Acting DC bureau chief for Reuters leaving for Politico

Reuters America editor Dayan Candappa sent out the following announcement Thursday morning:

I regret to announce that Karey Van Hall is leaving Reuters after 11 years to take on a new role as Politico’s News Editor.

Jason Szep and Kieran Murray will share the arrangements for running the bureau until Kevin Krolicki, the new bureau chief, arrives in May.

Karey joined Reuters in 2004 and has held a series of roles in the Washington bureau, including company news editor, news editor and most recently deputy bureau chief. She was a very successful bank regulation reporter during the 2008 financial crisis, and as news editor, Karey led her team to a series of scoops on the financial regulation story last year.

Karey is a truly talented leader who came into her own as acting bureau chief during the past few months. She worked across the file, marshaling our forces, setting priorities and doing more than anyone else to smooth the inevitable wrinkles in the relationship between Washington reporters and the editors in New York. We will all miss her professionalism, great organizational skills, knowledge of virtually every Washington story and her remarkable ability to stay cheerful even in the gloomiest of circumstances.

Karey, thank you and all the very best.

Politico’s Susan Glasser sent out the following announcement:

Great news: Karey Van Hall will join us as POLITICO’s News Editor later this month. She will be a key player in the newsroom’s journalism, running and elevating the daily file for us, working closely with editors and reporters across the place and generally helping make this fast-growing place fire on all cylinders. Karey comes to us from Reuters, where she’s worked for more than a decade, most recently as news editor and deputy bureau chief for the Washington bureau and since January (when Marilyn Thompson joined us) as acting bureau chief. Karey, who worked as a banking reporter at the height of the financial crisis, made the jump to editing in 2010. A graduate of  the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she lives in Washington with her husband, Mike Van Hall, and their dog, a Vizsla named Bella. Please join us in welcoming her!