Ben Pershing, the politics editor of The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the news organization.
“It’s been a genuine pleasure to work with you,” he wrote in an email to colleagues. “I especially want to thank Tim, Josh and the entire politics team for your great journalism and your warmth and generosity as colleagues. I’m very proud of what we’ve done together.”
He previously served as editor of National Journal. Pershing served for six years as a staff writer at The Washington Post. He covered Congress for the national staff, anchoring a popular blog and a weekly column on Capitol Hill, and has covered high-profile Senate and governor races in Virginia.
He got his start in Washington with a decade at Roll Call, both as reporter and editor.
A Los Angeles native, he is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
