Politico names Niedzwiadek its labor policy reporter

Nick Niedzwiadek

Politico managing editor Sudeep Reddy sent out the following on Thursday:

We’re pleased to announce that Nick Niedzwiadek will join our labor policy team as a reporter, covering a wide range of employment and immigration issues and helping to steer our Morning Shift newsletter.

Nick has held numerous roles for POLITICO for the past five years. He’s been on our breaking news desk since the fall of 2020, delivering political coverage across the election cycle, chronicling fallout from the many waves of Covid-19, helming the Jan. 6 sentencing tracker and occasionally chipping in on West Wing Playbook.

During his time in Albany, where he started as an intern in 2016, he covered health care policy, education policy, gambling and all manner of state politics including the Cuomo administration. Nick is a graduate of the University of North Carolina who has also written for the Albany Times Union and The Wall Street Journal.

Nick gets started today, reporting to Tax & Labor Editor Toby Eckert. Please join us in congratulating him on this new role.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.