As news organizations gear up to cover President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, The Atlantic is going big to cover the story.

The magazine, which in recent years has become a success in the realm of digital subscriptions, is preparing to hire roughly a dozen new reporters and editors to beef up its politics coverage, a spokesperson for The Atlantic said.

To bolster its Washington staff, The Atlantic has turned to a crosstown rival.

Ashley Parker, a senior national political correspondent for The Washington Post, and Michael Scherer, a national political reporter for the Post, will join a formidable political team at The Atlantic that includes Elaina Plott Calabro, McKay Coppins and Mark Leibovich.

The magazine has been in discussions to hire additional Washington Post journalists, two people with knowledge of the talks said.

“We believe in accountability journalism,” said Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief. “We want to cover the (new) administration rigorously.”

The hires are a sign of increased ambition at The Atlantic, which is controlled by Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire investor.

In March, the company announced that it had crossed 1 million subscribers and had become profitable, a milestone. The organization has added roughly 100,000 subscribers since then, one of the people said, and has increased its staff in recent years. About 350 employees now work at The Atlantic, in its newsroom and on its business staff.

The departures from the Post add to months of turmoil at the paper, starting in June when Will Lewis, the paper’s CEO, pursued a reorganization that led to the exit of the paper’s top editor, Sally Buzbee, and that has rankled many in the newsroom.

Still, the Post continues to hire in key areas and is retooling its politics staff to cover the Trump administration and announced in December that a new division of the company, WP Ventures, would focus on experimental new journalism.