Posts Tagged ‘The Upshot’

Laura Rozen Leaves Politico for Yahoo! News, to Start The Envoy Foreign-Policy Blog

Politico chief foreign-policy writer Laura Rozen is stamping her passport for Yahoo! News, coming on board as its senior foreign-affairs reporter, based in its Washington, D.C., bureau. She will also launch The Envoy, a blog focused on foreign policy.

Yahoo! executive editor of North American audiences Dave Morgan said:

The addition of Laura to The Upshot team is another example of how the Yahoo! News blogs have established themselves not only as a home to one of the industry’s largest audiences, but also a magnet for the industry’s best talent.

Yahoo! Snags Former Talking Points Memo Blogger Zachary Roth for The Upshot

Former Talking Points Memo lead investigative blogger Zachary Roth joined Yahoo! as a senior national affairs blogger for news blog The Upshot, which launched in July.

Roth has been contributing to outlets including The Daily Beast and the Los Angeles Times. Prior to Talking Points Memo, he served as an editor at Washington Monthly and a reporter for Columbia Journalism Review.