Holly Yeager, Interim Editor

Holly Yeager is the interim editor of The Washington Independent, filling the shoes of Laura McGann, who is now an editor at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. Yeager, who covered the 2008 presidential primaries for TWI, is also the Peterson Fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review, where she writes about coverage of fiscal and economic policy. Prior to her work at TWI, Yeager was a reporter and editor at the Financial Times. Her work has also appeared in The Daily Beast, The American Prospect, O: The Oprah Magazine and The Wilson Quarterly.

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Matthew DeLong, Managing Editor

Matthew DeLong co-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

Rachel Rose Hartman, Senior Researcher

Rachel Rose Hartman is the senior researcher for The Washington Independent. Hartman joined TWI after years working as a politics reporter for Congressional Quarterly. She previously served as a researcher for CQ’s political staff and worked for the San Francisco Chronicle’s D.C. bureau.

rhartman (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

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

Megan Carpentier, Guest Blogger

Megan Carpentier covers economic policy issues for The Washington Independent. Previously, she served as the Editor of News and Politics at Air America, and she has written for Jezebel.com, Foreign Policy magazine’s blog, Glamour magazine’s political blog, the Women’s Media Center, the Guardian’s Comment is Free and The Washington Post.

Julissa Treviño, Editorial Intern

Julissa Treviño recently graduated from Ithaca College, where she studied Feature Writing after first attending community college in her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. She hopes to work in independent journalism — and travel — after finishing her TWI editorial internship.

jtrevino (at) washingtonindependent (dot) com