Mina Haq

Mina Haq is a consultant with PEN America’s journalism and disinformation program. She came to PEN after six years at The Washington Post, where she worked as a curation editor on the apps and homepage team during some of the defining stories of the past decade, such as the coronavirus pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the curation team, she helped with the launch of The Post’s flagship morning briefing, The 7, wrote breaking news alerts and built special collections for events such as the Summer Olympics. During her time on The Post’s copy desk, she edited breaking news and investigative pieces while training fellow editors on headline-writing and search engine optimization. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in journalism.