Luke Broadwater, a journalist who has reported on local and state politics at The Sun for most of the last decade, is leaving the city’s daily newspaper to cover Congress for The New York Times.
Broadwater, who wrote the first in a series of stories on former Mayor Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly” scandal that earned the paper a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year, says he starts at the Times’ D.C. bureau on June 8, joining a team of four other reporters covering Capitol Hill.
He will start as communities across the country grapple with unrest in response to the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd after a police officer kneeled on his neck, and as the federal government considers a second round of stimulus in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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