Washington Post investigations editor Jeff Leen, deputy investigations editor David Fallis, and editor of the rapid-response investigative team Eric Rich sent out the following announcement:
Beth Reinhard is joining us from The Wall Street Journal, where she has covered national politics and more recently criminal justice. In February, Beth’s reporting raised questions about whether Neil Gorsuch, then a Supreme Court nominee, had overstated his pro bono work at Harvard Law School. She covered the early presidential frontrunner, Jeb Bush, for 14 months, uncovering the behind-the-scenes workings of his super PAC as it raised record sums of money.
Beth worked for many years at her hometown paper, The Miami Herald, where she co-wrote a series about developers exploiting tax breaks for farmers by grazing cows on land awaiting construction. She covered the contested 2000 presidential election in Florida and participated in the Herald’s own statewide ballot recount. As the statewide political reporter, Beth broke stories about legislative leaders, including then-Senate candidate Marco Rubio, using American Express cards issued by the Florida Republican Party for personal expenses.
Beth moved to Washington in 2011 to work for National Journal magazine, where her cover stories included a view of the 2012 campaign from an economically depressed Ohio county and a narrative about the real-life consequences of a late-term abortion ban in Arkansas. She has also worked at the Palm Beach Post in Florida, and the Home News in New Brunswick, N.J. Beth starts Aug. 21.
