Nancy Cleeland covered labor for the Times and shared in the Pulitzer for coverage of WalMart's global impact. She writes about her latest life turn today at the Huffington Post.

Six months ago, I took a buyout from a shrinking Los Angeles Times and wrote about it here. I didn't know what would come next. Certainly, I couldn't have predicted where that step would take me.

Now I'm across the country at an influential Washington D.C. think tank -- the Economic Policy Institute -- puzzling over how to pour two decades of newspaper experience into a new job of translating economic research and policy for a broad audience.

I'll still be writing. And in time, I hope to add context to the numbers coming from EPI's staff Ph.D.s with street reporting, just like the old days. But there's a key difference: My writing now will be unabashedly informed by a point of view.

Previously:
LAT and the labor beat
LAT takes five Pulitzers
Delta Street II