Announcement from POLITICO Europe Editor-in-Chief Jamil Anderlini, POLITICO Global Editor-in-Chief John Harris, POLITICO Europe Deputy Editor-in-Chief Kate Day, POLITICO Europe Head of News Christian Oliver, and POLITICO Head of News Alex Burns:
We are excited to announce that Alistair Walker, one of the key news editors in POLITICO’s European operation, is taking on a greatly expanded role leading a transatlantic news team as Editor, Global Breaking News. This new position will help position POLITICO to deliver a sharper, livelier, more competitive report in every arena of coverage, and represents an important step toward integrating our global newsroom.
Ali is already an essential engine of POLITICO’s news report. Managing breaking news in Brussels, he leads fast-attack coverage of stories from Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats to the politics of the Olympic games; and from afar he has dipped into the U.S. presidential campaign and even American college sports. Editors across our teams — including in Washington — know he has a gift for balancing the hardest of hard news with subplots from the fun side of politics. And Ali moves with a velocity and precision we should all aspire to emulate.
For these reasons and more, we have asked him to take on a far broader mandate in the coming weeks, redesigning our breaking news coverage across all geographies and reporting to Christian Oliver, our Head of News in Europe.
