Politico hires top energy reporter

Politico announced Friday that it has hired Darren Samuelsohn who had worked for the past decade at Greenwire and Environment & Energy Daily.

Betsy Rothstein of FishbowlDC reports, “Asked how he feels about being called the ‘best energy reporter in Washington’ he replied, ‘It’s an honor. There’s a lot of good reporters in the city that have been covering this for years. They told me that were going around looking for someone for this job that they consistently heard my name. It’s a great feeling. That was pretty cool.’

“But leaving a publication after a decade is hard. His publication definitely wanted him to stay. ‘It was a difficult decision for me to leave,’ he said. ‘Great bosses and a great work environment. I’ve been there pretty much my entire time in Washington. Pretty much my family.’

“The advantages of Politico? ‘It’s clearly a larger audience and to take on a different perspective of Washington, D.C.,’ he said. ‘Our audiences now are the movers and shakers in this city. At Politico, it’s those people and more.'”

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