WSJ reporter Dawsey hired by Politico to cover White House

Politico editor Carrie Budoff-Brown and editor in chief John Harris sent the following announcement to the staff:

Hi all —

John and I are thrilled to announce that Josh Dawsey, a New York City Hall reporter for The Wall Street Journal, will join our White House team later this month.

He struck us immediately as a classic POLITICO reporter. He excels at breaking news, getting behind the scenes to show how decisions are made, and holding public officials to account.

Josh has worked at The Journal since 2012, breaking a number of stories about federal investigations into City Hall, record lobbying in the city and the questionable ethical activities of the mayor’s political non-profit and his outside advisers. He has written detailed portraits of the mayor’s management style and character, taking readers deep inside City Hall, while chronicling Bill de Blasio’s attempts to become a leader in the Democratic Party and his intra-party feud with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

He previously covered Gov. Chris Christie and New Jersey for the paper, chronicling the governor’s political ambitions, the trials and tribulations of Bridgegate, the continued demise of Atlantic City and the state’s wobbly and weakening economy.

He graduated from the University of South Carolina and is a proud Southerner.

We are very excited to welcome Josh to the newsroom on December 12, and to turn him loose on Washington and the incoming Trump administration.