Sudeep Reddy, a veteran of Politico and The Wall Street Journal, will be MSNBC‘s first Washington, D.C. bureau chief as the network is spun off from parent NBCUniversal and Comcast later this year.
The D.C. bureau will at the Hall of States building, the same complex where NBC News is now. But the network said that it will be separate from the broadcast outlet, which will no longer be a sister network.
In a memo to staffers, Scott Matthews, the senior VP of newsgathering for MSNBC, wrote that Reddy “will lead our Washington team to focus not just on the happenings inside Washington but also on how decisions in the capital will impact people across the nation and around the world.”
Reddy will start on June 16. He most recently has been senior managing editor of Politico, leading a staff of 150 journalists. He previously was at The Wall Street Journal, including as an economics editor in D.C. directing coverage of U.S. and international economic news. He also is on on-air contributor for American Public Media’s Marketplace for the past 15 years.
Matthews wrote that while at Politico, Reddy “launched dozens of new products, including newsletters, podcasts, live events and digital offerings; guided strategy and operations for Politico Playbook during the first Trump administration; and built the newsroom’s first audio team from the ground up.” Reddy will report to Matthews and work with Erin Zimmerman, vice president of newsgathering.
Matthews plans to hired more than 100 journalists as MSNBC builds a newsroom. The team of correspondents will include those covering the White House, Capitol Hill, the State Department, the Justice Department and the Supreme Court.
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