The Revolving Door

Josh Drobnyk, Washington correspondent for Tribune's The Morning Call has landed a gig with Rep. Chris Carney (D-Pa.) Today is his last day at the paper.

Drobnyk announced that he was moving on via email this morning:

Friends in the fourth estate- I'm off to begin a new career Monday, working on the other side of the divide for U.S. Rep. Chris Carney. It's been a great three years covering politics down here for the Morning Call and working alongside a terrific crew of reporters. Been a lot of fun getting to know everyone. The good news for the Pa. press corps is that the paper's going to fill the job, so treat my successor well. And go easy on my new boss - he's a terrific guy. Today's my last day at the paper.

Benton Ives has been promoted to an editing position at CQ. Though it's not being advertised that way, it sounds like it was Brian Nutting's job.

FishbowlDC obtained John Dineen's memo announcing Ives' promotion:

Folks - I am very pleased to announce that Benton Ives will be joining our team of legislative action editors later this month. Most recently, Benton has demonstrated his exceptional talents as a writer and reporter through his coverage of the banking and financial services beat for CQ. This is Benton's second tour of duty here: He returned in 2007, after spending more than a year covering finance for the Dow Jones Newswire. During an earlier four-year stint at CQ, Benton worked as a committees and floor votes reporter - experiences that no doubt will come in handy as an editor for our action team - and reported for CQ Homeland Security. Please join me in congratulating Benton on his promotion.

jd

John Dineen Executive Editor for Publications Congressional Quarterly CQ-Roll Call Group

Veteran reporter and "Suspicious Package" heartthrob, Tim Burger is a free agent. FishbowlDC confirmed that Burger resigned from his post at Bloomberg News, earlier this week. Sources at Bloomberg told us that they were "surprised by his resignation" and that "he will be missed."

No word on T-Burg's life after Bloomberg yet but we've heard rumblings that he's temporarily turning his attentions to a book deal, his band and his babe - Politico's Kiki Ryan.

Emily Miller's new gossip column, "Emily's Post" launched on PoliticsDaily.com today. Miller, who's held gigs with ABC, NBC, for Condoleeza Rice, Tom DeLay, Rick Lazio and Colin Powell addresses her past in the press as well as the ongoing drama surrounding her reputation as a "woman scorned" in the Jack Abramoff scandal in her debut column.

"Having been fodder for every gossip column in town, starting today I'm turning the tables -- and becoming one D.C. gossip columnist who fully gets what it's like to be on the receiving end," Miller says in her premier post.

Check out "Emily's Post" here.

Veteran reporter Fred Schulte has joined the Huffington Post Investigative Fund as a senior reporter. Schulte took a buyout last fall from the Baltimore Sun, where his 2007 project on an obscure Baltimore "ground rent" system brought his fourth Pulitzer Prize nomination.

The Atlantic has hired Breda O'Reilly as digital ad manager. Previously strategic account executive with Microsoft Advertising, O'Reilly joins The Atlantic during a period of "vigorous online expansion and innovation."

The Atlantic says its website currently averages 3 million unique visitors and 16 million pageviews per month.

Executive Editor of National Geographic Tim Appenzeller is moving to London to take a role at Nature magazine. Managing Editor Victoria Pope will move into his position beginning this Monday.

Deputy Publisher of TalkingPointsMemo, Andrew Golis is making a move to Yahoo. Golis, who has been at TPM for three years, posted the announcement on his personal blog yesterday:

I've accepted an amazing offer from Yahoo to build, staff and run a new news blog. It will be a combination of curation and original reporting, with gregarious linking and sharp, smart writing. In other words, for the folks who read this site for meta journalism news, I'm going to be building a team to bring the most popular news site in the United States into the news link economy.

Now this a real revolving door...

Carrie Dann went from NBC to Congress Daily and now is going back to NBC's Washington bureau as a political editor with msnbc.com.

She'll be celebrating the move with friends and colleagues tonight and starts with msnbc.com Monday.

A memo from USA Today's Carol Stevens announced today that the paper has hired the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Alison Young as a new health reporter.

Alison is the president of "Investigative Reporters and Editors" and has worked for the Detroit Free Press, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, Arizona Republic and Dallas Times Herald.

Memo after the jump.

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