The following excerpt announcement was sent out by national editor Steven Ginsberg, deputy national editor Lori Montgomery, senior politics editor Peter Wallsten and political investigations editor Matea Gold:
We are delighted to announce that Isaac Stanley-Becker is joining the National Political Enterprise and Investigative team to cover money and influence in politics.
Since coming aboard the Politics team two years ago, Isaac has demonstrated keen investigative instincts. For the past six months, Isaac has been deployed to the Health team. Isaac was a two-time intern, reporting in Washington for National in 2016 and in Germany for Foreign the following year. In 2018, while working on his doctorate in Europe, he wrote for Morning Mix.
Isaac was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Chicago and the District. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University, where he was editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, and a master’s degree and PhD from the University of Oxford. He is completing a book about the history of migration in Europe’s open zone of free movement, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
Please join us in congratulating him.