Perano swaps Politico for The Daily Beast
Ursula Perano has joined The Daily Beast as a politics reporter, focusing on progressives. She was previously a legislative reporter and newsletter author at Politico. She was a newsdesk reporter at Axios and has interned at Politico and CNN. Perano graduated from Florida State University.
Washington Post announces two additions to editorial-opinions team
The following excerpt announcement was sent out by The Washington Post’s opinion section’s chief multiplatform editor Trey Johnson and manager of editorial talent and logistics Nana Efua Mumford: We are very excited to announce two additions to the Editorial-Opinions multiplatform editor team. John Romero has been with The Post since 2012, initially splitting his time […]
Law360 taps Mejdrich to cover employee benefits
Kellie Mejdrich, a financial services reporter at Politico for the past 2 years, will be leaving. Her last day is Nov. 9. She will be joining Law360 as a senior reporter covering employee benefits. She begins Nov. 15. Prior to Politico, Mejdrich was a transportation reporter and then served as an appropriations and budget reporter […]
Politico makes two new hires
Politico has hired Jonathan Lemire as White House bureau chief. Additionally, he will also be the host of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early.” He begins in November. Lemire joins from The Associated Press, where he served as a political reporter, and recently as a White House reporter. In addition to working at AP, he is also […]
Sfondeles joins Politico’s White House team
Tina Sfondeles will be shifting from co-authoring the West Wing Playbook to become a full-time member of the White House team, reports Politico. She was previously a politics correspondent at Business Insider. She was also with the Chicago Sun-Times for over 12 years, where she worked as a transportation reporter/breaking news reporter, general assignment reporter/political […]
Politico hires Lee to cover food policy
Politico managing editor Sudeep Reddy sent out the following announcement on Monday: We’re pleased to introduce Meredith Lee, most recently a White House reporter and producer at PBS NewsHour, as the newest member of our stellar team covering food and agriculture policy. Meredith spent the past six years at NewsHour covering the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, the […]
Stolton joins Politico as tech reporter
Politico Europe has hired Samuel Stolton as a tech reporter, based in Brussels. Previously, he has worked freelance, specializing in EU policy, technology news and digital affairs. He has also worked at The Brussels Times, the English-language Belgian news website and magazine. He was also a journalist at Euractiv in Brussels and has worked at […]
Davidson returning to Politico for Morning Money
Politico managing editor Sudeep Reddy sent out the following on Tuesday: We’re thrilled to announce that Kate Davidson, a skilled journalist who has dominated economics and finance beats in Washington for the past dozen years, is returning to POLITICO. Kate, who just wrapped up nearly seven years at The Wall Street Journal, will be the first […]
Dean departing Politico for WSJ
Elise Dean, an associate video producer at Politico, will be joining The Wall Street Journal’s video team this month. She was also host and producer of She+ Podcast, a female-empowerment podcast that tells the extraordinary stories of everyday women, feminists, female-identifying and non-binary people. She has also interned at Sirius XM. She has also worked […]
Hounshell joins NY Times “On Politics” team
Blake Hounshell is joining the New York Times to help re-engineer and build a new team for “On Politics,” one of the biggest and best newsletters of its kind. He starts October 25. Currently, Hounshell is managing editor, Washington and Politics, at Politico. Previously, he served as editorial director for digital and editor-in-chief for Politico […]
