Like me, so many of our readers wake up with City & State\u2019s First Read newsletter. And now, we\u2019ll have a new guide each morning at 7 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m happy to announce that we\u2019ve hired Shenal Tissera to join our team as a City Hall reporter, and also to compile First Read. A native of Staten Island and a double graduate of the City University of New York, Tissera left his job as a software engineer to pursue the greatest job there is: being a New York City political reporter. He interned with City & State last year, and blew us away with his doggedness and eagerness to learn, which resulted in some great stories, including a piece on whether Mayor Eric Adams did, or did not, get a colonoscopy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tissera has also written for The Lever, The City Reporter and BK Reader \u2013 but we know his heart is with City & State.\u00a0<\/p>\n City & State is also promoting Annie McDonough to city editor and Sahalie Donaldson to senior City Hall reporter. McDonough is an incredibly talented reporter and writer who has been with City & State for nearly eight years, spanning three mayoral administrations and three City Council speakers. She was born ready to lead the team. And Donaldson will finally get to sleep in later, after helming First Read for nearly four years while still covering City Hall full time, getting scoops and writing cover stories for the magazine \u2013 including this week\u2019s on the low-key man who could be the next leader of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019m incredibly excited to see our revamped City Hall team work together. And I\u2019m proud to say that, like Tissera, and like me, McDonough and Donaldson both also started at City & State as interns. Our summer interns this year, Fariha Rahman and Chantal Mann, have done amazing work. You may see them in these pages again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like me, so many of our readers wake up with City & State\u2019s First Read newsletter. And now,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6492,9,24,11,10,299],"class_list":["post-322989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-editors-note","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}