Amy Schatz, a senior editor for tech news site Re/code, is leaving to become deputy technology editor for Politico Pro.
At Re/code, Schatz focused on tech policy issues from Washington, D.C., including the Federal Communications Commission, privacy and legislative issues. She most recently covered implementation of the Affordable Care Act for the Wall Street Journal, where she was a reporter for a decade, covering tech policy from 2005 through 2012.
Before joining the Journal, Schatz covered Dell for the Austin American-Statesman. She wrote about Austin Internet start-ups in 1999 and, a year later, began writing about bankruptcy court, where most of those startups landed. She began her reporting career in a bureau of the St. Petersburg Times.
A native Hoosier, Schatz graduated from Indiana University and received an MBA from Georgetown University in 2012.
