The New Republic adds three to boost political coverage

The New Republic has added Timothy Noah, Daniel Strauss, and Grace Segers to the magazine’s Washington D.C. team as staff writers, reporting to newly appointed editor Michael Tomasky.

Previously, Noah was a labor policy editor at Politico and has contributed to MSNBC.com. He was senior editor and “TRB From Washington” columnist at The New Republic. He has also written for Slate magazine.

He was also assistant managing editor and press columnist at U.S. News & World Report, and a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He has also worked at Newsweek, The Washington Monthly, and The New York Times.

He also won the Sidney Hillman Prize and is the author of “The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It” (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Noah graduated from Harvard University.

Strauss will be covering Capitol Hill, the White House, and campaigns and elections. Recently, he was a senior political reporter at The Guardian. He has also reported for Politico and Talking Points Metro. He has also written for The Hill.

Strauss graduated from the University of Michigan.

Segers joins from CBS News, where she was a political reporter. She was also an editorial assistant and then served as a digital reporter at City & State. She has also interned at WBUR and reported for the Courier News and Home News Tribune.

She has also worked at Pi Media.

Segers graduated from Tufts University.