Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who was embedded
with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has taken a job
with the Obama administration, according to an email sent to a
listserv of his classmates at the Columbia University's Graduate
School of Journalism.
The email, written by Time reporter and fellow Columbia
grad Jay
Newton-Small, said Briscoe would be serving as deputy
associate director of public affairs for the Office of National
Drug Control Policy as of Monday.
"Despite his multiple basketball games with our
commander-in-chief, he always brought a skeptical eye to his work
and in conversations about the candidate," Newton-Small wrote the
email.
Briscoe's campaign reporting helped provide the basis for
Newsweek's
book on the campaign, A Long Time Coming.
I received the email because Briscoe graduated Columbia's
journalism school in 2001, the same year as I did.
