Categories: OLD Media Moves

Stephenson leaving Reuters to become Politico news editor

Kieran Murray, the Washington bureau chief for Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

Dear all,

I’m sad to share the news that Emily Stephenson will be leaving Reuters at the end of this week to take up a new job as news editor at Politico.

Emily started her career at Reuters as a summer intern in 2010 in Chicago before moving to the Washington bureau, where she covered financial regulation and was a team leader on the Speed Team. She then moved to the campaign team in the fall of 2015 and made her mark with a number of deeply reported stories, including a piece during the campaign delving into Ted Cruz’s most famous Supreme Court case, a scoop on the details of Trump’s tax plan and a Special Report in 2012 that used data to dive into the impact of U.S. Postal Service closings.

In addition to being a talented journalist, Emily is well-known in the bureau for her collegiality and teamwork.

We will miss her but wish her all the best in her new job.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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