George Hager

GEORGE HAGER joined the USA Today editorial board in July 2006 after serving as USA TODAY’s White House editor from 2005-2006. From 2002-2005 he was the paper’s defense and foreign policy editor, supervising coverage of the Defense Department, the State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies. From 1999-2002, he was an economics reporter for the paper, covering the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, the Treasury Department, domestic economic trends and international lending organizations. He previously covered economics for The Washington Post and served as a senior writer and editor at Congressional Quarterly. In 1998-99, he was an economics writer with The Washington Post. In 1988-98, he was a reporter, senior writer and finally an editor at Congressional Quarterly. He was the 1996 winner of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress.