The Washington Post’s esteemed senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan announced Sunday that she has accepted a buyout offer.

The Princeton University graduate has worked for the media company on two occasios during her highly-regarded career. Her most recent go-round started in June of 2014, when she joined The Washington Post as fashion critic and then took on the role of senior critic-at-large in September of 2020.

Prior to that, Givhan had a two-year stint at Newsweek as special correspondent for style and culture. The journalist’s earlier run at The Washington Post started in 1995 and ran through 2009 as fashion editor. An insightful and analytical voice, Givhan elevated fashion coverage to new heights and broader audiences by winning a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2006. Not afraid to take to task designers or to call out shortcomings in the fashion industry, Givhan’s writing commands attention beyond its borders to the greater world at large.

She is among the 30-plus staffers, who have accepted buyouts from the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper and media company. Givhan, who could not be reached immediately for comment Sunday, announced her decision on social media, explaining that those, who had been with the company for more than 10 years, were recently offered buyouts. Having never been eligible “for such a thing,” Givhan said she considered it. “(It was for a fair amount of $$.) I agonized about it. I fretted. I procrastinated until the last possible moment. I considered my needs, my desires, my beliefs,” she posted. “A creature of deadline to the end. And I decided to take it.” Afterwards, she “needed to quietly sit with her decision. Because I love The Post. It’s where I grew up as a journalist,” she wrote.

Her post continued, “I am a believer in the importance of institutions, of legacy media and mainstream media. There’s still a lot to be said and I’m just self-centered enough to believe I’m someone, who needs to be heard. So I’m not done.”

She noted, “Democracy definitely dies in darkness. It is greatly wounded by silence.”

Having released “Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh,” Givhan said she has book tour stops on her calendar in New York City, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Dallas, Milan and Chicago. There is also a guest bathroom renovation to tend to. “And then, yea…onward. More soon ❤️❤️“

Based in the Baltimore area, the bespectacled and in-depth writer earned a Master of Arts in journalism at University of Michigan.

Another style setter at The Washington Post, Ann Hornaday is also among its 2025 departures. As well as The Reliable Source’s Helena Andrews-Dyer and fact checked Glenn Kessler, according to a running tally that is being kept on “X” by Vincent Morris, a media observer. The exodus, he posted, leaves The Washington Post publisher Will Lewis with “a youthful, but drastically inexperienced paper.”

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