Laura McGann, Editor

Laura McGann is a former reporter-blogger at Talking Points Memo. She has also worked for the Dow Jones newswire, where her bankruptcy reporting was picked up by The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press. McGann is a former News21 Knight Foundation fellow and holds masters degrees from the Medill School of Journalism and the Northwestern University Law School. A story McGann broke about an anti-terrorism data mining program run by the Department of Education and the FBI was inspiration for her dog’s name, FOIA.

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Matthew DeLong, Managing Editor

Matthew DeLong edits TWI’s staff blog, The Independent Streak. DeLong worked the McCain beat for TWI from Arizona and aboard the McCain plane in 2008. He has previously reported for the Arizona Daily Sun and KNAU Arizona Public Radio in Flagstaff, as well as Campaigns & Elections (now Politics) magazine in Arlington, Va.

mdelong (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

Aaron Wiener, Assistant Editor

Aaron Wiener co-edits The Independent Streak and handles the behind-the-scenes work that improves the site’s functionality and brings new readers into the fold. He also reports and blogs on energy and the environment. When not glued to a screen, he plays harmonica and rhythm guitar for the folk-blues duo The Mustard Boys.

awiener (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

Spencer Ackerman, National Security Reporter

Spencer Ackerman is national security correspondent for The Washington Independent. He has reported for Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect and The New Republic.

sackerman (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

Daphne Eviatar, Law Reporter

Daphne Eviatar is an award-winning journalist and a lawyer who covers legal issues for The Washington Independent. A former Alicia Patterson fellow and Pew International Journalism fellow, her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Nation and many others. She’s been interviewed widely on radio and television, including on The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC), Al Jazeera (English), and WNYC Public Radio (Brian Lehrer and Leonard Lopate Shows).

deviatar (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

Mary Kane, Economy Reporter

Mary Kane covers the economy for The Washington Independent. She is a business writer whose work has appeared in Salon, The Washington Post, Politico, The Newark Star-Ledger and other publications. She covered finance for Newhouse News Service in Washington for 11 years. She lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband and three children.

mkane (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

Mike Lillis, Congress Reporter

Mike Lillis follows Congress for The Washington Independent. Previously, he has covered health care policy with Inside Washington Publishers, and served as Washington correspondent for Iowa’s Waterloo Courier. He lives in Washington.

mlillis (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

David Weigel, Politics Reporter

David Weigel is a reporter covering the conservative movement for The Washington Independent, and a contributing editor of Reason. His work has appeared in The American Prospect, The American Conservative, The American Spectator, The Guardian, Politico, and The Economist.

dweigel (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

Lazar Backovic, Editorial Intern

Lazar Backovic is an international student from Bremen, Germany and editorial intern for TWI. He is currently studying at American University in Washington. In Germany, Lazar works as a freelancer with Deutsche Presse-Agentur, a German news wire service, where he covers local news and politics.

lbackovic (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com

Graham Moomaw, Web Intern

Graham Moomaw is a graduate student at University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a Web intern for TWI. Graham came to the D.C. area from Lynchburg, Va., and hopes to cover civil liberties in Washington after graduating in May 2010.

gmoomaw (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com