New beats for Dow Jones DC reporters

Rob Wells, the Washington bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, and Mark Anderson, the deputy bureau chief, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Thursday:

Please join us in congratulating Maya Jackson Randall, Jared Favole and Jeffrey Sparshott on new beat assignments in the Washington bureau. Maya will cover national economic issues with a focus on the U.S. Treasury’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and personal finance issues such as credit cards. Jared will be the White House reporter, full-time, focusing on economic policy. And Jeffrey will be the senior Treasury reporter, covering the Treasury secretary and U.S. fiscal policy.

Maya, who joined the Dow Jones Washington bureau in 2004, most recently covered the White House and previously held beats covering the Treasury, economic issues and energy policy. She won a William R. Clabby award and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award, in conjunction with Michael Crittenden, this year for her reporting on the financial crisis. Prior to Dow Jones, Maya was associate editor at McGraw-Hill’s Inside FERC publication and a reporter at Money Magazine. She has a master’s degree in journalism from University of Maryland, College Park, Md. and a bachelor’s degree from Howard University in Washington. She also interned for The Wall Street Journal in Washington in 2001.

Jared came to the Washington bureau in 2008 to cover the Food and Drug Administration after two years at the former Corporate Filings Alert. He has was assigned to the White House on an interim basis in April, 2010, filling in for Maya while she was on leave. Jared holds a degree in journalism and English from the University of Maryland and a Master’s of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis.

Jeffrey joined Dow Jones in 2007, working in London on the natural resources team, and recently transferred to the Washington bureau. In London, he was a news editor on the energy team and previously worked as a mining equities reporter. Jeffrey joined Dow Jones from Platts’ London office where he was a U.K. power market reporter. He holds a Master of Arts, International Affairs, from George Washington University in Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and International Relations from Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.