Politico has hired Felicia Schwartz to cover international security, defense and trade.
She will start next month.
She has been a U.S. foreign affairs and defense correspondent for the Financial Times for the past three years. Before that, she was a health and pharmaceuticals reporter at The Wall Street Journal, a beat she covered since July 2021.
Schwartz also was the Journal’s Israel and Palestinian Territories correspondent, based in Tel Aviv. She has also reported on foreign affairs and the U.S. State Department out of the Journal’s bureau in Washington, D.C.
Schwartz has also worked at CNN. Schwartz graduated from Dartmouth College.
