New York Times Reporter Patrick Healy Will Leave Theatre for Politics

It was just announced that New York Times theatre reporter Patrick Healy, will soon trade in Broadway for Washington as a NYT National Political Correspondent. NYT's Washington Bureau chief and Political Editor Carolyn Ryan writes:

Folks,

I am delighted to tell you that Patrick Healy is joining our outstanding presidential campaign team as a national political correspondent.

Patrick is an uncommonly gifted reporter, supple writer and journalistic innovator whose career has taken him from Dover, N.H., to Afghanistan, Iraq, two presidential campaigns and the star-crossed production of Spider-Man on Broadway.

His groundbreaking coverage of theater has perceptively examined Broadway through the lens of culture and business, and he has traveled the globe capturing theater trends, personalities and emerging talents.

Patrick will work closely with Jonathan Martin, our deeply talented and insightful national political correspondent who is helping to lead our election coverage.

In 2008, Patrick covered the presidential race, focusing on Hillary Clinton's 18-month campaign. Before that, he was the New York political correspondent, writing extensively about Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo, Michael Bloomberg, and then-Senator Clinton.

An elegant and prodigious writer, Patrick was among the first Times reporters to seize on the possibilities of the web, working with Gerry Mullany to establish the first New York political blog for nytimes.com.

Prior to coming to the Times, Patrick was a reporter for The Boston Globe, where he covered the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and higher education. He was one of two finalists for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for his higher education coverage and received The Livingston Award in 2001 for his Globe series on Harvard honors and grade inflation.

Patrick grew up on the South Shore of Massachusetts, in Scituate, and graduated from Tufts University.

Please join me in welcoming Patrick to a spectacularly talented election team.

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