Reuters names Wise its airlines/transportation reporter

Reuters transportation editor Joe White sent out the following announcement:

All – Fresh from a year on the presidential campaign trail, Alana Wise is moving to the airlines and travel beat, based in New York and starting now.

Alana, a graduate of Howard University, joined Reuters in 2015 as an intern on the campaign team and became a correspondent in April 2016. During a tumultuous primary and general election contest, Alana reported on the pre-election anxiety of Democrats, the attacks and counter-attacks of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and the role of email servers and the FBI in electoral politics.  Alana also reported from Charleston and San Bernardino in the aftermath of deadly mass shootings in those cities.

On her new beat, Alana will be moving from the thrust and parry of politics to the no less competitive world of the travel industry. Her main focus will be the airline industry, but hotels, cruise lines and internet travel brokers will get their due.

For the next month or so, she will be working with Jeffrey Dastin, who is leaving airlines for a new post in San Francisco covering Amazon and other internet enabled businesses. Jeffrey’s enthusiasm, energy and news radar will be missed on the transportation beat. Since Amazon is contemplating its own air force, we expect to hear from Jeffrey often.

Please join me in welcoming Alana to the transportation team.