Politico’s Clea Benson, senior managing editor; Alex Burns, senior executive editor, North America; Kate Day, senior executive editor, Europe; and Jonathan Greenberger, global editor in chief, sent out the following:
We are thrilled to start the week with an exciting announcement: Stefanie Bolzen is joining POLITICO as Transatlantic Correspondent, based on the U.S. Trade team.
Many of you already know Stefanie or have worked alongside her. A veteran of the foreign desk at our sister publication WELT, and its North America Editor in Washington for the past three years, she has embedded herself in our newsroom — working from our Rosslyn office and partnering with POLITICO colleagues on a string of consequential stories. Among them: with Paul McLeary and Chris Lunday, she broke the news that the Pentagon is likely to cancel its Tomahawk missile deal with Germany; with Tim Ross and Nahal Toosi, she co-authored an in-depth profile of the U.S. diplomat at the center of Washington’s clash with Europe over online speech and tech regulation.
Stefanie arrives at a decisive moment for the relationship between the United States and Europe, as Washington reorders its trade ties, its security commitments, and its posture toward longtime allies. Drawing on sourcing built across foreign ministries, diplomatic and business networks, Stefanie will report from inside the rooms where these decisions are weighed.
POLITICO’s trade reporters on both sides of the Atlantic have set the pace on this important storyline, and Stefanie’s arrival positions us to own it even more completely. She will also continue to mine her national security sources and collaborate with colleagues across the U.S., EU UK newsrooms on stories at the intersection of American and European politics and policy.
Before Washington, Stefanie reported on the EU and NATO from Brussels, covered the UK and Ireland from London, and began her career as a foreign news editor in Berlin focused on EU enlargement and the Balkan conflicts. Few reporters have covered both sides of the transatlantic relationship as closely as she has — the European institutions up close, and Washington from the vantage of one of America’s closest allies. That dual fluency is exactly what this beat demands.
A native German speaker equally comfortable in English and Spanish, she lives in Washington with her family.
Stefanie starts July 1 and will report to Emily Cadei. Please join us in welcoming Stefanie to POLITICO.
