Reuters hires two reporters for DC, one for New York

Reuters has expanded its 2016 election team with three new hires.

Erin McPike and Ginger Gibson will be based in our D.C bureau and will start at the end of August.

McPike is a political reporter covering her third consecutive presidential campaign.  She most recently was a correspondent in CNN’s Washington bureau, where she reported from the White House on stories including the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, the Iran nuclear deal, ISIS killings and U.S. budget deliberations.

Gibson most recently worked as the senior political writer at the International Business Times. As a national political reporter at Politico, Gibson covered the 2012 presidential campaign, crisscrossing the nation with Newt Gingrich during the Republican primary and Mitt Romney during the general election.

And Grant Smith joins in New York, focused on campaign finance, but he has broad expertise and can dive into other subjects too. Smith is an award-winning journalist, and was the data reporter at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.