CNN has hired Ben Pershing as a supervising editor in Washington.
He previously was politics editor at The Wall Street Journal.
Before the Journal, Pershing previously served as editor of National Journal. Pershing served for six years as a staff writer at The Washington Post. He covered Congress for the national staff, anchoring a popular blog and a weekly column on Capitol Hill, and has covered high-profile Senate and governor races in Virginia.
He got his start in Washington with a decade at Roll Call, both as reporter and editor.
A Los Angeles native, he is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
