EDITORS
Robert A. Rankin
Government & Politics Editor
E-mail Robert at rrankin@mcclatchydc.com
Robert A. Rankin is the editor overseeing government and politics coverage, as well as national and international economics. He joined the Knight Ridder Washington bureau in 1987, covering economics and later the Clinton White House. He became an editor in 2000.
Before he joined the bureau, Rankin wrote editorials for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald, where he shared in a Pulitzer Prize. He broke into journalism in 1972 as a reporter for The Richmond News Leader and later covered energy policy for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C.
He was a Bagehot Fellow in economics journalism at Columbia University. He holds an M.A. in government from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in political science from Randolph-Macon College.
EDITORS
- Beryl Adcock
- News Desk Chief
- James Asher
- Investigative Editor
- Mike Bold
- Regional Editor
- Gina Falcone-Rupp
- Web Editor
- Roy Gutman
- Foreign Editor
- Robert A. Rankin
- Government & Politics Editor
- Mark Seibel
- Managing Editor Online
- Curtis Tate
- Night Editor
- Jim Van Nostrand
- Web Editor
- John Walcott
- Bureau Chief
- Tish Wells
- Web Editor
NATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS
- Chris Adams
- Investigative
- Shashank Bengali
- National
- Robert S. Boyd
- Science & Technology
- William Douglas
- Congress
- Greg Gordon
- Investigative
- Kevin G. Hall
- Economics
- Jonathan S. Landay
- National Security
- David Lightman
- Congress
- Tony Pugh
- Consumer Economics
- Renee Schoof
- Environment
- Warren P. Strobel
- Foreign Affairs & the State Department
- Margaret Talev
- White House
- Marisa Taylor
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- Steven Thomma
- White House
- Nancy Youssef
- Pentagon
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS
- Hannah Allam
- Cairo
- Tim Johnson
- On leave
- Tom Lasseter
- Beijing
- Dion Nissenbaum
- Kabul
REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS
- Halimah Abdullah
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- Barbara Barrett
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- Washington state newspapers
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- Rob Hotakainen
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- Maria Recio
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