Bloomberg Opinion has hired Mary Ellen Klas as a columnist.
She will start in November.
Klas is the Capitol bureau chief for the Miami Herald, where she covers government and politics and focuses on investigative and accountability reporting. The Herald’s statehouse bureau merged with the Tampa Bay Times in November 2008.
She was part of a Miami Herald team awarded a 2023 Polk Award for political reporting for uncovering the secrecy and cost of the migrant relocation flights authorized by Gov. Ron DeSantis and documenting their political impact. In 2022, she was among the Miami Herald newsroom team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for the collapse of Champlain Towers North in Surfside.
During the 2018-19 academic year, Klas was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to study at Harvard University and was named the 2019 Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism. She examined the relationship between declining journalism resources and corruption in state and local government.
She her career as a business reporter for the Palm Beach Post and moved to Tallahassee as the Post’s Capitol bureau chief. She was also Tallahassee Editor for Florida Trend magazine.
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