Heather Long is an economic columnist at The Washington Post and winner of the 2024 Gerald Loeb Award for commentary. She was formerly a member of the editorial board and The Post's lead economics reporter. In 2020, she played a key role in coining the "K-shaped recovery" and identifying that this was the most unequal recession in modern U.S. history. In 2021, she was the first to recognize the "Great Re-assessment of Work" taking place with many Americans wanting something very different in their careers after the pandemic. Heather appears frequently on TV and radio programs including MSNBC, CNN, BBC, CBSN, PBS, C-SPAN, The Takeaway, etc. She is a regular contributor to Marketplace Radio. Before joining The Washington Post, Heather was an editor at CNN in charge of the markets and economy team, and a columnist and deputy editor at The Patriot-News when it won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. Heather holds a master's degree in financial economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.