Bloomber Businessweek hires senior national correspondent

Joshua Green, former senior editor at The Atlantic, will be joining Bloomberg Businessweek as senior national correspondent, the magazine announced Thursday.

Green will focus on political coverage for the magazine and Businessweek.com and will be based in Washington, D.C.

“Josh is a great reporter and writer. He knows how to break news and he writes about complicated issues and personalities in memorable prose,” said Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel in a statement. “He’s a great addition to our political team, and we are thrilled to have him join us.”

Green joins Bloomberg Businessweek from The Atlantic, where he was a senior editor, as well as a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe. He has also written for The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Previously, Green was an editor at The Washington Monthly.

His writing has been anthologized in books ranging from The Best American Political Writing to The Bob Marley Reader, and he has appeared on television shows from NBC’s “Meet the Press” to HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”