Politico hires two new NY editors

Julia Marsh and Joe Spector will be joining Politico as New York editors.

Marsh was recently City Hall bureau chief at The New York Post. Before that, she was a reporter at The Post.

She was also a contributor at The Christian Science Monitor and has covered foreign relations and domestic politics for The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper.

She has also edited for The Manhattan Times and The Huffington Post. She has also reported for the Columbia News Service.

Marsh has a B.A. from Colorado College and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University – Graduate School of Journalism.

Spector was recently the government and politics editor for the USA Today Network’s Atlantic Group, overseeing coverage in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. He has also served as New York state editor and Albany bureau chief and has covered New York politics and government since 2002, first as the political reporter for the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester and since 2007 at the state Capitol in Albany.