Polly Mosendz, a breaking news and crime reporter for Newsweek, has been hired by Bloomberg News.
She starts Feb. 8.
At Bloomberg, she will cover the anthropology of business for the Game Plan desk. Her work will appear both on the website and in Bloomberg Businessweek
She was previously a staff writer for The Wire and associate editor for The Atlantic. Her reporting on the Islamic State has been recognized by a variety of organizations, including the Middle East Institute.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Observer, The Commercial Observer, Cosmopolitan, Business Insider, Yahoo News and a variety of other publications.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, she is fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian. Mosendz attended the New School University where she studied media writing and American history.