Charity Brown is deputy editor of Newsroom Product and Digital News Projects at The Washington Post. Brown joined The Post as a research and reporting assistant on the Financial desk helping compile the Post 200, a list of the region’s top companies, and assisting with personal finance and the Great Recession reporting. She then moved to National as a digital editor, where she contributed to coverage of the global epidemics and the 2017 solar eclipse. As deputy editor, Brown works with departments across the company — including engineering, product, legal, finance, customer care, information security, advertising, communications and human resources — to help find, create, cultivate and update software to improve newsroom workflow and provide a better reader experience.