Steve Heuser, world expertise editor at Politico, despatched out the next to the workers on Friday:
As POLITICO’s new world expertise crew takes form on a number of fronts, we’re happy to announce two thrilling strikes — the primary of a number of you’ll see within the coming months as we construct on our dominant standing in core tech coverage protection whereas additionally increasing our world ambitions.
The primary observe right here is lengthy overdue: Benton Ives has taken on a brand new position as deputy expertise editor. A lot of Benton from his time as a POLITICO Congress editor from 2015 to 2017, or from his part-time modifying stints on the evening desk after he returned to the U.S. after a number of years traipsing by world capitals. With a deep, under-the-fingernails grasp of Hill dynamics, a really collegial mindset and a driving mental curiosity concerning the new dynamics of energy in America, Benton has already confirmed a giant asset to our increasing protection of tech and energy. This fall he helped steer our Twitter protection and crucially captained our almost 24/7 monitoring of how main tech coverage points fared by the madcap D.C. omnibus session.
Earlier than becoming a member of POLITICO, Benton held varied roles at CQ Roll Name, together with editor-in-chief of the CQ Weekly journal and director of authorized and regulatory merchandise. He labored his manner up at CQ from editorial assistant to economics editor, interrupted by a stint at Dow Jones as a reporter protecting the U.S. Treasury Division and Federal Reserve. Benton lives in Carmel, Indiana (trivia query: who’s the opposite member of Politico’s two-person Carmel bureau?), along with his spouse and two youngsters. He spends a superb little bit of his time ferrying his children to soccer and volleyball tournaments throughout the Midwest, and when he’s bought time for himself, it’s a superb wager you’ll discover him on the golf course or down at Indy Metropolis Barbell, engaged on geriatric variations of the snatch and clear and jerk.
The second is a crucial beat change you’ll see within the coming weeks: Brendan Bordelon, creator of our must-read Morning Tech publication, will tackle a brand new position as our Tech Affect reporter, the place he’ll spearhead POLITICO’s rising protection of the business’s extensive and deep affect on American politics and coverage.
In only a 12 months authoring Morning Tech, Brendan has reworked the publication into the unquestioned must-read publication on the intersection of tech and Washington, bringing his relentless reporting metabolism and authoritative learn of the coverage panorama to influential inboxes day after day. Brendan got here to POLITICO in January 2022 from Nationwide Journal, the place he spent greater than 4 years protecting the interaction of tech coverage, politics and energy. At this time his newsletters push the boundaries of the shape, typically rolling two or three totally conceived and scoopy storylines right into a single version.
His enterprise journalism has already well challenged the Washington consensus: Over the summer time, as official D.C. crowed over passage of the CHIPS and Science Act this summer time, he wrote an A1 site lede about how efforts to revive America’s tech-industrial base will fizzle with out key immigration reforms, and why Capitol Hill is unlikely to get there anytime quickly. Amid the autumn frenzy about Twitter and Washington, he wrote maybe probably the most incisive story printed wherever on how little Elon Musk actually has to worry from Congress.
In his new position, Brendan can be working with the tech crew in addition to throughout the newsroom, and throughout the Atlantic, to inform the largest tales about how the facility gamers within the tech business are shaping coverage and politics — and vice-versa. World expertise is one in all POLITICO’s focused development areas for 2023, and Brendan will dwell within the middle of the story. He’ll transfer into the brand new position as quickly as we will fill his (massive) sneakers within the publication job (which has been posted here). Brendan lives along with his spouse in D.C., and — as anybody who reads MT can attest — is an avid canine dad to Rudy and a rotating forged of foster canine.
These strikes come as we’ve simply launched a brand new POLITICO Tech restricted podcast collection – a deep dive into the darkest a part of the web, developed by our sharp audio crew and reported and hosted by POLITICO fellow Mohar Chatterjee. (Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts.) And this week, we’re offering a really completely different – and really POLITICO – tackle the tech business’s annual summit, CES, with particular editions of Digital Future Daily, dwell from the scene.
We’ll have extra bulletins within the coming weeks, however for now please be part of us in congratulating Benton and Brendan on their new roles.
