Washington Post’s Irwin to join New York Times

Neil Irwin, a Washington Post columnist and the economics editor of Wonkblog, is leaving the paper to join the New York Times.

Irwin confirmed the change on Twitter on Thursday.

Each weekday morning his Econ Agenda column reports and explains the latest trends in  economics, finance, and the policies that shape both.

He is the author of “The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire,” a book about the efforts  of the world’s central banks to combat the financial crisis and its aftermath, to be published in spring 2013 by the Penguin Press.

Irwin covered economics and the Federal Reserve for The Post from 2007 to 2012, where he helped lead  coverage of the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis, recession and government  response. He has been a reporter at the Post since 2000, and also covered topics  including the Washington regional economy, economic development and  Internet companies.

He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economic and Business  Journalism at Columbia University, from which he has an MBA. Irwin’s undergraduate studies were at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.