Cyril T. Zaneski, E&E News executive editor, sent out the following to subscribers on Friday:
After 21 years of editing E&E News, I’m hitting the trail. Before I go, I want to thank you, dear subscribers, for the overwhelming support you’ve given us.
Because of you, our newsroom has boomed — from a dozen reporters when I arrived in 2005 to 70 or so journalists who were publishing five editions a day when POLITICO bought us at the end of 2020.
You spurred our growth from a meek trade publication covering in-the-weeds congressional subcommittee hearings and regulatory minutiae to a paywalled powerhouse in the energy and environment space. Your support enabled us to send our journalists across the country to see how Washington policy debates were affecting people and natural resources. It backed our reporters who traveled to Bangladesh, Haiti, China, Pakistan, India, Africa, the Himalayas, the Arctic.
We punched above our weight — and with our mix of features and personality profiles, managed to make policy journalism entertaining.
Our newsroom is now fully absorbed into POLITICO. The E&E News contingent is smaller but still muscular and in good hands. My job here is done. It’s time for me to climb another mountain.
As I sign off, I leave you with a sampler of just a few of my favorite E&E News stories.
Goodbye, everybody.
