From: Bumiller, Elisabeth Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:06 AM Subject: New beats and arrivals in Washington To: NYHQ-washburo "Wong, Grace", Katie Rogers, Lara Jakes

All,

As the Trump administration approaches, we've been expanding our coverage in the Washington Bureau. Here are some exciting new arrivals and changes to the team:

Yamiche Alcindor joins us from Politics to cover social safety net issues and how Trump administration policies will affect everyday lives. She’ll be reporting on housing, poverty, hunger, welfare and urban development. During the 2016 campaign, Yamiche covered Bernie Sanders, some of the Trump campaign and also wrote many enterprise stories, including a prescient one about Obama voters who were casting their ballots for Trump. Before coming to The Times she worked at USA Today, where she covered Ferguson, the Boston marathon bombings, the George Zimmerman trial and the school shootings in Newtown, Conn.

Jeremy Peters is rejoining the bureau after a hiatus during the campaign. He'll be covering conservatives and their ascendancy, including how they integrate emboldened populists into their ranks. During the campaign, Jeremy covered Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, delegates and then the demographic and regional trends shaping the race. He first arrived in the bureau after the 2012 presidential election, when he moved from New York to cover the Hill. He did that for two years, taking on some of the defining stories of that time, including the 2013 government shutdown. He’s been with the paper ten years now, including stops in Biz Day, Albany and Media.

Gardiner Harris will be moving from the White House to the State Department beat, where he will work with David Sanger (who will also be covering nuclear issues and cyber). Gardiner covered the last years of the Obama White House, including President Obama’s trip to Hiroshima. Gardiner was also known for his creative pool reports. Before covering the White House, Gardiner was a Times correspondent in New Delhi, where he wrote about India's sanitation crisis and air pollution and took a great deal of video. Before India, Gardiner made his home in the Washington Bureau, where he broke multiple stories on the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry and fed us Krispy Kremes each Friday.

Matt Rosenberg is covering the C.I.A. and the other intelligence agencies after covering the Pentagon and the State Department. He joined The Times from The Wall Street Journal in 2011, and he covered Afghanistan until he was expelled from the country three years later. Matt exposed how the C.I.A. made monthly cash drops for more than a decade at the office of President Hamid Karzai, and he covered Afghanistan's first international boxing match, which he christened the Squabble in Kabul.

Michael Gordon jumps from State back to the Pentagon, where he joins the irrepressible Helene Cooper on the beat. Michael has covered seven wars from the field - - the current fight against the Islamic State, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Russian intervention in Chechnya, Kosovo, the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the invasion of Panama. He’s the co- author of three books on the United States’ conflicts in Iraq: “The Generals’ War,” “Cobra 2,” and “The Endgame.”

Alan Rappeport is moving over from Politics to cover the Treasury Department and economic policy. During the campaign he focused on breaking news, live events and features on subjects like the Libertarians, the struggle of Mormons in Utah to come to terms with Donald Trump and why young feminists were wary of Hillary Clinton. Alan joined The Times in April 2014 to anchor the First Draft newsletter and news feed ahead of the midterms. Before joining The Times, Alan worked for five years at the Financial Times covering the economy, health care and American consumers. Prior to that, Alan worked in London for The Economist, where he was a Marjorie Deane fellow.

Katie Rogers will be joining us for the next few months from the Express Team in New York to cover Trump inaugural parties and other cultural zeitgeist of the Trump era. On the Express Team, she's focused on breaking news stories of all types plus the occasional feature for Culture and Styles, including her recent story about the Evancho sisters and the continuing saga of The Rockettes and the inaugural. Katie joined The Times in 2014 from The Guardian's New York office. Before that, she worked on The Washington Post's Metro desk.

And, far from least, Lara Jakes starts today as Washington night editor, Sharon LaFraniere starts in the bureau today as part of the Washington investigations team and Peter Baker is back from Jerusalem on the White House beat.

Please join us in congratulating and welcoming everyone.

Elisabeth