The Wall Street Journal has hired Jimmy Vielkind to cover New York politics.
Vielkind was a founding member of Politico New York’s state Capitol bureau and was named bureau chief in November 2013, when the operation was still known as Capital New York.
He has been reporting on state government and politics since 2008, first as a correspondent for the New York Observer and later for the Albany Times Union.
Vielkind also covered breaking news and Brooklyn for the New York Daily News while a college student, and he spent his first year after graduation as the nighttime police reporter for the Times Union.
At Politico, Vielkind coordinates the largest bureau at the capitol and reports and writes articles and analyses state politics. He has been a regular contributor to Politico New York’s magazine and a frequent guest on radio and television programs.
He has bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Columbia University and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from SUNY Albany.
