In addition to being a fast-growing and award-winning media company over the past two decades, City & State has been a great training ground for political journalists and media executives. This week, we celebrate the accomplishments of the former and current journalists who have helped build City & State\u2019s strong reputation for nonpartisan reporting.<\/p>\n
Edward-Isaac Dovere, the founding editor of City Hall newspaper (a predecessor to City & State), is now a prominent national political reporter at CNN. He had successful tenures at Politico and The Atlantic and is the author of \u201cBattle for the Soul,\u201d a behind-the-scenes look at the Democrats\u2019 frantic campaign to take back the White House in 2020.<\/p>\n
Other City & State editors and reporters have gone on to successful careers in political media, communications and film documentaries. David Freedlander is a regular political features writer at New York magazine. Andrew Hawkins is the transportation editor at The Verge. Laura Nahmias covers politics for Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n
Adam Lisberg, who helped launch City & State\u2019s flagship First Read newsletter in 2011, is now senior vice president of external communications for Veolia North America\u2019s municipal water business, after a successful stint as the head spokesperson at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.<\/p>\n
Morgan Pehme, the editor at City & State who oversaw City & State\u2019s groundbreaking coverage of the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, is now a successful documentary filmmaker. His Netflix doc \u201cGet Me Roger Stone\u201d in 2017 gained widespread acclaim because the film was released during Donald Trump\u2019s first term and Stone was a big player in the successful 2016 Trump campaign.<\/p>\n
Other key alumni from City & State\u2019s history include Steve Farbman, former co-owner and CEO of City & State; Darren Bloch, a prominent nonprofit leader and former de Blasio administration official; Andrew Holt, a local political consultant; Ralph R. Ortega, vice president of public affairs at O\u2019Donnell & Associates; and Guillaume Federighi, owner of the Hey Gee Studio.<\/p>\n
All these alumni, and many others, have set the stage for City & State\u2019s current team of 35 full-time employees in New York to grow the media company into the powerful force it has become in New York City and state\u2019s political and media ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to being a fast-growing and award-winning media company over the past two decades, City & State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[72903,9,24,49,63,299,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-354449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-20th-anniversary","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354449","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=354449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}