Washington Business Journal editor Doug Fruehling sent out the following announcement to his staff on Monday:
Hi all –
Please welcome Carten Cordell, our new FedBiz reporter who started today. Carten joins us from FedScoop, where he was senior technology reporter covering federal agency acquisition, IT and cybersecurity issues. Before that, he was a senior staff reporter at Federal Times, where he worked with Jill Aitoro.
He also was online editor at Northern Virginia Magazine, an investigative reporter at Watchdog.org and copy editor/reporter at the Marietta Daily Journal in Georgia.
He has bachelor’s degrees in both history and journalism from Auburn University in Alabama and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern.
Carten and his wife, Kate, live in Falls Church and have two boys, including a new arrival in January.