[3] Before joining the Post, Buzbee worked at the Associated Press for more than three decades,[4] serving as executive editor and senior vice president for the last four-and-a-half years of her tenure.

She lived in the Bay Area and the suburbs of Dallas before graduating from high school in Olathe, Kansas.

[4] When Buzbee became executive editor of The Washington Post on June 1, 2021, she was the paper's first female editor-in-chief.

[4] In a November 2021 interview with Kara Swisher, Buzbee said the journalistic independence of The Washington Post from its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos was "never in question at any point" during her hiring process.

[7] After Sir William Lewis became the CEO and publisher in January 2024, he pushed Buzbee to not run unflattering stories about him.