MSNBC hires Politico’s Reddy to be DC bureau chief

MSNBC has hired Politico senior managing editor Sudeep Reddy to be its first Washington bureau chief, reports Michael Grynbaum of The New York Times.

Reddy has been overseeing coverage and strategy for policy news across Politico.

Reddy previously spent a decade in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, where he was an economics editor directing coverage of U.S. and international economic news. He joined the Journal in 2007 as a U.S. economics reporter covering the Federal Reserve and financial crisis and later served as the Journal’s international economics correspondent, covering developments across the global economy, White House, Treasury Department, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, G-7 and G-20.

He arrived in the capital as a Washington correspondent at The Dallas Morning News, covering the intersection of business and politics. Earlier, he covered the energy industry in Texas and business issues before the Texas Legislature in Austin.

Reddy has received numerous awards for his work in print and online. The Society of American Business Editors and Writers recognized him for coverage of the economy on WSJ.com’s Real Time Economics blog. He won awards from the Associated Press Managing Editors of Texas for best business reporting and best deadline writing.

He received the National Press Foundation’s Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy Writing for coverage of Texas’s electricity grid operator that led to convictions of several officials on organized crime charges. He also received the national print media award from the National Association of Consumer Advocates for stories about credit scoring.

Reddy received a degree in bioethics and history from Brown University, where he was executive editor of The Brown Daily Herald. He is on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, teaching a course on the digital journalism landscape.