporting on our White House team here at the Post for a few months this spring. And then at the |
| 1:12.3 | beginning part of the summer, I am going to be going on parental leave, which is another big thing. |
| 1:18.0 | And that means that I won't be on post reports for a little while. But luckily, we have |
| 1:24.2 | Colby here, who is going to be stepping in to co-host along with Alahe Azadi and will be keeping my seat warm while I'm away. |
| 1:33.4 | Well, I'm very excited both to take over this role, but also for you. |
| 1:37.8 | Like, you're going to do amazing covering the White House, and then you're going to be the most incredible mom. |
| 1:42.6 | So you have a lot of exciting things ahead. |
| 1:45.5 | As my mom says, from your lips to God's ears. |
| 1:48.8 | So I wanted to sit down with you today to just give listeners a chance to get to know you a little bit more, who you are, |
| 1:56.1 | and the job that you've been doing or jobs, you've covered a lot of things here at the Post, before you have now embarked on this time with the podcast team. |
| 2:06.4 | Yeah, I've been here 11 years this week. |
| 2:09.5 | I've covered a lot of different things here at the Washington Post. |
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