Biz reporter Sullivan leaving Washington Post

Fred Barbash, an editor at The Washington Post who oversees the Morning Mix blog, sent out the following staff departure announcement:

We’re sorry to announce that Gail Sullivan, one of the founding reporters on our Morning Mix team, is leaving us.  She’ll be  joining her husband in Los Angeles. Gail came to us from CQ-Rollcall to cover business for the Morning Mix, writing terrific pieces on everything from Jack Ma of Alibaba to Apple’s purchase of Beats. She soon expanded her repertoire and produced some of the most popular pieces Morning Mix has run, among them the story of the woman who walked around New York getting sexually harassed and the taste-test triumph of Japanese whiskey over Scotch whiskey. With her law degree, she became our resident legal writer as well, explaining how the Supreme Court has made it difficult to charge police officers who kill , the first revenge porn conviction and why the no-fly list was declared unconstitutional.

She demonstrated in just a few months of the Morning Mix’s existence how much opportunity it presents for a writer to spread her reportorial wings, and how rich a vein there is to be tapped in fast-paced general assignment reporting.

We’re confident that with what she’s accomplished, she’ll land a great job in LA. And of course, we will miss her, as well as her vegan chocolate cake. Her last day is Dec. 23.