Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation Romesh Ratnesar is leaving his position at Bloomberg to work as a senior adviser for strategic messaging at the State Department.
Ratnesar will be reunited with Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Richard Stengel, who was his senior at Time from 2008 to 2010.
"A historian by training—[Ratnesar] has a B.A. and M.A. in history from Stanford—who helped lead journalism’s digital revolution, Romesh brings a wealth of experience in communicating about foreign affairs and great insight into the constantly shifting information space," Stengel said in a memo released Monday.
Ratnesar has written for the New Republic, Slate, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post.
The new senior adviser is just one of over 30 journalists who have left their writing professions to accept jobs within the Obama administration or on the Obama presidential campaign, according to statistics gathered by Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog group.
Ratnesar joins Richard Stengel and former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney as former Time employees to accept positions in the Obama administration.