- Politico, Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:51 PM
Gregg Birnbaum, the former
New York Post political editor who recently left that paper after 17 years after a widely reported newsroom spat, has signed on as a senior editor at
Politico.
He will be based in New York and concentrate on breaking news coverage, with his responsibilities expanding from there.
Birnbaum began at the NYP as a reporter covering City
Hall and the state house in Albany for eight years. He began editing in 2001, overseeing coverage of Washington and Albany as well as national, state and local campaigns. During the 2008 campaign, he
ran a Web site dedicated to Hillary Clinton.
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