Laura Maggi has been hired as an editor at E&E News to be an editorial on its natural resources team.
She starts on Monday.
She had been the managing editor at Route Fifty, which covers state and local government issues. Before joining Route Fifty, Maggi was the metro editor at The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the deputy editor at The New Orleans Advocate. Laura also worked as a reporter at The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans for 13 years, covering state government, criminal justice and health care.
She got her start at the now-defunct States News Service in Washington, D.C. and spent a year as a writing fellow at The American Prospect magazine.