Susan Benkelman
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CQ Roll Call Adds Reporters to Policy Beats - Posted February 28, 2012
CQ Roll Call's Susan Benkelman issued an internal memo today to announce two new hires and a newsroom shift. Ambreen Ali will become a technology reporter. Melissa Attias will now cover healthcare. "I'm excited to announce staff additions in tw... [FishbowlDC]
CQ Roll Call Makes a Brash Hire - Posted January 4, 2012
Philip Brasher, who wrote about ag policy for the Des Moines Register and most recently worked in Gannett's D.C. bureau, comes to CQ Roll Call to be editor of the Executive Briefing on Agriculture and Food.
... [FishbowlDC]
Roll Call's Starkey Moves Back to CQ - Posted November 9, 2011
Roll Call web editor Melanie Starkey is moving to CQ to begin a new role as editor for daily news. In an email announcing the transition, Susan Benkelman called Starkey a "solid editor with great news judgment and an unflappable disposition."
Prior to her most recent gig, Starkey was a copy... [PRNewser]
Roll Call's Starkey Moves Back to CQ - Posted November 9, 2011
Roll Call web editor Melanie Starkey is moving to CQ to begin a new role as editor for daily news. In an email announcing the transition, Susan Benkelman called Starkey a "solid editor with great news judgment and an unflappable disposition."
Prior to her most recent gig, Starkey was a copy... [FishbowlDC]
Ives Upped at CQ Roll Call - Posted October 18, 2011
Susan Benkelman announced this morning a promotion for CQ's Benton Ives. The newsgroup's Economics and Finance editor will transition from his post overseeing coverage of the debt and deficit crisis to take the newly created position of editor for CQ's Executive Briefing on Banking and Finance. In his new... [FishbowlDC]
Longtime CQ Defense Writer Upped to Editor - Posted August 29, 2011
CQ's John Donnelly is being promoted to editor after seven years working as a defense writer for the publication. The position is newly created. CQ Executive Editor ... [TVNewser]
CQ Roll Call Adds Two Reporters - Posted April 28, 2011
CQ Executive Editor Susan Benkelman announced yesterday the addition of two new staff writers to the CQ social policy team. Joanne Kenen, a senior writer in health policy for the New America Foundation, will join the publication on May 2 to cover health care. She is a former Reuters... [FishbowlDC]
CQ-Roll Call Snags Politico Senior Editor - Posted August 30, 2010
CQ-Roll Call has hired Fred Barbash, a senior editor at Politico. Before that, he worked as an editor and writer at WaPo. He joins CQ-Roll Call as deputy managing editor of CQ Weekly.
Barbash starts next month.
Politico's Executive Editor Jim VandeHei remarked, "Fred is a terrific e... [FishbowlDC]
Koss Named CQ Energy and Environment Writer - Posted July 12, 2010
Susan Benkelman announced late last week that Geof Koss will permanently take the role of energy and environment staff writer for CQ. Congrats to Geof! Memo below:
I'm happy to announce that Geof Koss will be our next energy and environment staff writer, in Paul Hendrie's group. Geof's been doing the... [FishbowlDC]
NJ's Friel to CQ - Posted June 2, 2010
In a memo to staff this morning, Susan Benkelman announced that National Journal reporter Brian Friel will be joining CQ to cover Senate leadership on the Inside Congress Team. Prior to his seven years at NJ, Friel worked at Government Executive magazine.
See Benkelman's full memo after the jump.
... [FishbowlDC]
Men Overboard: Nather Leaves CQ, Stein to Follow? - Posted September 18, 2009
David Nather is leaving CQ after almost a decade to co-write a book on health care reform with Tom Daschle.
Nather's exit follows that of ace defense reporter ... [FishbowlDC]
CQ-Roll Call Deal Signed, Management Changes Announced - Posted August 5, 2009
First on FishbowlDC: The ink is still drying on the Roll Call/Congressional Quarterly deal and new management changes are already being announced -- one of which involves Peter Cherukuri's position as publisher.
Cherukuri, the boy-wonder publisher of Roll Call will be stepping aside because his position "is redundant." Cherukuri will aid... [FishbowlDC]










