Reuters names deputy U.S. public finance editor

Megan Davies, who oversees public finance coverage for Reuters, sent out the following announcement:

I am very pleased to announce that Dan Bases has been appointed deputy U.S. Public Finance EIC. Dan has been at Reuters for 18 years, where he has worked in both the New York and London bureaus and developed a specialization in emerging markets with assignments to Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia.

His experience covering sovereign debt crises such as Argentina and Ecuador, among others, will be invaluable on the municipal bond team, where cities, states and territories regularly – and dramatically – implode. Alongside work in U.S. markets and emerging markets, as well as foreign exchange, Dan has also rotated through general news, the London World Desk, the United Nations and spearheaded coverage of side events at the UNGA for 8 years. He’s among just a handful of correspondents anywhere to earn an audience with Kazakhstan’s perpetual president Nazarbayev and counts making the Queen of England laugh as one of the highlights of his assignment in London.

Dan has a BA in history and masters in journalism from Columbia University, where he was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow. He just won their 2014-5 prize for his work covering the latest Argentina debt crisis. Outside work, he’s a keen fencer, and student of languages, foremost in French and Russian.