The Revolving Door

Another Politico journalist is jumping ship. This time, it’s Charles Hoskinson, who is setting sail to join The Navy Times as their Managing Editor. He has been writing the Morning Defense column. Hoskinson has a long history as a military man and reporter. He served 10 years as an officer in the Army Reserve and Guard before diving into the world of journalism. He has also served as an embedded reporter with troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

It’s interesting to note that Hoskinson is the third Morning Defense writer to leave in less than two years. And the seventh national security or foreign affairs writer to leave since Politico began five years ago. He’s the fourth Politico reporter to bolt so far this year. Sarah Libby, Bill Hamilton, Karen Tanabe, and now Hoskinson have all left in 2012. (We’re not even counting Ben Smith and Marin Cogan, who left late December of last year.)

We have reached out to Politico’s Editor-in-Chief, John Harris, for a comment.

 

 

 

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In some eyebrow raising news in media circles, Sara Libby, Deputy Politics Editor of Politico, will be joining TPM at the end of the month as associate editor. She’ll oversee TPM‘s 2012 coverage.

Libby joined Politico in July 2010. Previously she was the opinions editor at the Los Angeles Daily Journal and an editor at Creators Syndicate. According to her bio, she has written on women in politics for Salon and Slate and has contributed to LAT, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Oregonian.

She grew up in McMinnville, Ore.

Congratulations to Libby.

 

The Daily Beast‘s Howie Kurtz may have convinced longtime WaPo reporter Lois Romano to join him at The Beast in April 2011. But now, not even a year later, she has left him for Politico. In a notice today that appeared on the site’s On Media blog, brass announced that Romano has been hired as a senior political reporter. They call her one of “Washington’s most accomplished” journos.

“Lois’s presence in our newsroom will allow us to do types of stories that in the past might have been out of our reach,” writes Editor-in-Chief John Harris.

Romano spent 28 years at WaPo.

See the internal memo…

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CNN’s Jim Acosta has been upped to national political correspondent. Washington Bureau Chief and Senior V.P. Sam Feist announced the news today. Acosta begins his new assignment immediately.

“Jim has been an outstanding addition to the political team,” said Feist. “He has emerged as one of the key reporters on the campaign trail and his astute reporting skills will only help to position the network to dominate this important election cycle.”

Acosta remarked in a release: “Having grown up just outside of the nation’s capital, I’m very excited about this new assignment. I am honored to be part of CNN’s political team, which is second to none.”

In his new role, Acosta will work closely with the network’s political unit to provide coverage of the 2012 campaign including the primary races, the presidential debates, and the political conventions. He will also cover stories on policy and culture for various CNN programs, including “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” and “John King, USA.”

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Scott Stossel, deputy editor of The Atlantic, announced Friday that Kate Julian will be joining the magazine as a senior editor. She was previously at Slate, and before that, The New Yorker, WaPo’s Outlook section and O Magazine. Her first day is today.

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CQ Roll Call has hired Gautham Nagesh from The Hill, where he has worked for the last 20 months as a tech blogger. Before that, he worked at The Daily Caller. Nagesh will be editor of the forthcoming Executive Briefing on Technology, a new specialty publication.

He begins on Feb. 21.

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HuffPost‘s Social Media Editor Mandy Jenkins is calling it quits to assume a new career path. “I’ve been hired by Digital First Media to convert their many small, local newspapers into digital/social media mini-powerhouses,” she writes in a goodbye letter to colleagues. She plans on writing another, sappier, goodbye note later.

Psst…Huffpost‘s on the hunt to replace her.

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This morning NJ announces that Jim Oliphant is joining the publication as a deputy magazine editor. Oliphant is a presently a political reporter for LAT and the Chicago Tribune. Before journalism, he practiced law.

He begins on Feb. 13.

See the internal memo from Editor-in-Chief Ron Fournier, who remarks that the issue of which “pods” Oliphant will be working with will be sorted out in the near future.

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Paul Singer is joining USA Today as their new politics editor. Singer, who was been a star reporter for Roll Call, will be joining the Washington bureau for the paper to cover the 2012 campaign. He has been an investigative reporter for Roll Call since 2007.

The full memo from Roll Call is below

Nearly five years to the day after he arrived at Roll Call, Paul Singer

is leaving to become the Politics Editor at USA Today. 

Singer joined Roll Call Feb. 20, 2007 as the paper¹s investigative
reporter. He was later named Associate Editor and given various
editing/management duties, including helping Jennifer Yachnin create Roll
Call¹s ethics beat.

Singer¹s investigations have resulted in at least two ethics
investigations of sitting Members of Congress, helped feed the FBI¹s
investigation of Rep. Jack Murtha, and led Congress to cancel wasteful
projects. Singer¹s discovery of repeated failures by Members of Congress
to report profits from stock sales on their annual financial disclosure
forms led the House to redesign the forms with a box that more clearly
indicates the capital gains reporting requirement.

In 2011, Singer set up our influence/ethics/investigations unit and
assembled the crack staff now lovingly called Team Wasta. He also created
the HowGovtWorks Twitter feed and homepage.

He¹s been a willing workhorse in our newsroom. He¹s been a steady
advocate for excellent journalism, a tireless contributor to every spoken
(and sometimes unspoken) need. It¹s hard to believe sometimes that he
does it all without sugar.

We will miss him, but we wish him the best.

 

Jon Lovett has joined The Atlantic. He will cover the 2012 election as a correspondent.  For three years Lovett was a speechwriter for President Obama, writing a wide range of policy speeches and crafting the President’s jokes for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He recently left the White House to develop a TV comedy, which was bought by NBC in the fall.

In his first dispatch, he writes about PACs. See here.