Reuters names Lambert as DC financial regulation correspondent

Carmel Crimmins, financial services editor for the Americas at Reuters, sent out the following announcement:

I am pleased to announce that Lisa Lambert has been appointed U.S. financial regulation correspondent, based in Washington.

Lisa will be reporting on financial policy moves from the Fed,  the SEC and other regulatory agencies as well as the battle over the future of Dodd-Frank reforms in a role that combines her expertise on breaking news with her experience of covering financial markets.

Born in Denver and raised in Los Angeles, Lisa had never lived east of the Mississippi before coming to D.C. to work as a Reuters news assistant in 2005.  The financial crisis of 2008 gave her a rich seam of stories to mine in the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market, which she covered from D.C.

In 2012 she took a break to indulge her love of politics and covered the final months of the presidential election from the White House. Most recently, as a member of the  D.C. speed team, she has boosted our responsiveness to breaking national and international news.

Before joining Reuters, Lisa graduated from journalism school at Berkeley where she won the top political reporting prize and where she developed such a deep affection for the Bay Area that she has never changed the area code for her cell phone. Before that, she covered the arts for Willamette Week, the Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly for Portland (and yes, she does find many of the eccentricities lampooned on Portlandia very familiar).