Blake Hounshell, an influential political journalist who was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a top editor at Politico before joining The New York Times and overseeing its popular newsletter \u201cOn Politics,\u201d died on Tuesday in Washington. He was 44.<\/p>\n
His family said in a statement that he had died \u201cafter a long and courageous battle with depression.\u201d The police in Washington were investigating the death as a suicide, a police official said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Hounshell, who joined The Times in 2021, wrote \u201cOn Politics\u201d out of Washington, incorporating contributions from other Times correspondents. The newsletter appears five days a week and is regularly read by an estimated half-million paying subscribers.<\/p>\n
Mr. Hounshell \u201cquickly distinguished himself as our lead politics newsletter writer and a gifted observer of our country\u2019s political scene,\u201d Joseph Kahn, the Times\u2019s executive editor, said in a memo to the staff, adding, \u201cHe became an indispensable and always insightful voice in the report during a busy election cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n