Bloomberg adds two reporters to congressional team

Bloomberg Washington bureau chief and executive editor Megan Murphy announced two new hires Thursday afternoon, both on its congressional team:

I’m thrilled to announce two new hires to our Congress team, as we deepen our already-outstanding bench on Capitol Hill.

Kevin Whitelaw, the editor of CQ Weekly, will be joining us to lead our congressional coverage, reporting to Craig Gordon. Steven T. Dennis, recently of CQ Roll Call, is joining us to cover the Senate, reporting to Kevin and joining Billy House and Kathleen Miller on the beat. Laurie Asseo, who has done extraordinary work keeping the coverage at a high level through some very busy months, will report to Kevin and continue to bring her sure hands and sharp eye to Congress and Supreme Court coverage.

Kevin comes to us from CQ Weekly, where he edited enterprise reporting on policy, politics, and foreign affairs. A 20-year Washington veteran, Kevin has covered everything from congress and appropriations, national security, business and economics. He spent 14 years at U.S. News and World Report where he traveled extensively around the world to Iraq (two trips before the U.S. invasion, and five afterwards), Afghanistan, Kosovo, Colombia, UAE, Yemen, Kosovo, Rwanda, the West Bank, Congo, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf (the list goes on!) covering national security and foreign affairs.

At CQ Roll Call, Steven held positions as Congressional leadership editor, Senate editor, and as the outlet’s White House reporter for four years. Steven was recently cited by USA Today as the White House reporter not seated in the first few rows who still regularly gets called on during White House Briefings — we know he’ll bring that dogged reporting style to his coverage of Capitol Hill at Bloomberg.

Please give both of them a warm welcome – they will join us on January 4.