Ellis of Bloomberg News to take over CQ Roll Call

CQ Roll Call announced two top editorial leadership appointments Monday.

David Ellis of Bloomberg News has been named vice president of News, overseeing CQ Roll Call’s news-gathering operations. Benton Ives, currently director of legal products for CQ Roll Call, has been named editor-in-chief of the CQ Weekly, the company’s 69-year-old magazine on government, commerce and politics.

Both positions will report to chief content officer David Rapp.

“David Ellis is that rare political journalist who combines creative, must-read journalism skills with entrepreneurial zeal,” said Rapp, who worked with Ellis during overlapping stints at Bloomberg Government, in a statement. “He will provide energetic, innovative leadership to a staff of reporters and editors who already provide world-class coverage of Congress and the legislative process.”

Ellis has spent more than two decades covering politics and business in the U.S. and U.K. He is currently editor-at-large at the Bloomberg News Washington bureau, where he led a yearlong freedom of information project tracking the Obama administration’s open-government pledge and a series on the Justice Department’s prosecution of whistle blowers.

He also guided an award-winning investigation of the U.S. crop insurance program, developed ‘Government Insider’ supplements for Bloomberg Businessweek, and most recently helped launch the Quicktake topics pages on Bloomberg.com.

Ives takes over the helm of CQ Weekly after beginning his career in journalism at CQ in 2002. He most recently served as the director of CQ’s legal and regulatory products. Ives worked his way up at CQ from editorial assistant to economics editor, with a stint in between at Dow Jones as a reporter covering the Treasury and the Fed.  Ives helped set up and run a partnership between CQ Roll Call and Thompson Reuters, covering securities, banking, energy and immigration.