Reuters expands US national affairs team

Jason Szep (photo), Pulitzer Prize-winning US national affairs editor, told colleagues in an internal announcement: “I’m pleased to announce three appointments as we begin to build a U.S. National Affairs team with a mission to deepen Reuters coverage on U.S. national issues. As much as possible, this team will work closely with reporters and visual teams across the country and the globe on stories that cut across a range of beats - from general news and corporate investigations to richly reported stories on the intersection of politics and economics.”

• Peter Eisler joins from USA Today where he has spent the past 20 years as an award-winning investigative reporter. He starts next week in Washington.
• Kristina Cooke, another award-winner who joined Reuters in London in 2005, will become a member of the national affairs team after four years as an investigative correspondent with Reuters’ US enterprise team. Formerly with CNN, she will continue to be based in San Francisco.
• Tim Reid joins the team after three years of covering economics, municipal finance and general news in Los Angeles and a political correspondent posting in Washington. He joined Reuters in 2010 from The Times where he was Washington correspondent for eight years and a foreign correspondent prior to that. He will remain in Los Angeles.