Bloomberg hires Wilber for DC bureau

Bloomberg News managing editor Tim Franklin sent out the following staff announcement on Wednesday:

We’re pleased to announce that Del Wilber, most recently of the Washington Post and formerly of the Baltimore Sun, joins us today to cover the Justice Department and criminal justice issues.

Del is an award-winning reporter whose investigations have landed public officials in prison and whose aggressive beat reporting has been honored nationally. He also happens to be a New York Times bestselling author.

While at the Sun, Wilber led the paper’s reporting on the D.C. sniper shootings — coverage that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2004, he won a national reporting award for work that included an investigation of the city’s police chief, who was later convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to federal prison.

Del joined the Post in 2004. He covered everything from the trials of former Senator Ted Stevens and former baseball superstar Roger Clemens to the legal issues surrounding the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and the investigation into corruption associated with the D.C. mayor’s 2010 campaign. He also has focused on enterprise stories about murderous drug gangs, Somali pirates, undercover informants and even a controversial cancer surgeon.

His 2011 book on the near-assassination of President Reagan, “Rawhide Down,” was a national bestseller. For the last year, he was on leave researching and writing his second book, a narrative about homicide detectives in suburban Prince George’s County that will be published in 2015.

Del will report to Steve Komarow, who oversees coverage of the Justice Department and White House.

Del is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and Georgetown Prep. Del and his wife, NPR correspondent Laura Sullivan, have two sons.

Please join us in welcoming Del to the newsroom.