Politico’s Caputo departs for NBC News
Marc Caputo has left Politico after almost 7 years to join NBC News and NBC Politics. Caputo joined Politico in 2015 and helped establish the Politico Florida bureau and wrote the Florida Playbook for four years, covering politics and policy. He served as a senior writer for Politico and covered national politics. In 2019, he […]
Barron’s hires Politico’s Cassella to cover economics and policy
Megan Cassella, a reporter for Politico, has been hired by Barron’s to cover economics and policy. She will start on Monday. Cassella has been with Politico for more than five years and has been primarily a trade reporter. Previously, Cassella worked for Reuters based out of Washington, covering the economy, domestic politics and the 2016 presidential […]
WSJ’s Levy joins Politico as health care reporter
Rachael Levy has joined Politico as a reporter covering the money behind U.S. health care. She comes from The Wall Street Journal, where she served as a hedge fund reporter, and most recently as a domestic terrorism reporter. She has also worked as a senior reporter and then as a correspondent at Business Insider. She […]
Politico hires Messerly as national health care reporter
Megan Messerly will be joining Politico as a health care reporter covering health policy in the states. She will be based in Washington, D.C. Currently, she is a politics and health policy reporter at The Nevada Independent, which she will be leaving on Dec. 17 to join Politico in January. She was also a political […]
Korecki joins NBC News as senior national political reporter
NBC News has tapped Natasha Korecki as a senior national politics reporter on the NBC Politics team. She joins from Politico, where she was a national correspondent. Korecki was with the Chicago Sun-Times for over 11 years, where she worked as a federal courts reporter and then as a chief political reporter. She has also […]
Bloomberg Law hires Rainey to cover Labor Department
Bloomberg Law has hired Rebecca Rainey to cover the Labor Department as a senior reporter. She will start next month. Rainey has been at Politico for the past three years as an employment and immigration reporter with Politico Pro and the author of the Morning Shift newsletter. Prior to joining Politico in August 2018, Rainey covered the […]
Politico taps Kern for tech team
Rebecca Kern has joined Politico’s technology team, covering online speech, misinformation, content moderation and the broader technology policy on Capitol Hill. Kern joins from Bloomberg Government, where she was a technology reporter covering technology policy issues and legislation on Capitol Hill, including privacy, telecom and cybersecurity issues. She also helped write BGov’s Tech and Cyber […]
NY Times hires Noguchi as executive producer of opinion audio
The New York Times has appointed Irene Noguchi as executive producer of opinion audio. Currently, she is head of audio and executive producer of podcasts at Politico. She was also an executive producer at Vox.com and has worked at KQED in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has also worked as a producer/reporter and then […]
Politico hires Siegel to cover energy and climate
Politico has hired Joshua Siegel to cover energy and climate news coming out of Congress. Siegel is currently an energy and environment reporter at the Washington Examiner and helps author the Daily on Energy newsletter. Prior to that beat, he covered foreign policy, immigration, and criminal justice. He graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University, where he studied business and […]
Politico taps Daugherty to helm Morning Transportation newsletter
Alex Daugherty is joining Politico to lead the Morning Transportation newsletter and report on infrastructure, supply chains and transportation issues. Previously, he was a Washington correspondent at The Miami Herald, where he has also worked as a politics reporter. He was also a Washington correspondent for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, one of McClatchy’s flagship newspapers. […]
