Wanat joining Politico’s energy and climate team

Zosia Wanat is joining Politico Europe’s energy and climate team in March as a reporter. She has been Politico Europe’s policy reporter, covering agriculture and food safety. Previously she worked for MLex in Brussels as a Brexit correspondent and for the Financial Times as a reporter in London, Paris and Warsaw. She has also published in various […]

Kaiser Health hires Tahir to cover health tech

Kaiser Health News has hired Darius Tahir to cover health technology. He will start in March. “It’s an opportunity to describe how this new universe of tech tools are affecting patients on the ground,” he wrote on Twitter. Tahir has been at Politico as its eHealth reporter for Politico Pro since May 2015. Before joining Politico, Tahir worked […]

King to join the New York Times as political reporter

Maya King will be joining The New York Times as a political reporter adding coverage to the South. She begins on Feb. 22. King has recently been working as a politics reporter at Politico, where she covered the relationship between race and national politics. She has also interned in Washington D.C. at Democracy Fund and […]

Politico taps Klahr as video producer

Renee Klahr has joined Politico as a video producer. She was recently a producer at NPR. She has also interned at Bethesda Magazine, a bimonthly magazine in Bethesda, MD. She has also interned at USA Today and 5W Public Relations in New York. She has also written for The Diamondback, the student paper of the […]

Axios taps Politico’s Bettelheim as senior health care editor

Axios has hired Adriel Bettelheim as senior health care editor overseeing health care and health policy coverage. He was previously a health care editor at Politico. Before that, he was a managing editor at CQ Roll Call. He has also served as a health regulation team leader at Bloomberg News. Bettelheim was also a senior […]

Politico hires Behsudi as news editor for economics and finance

Adam Behsudi will be rejoining Politico as news editor for economics and finance. He begins in March. Behsudi has previously worked at Politico from 2013 to 2020, where he helped launch Politico’s trade coverage. Recently, he has been working as a communications officer at the International Monetary Fund. He was also an associate editor of […]

Politico names Niedzwiadek its labor policy reporter

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 […]

Payne joins Politico as health care reporter

Daniel Payne has moved into a full-time role as a health care reporter at Politico. Prior to joining Politico in 2019 as a fellow, Payne was executive editor at The DeSoto Times-Tribune, a locally owned community paper in DeSoto County. He has also reported for The Lens Collective in The Mississippi Delta and was an […]

Van Tine joins Politico as health care editor

Politico has tapped Barbara Van Tine as a health care editor. She previously managed and directed editorial content for the University of California-Berkeley’s consumer health newsletter. She has also worked as a web consultant/copy writer at The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and was editor-in-chief of Dowden Health Media in Montvale, New Jersey. Tine graduated from […]

Politico promotes Banco to global health correspondent

Politico has tapped Erin Banco as a global health correspondent covering the pandemic, focusing on how the Biden administration’s policy decisions impact the health and security of other countries. She recently served as a health care reporter. Before that, she was a national security reporter at the Daily Beast. She was also an investigative reporter […]