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The Washington Post recruits a highly regarded feature writer and assigns a former New Republic editor to the Supreme Court beat.

Washington Post update: Highly regarded feature writer Anne Hull leaves the St. Petersburg Times for the Post's national desk, and Charles Lane , who has been penning editorials for the paper, takes the Supreme Court beat. Hull, 39, said a difficult goodbye to St. Pete after 16 years at the paper. She calls her new job, where she'll write enterprise and feature-type articles, "a terrific opportunity to tell stories from Washington." Lane, who was editor of The New Republic from 1997 to '99, says that an earlier yearlong Knight Foundation Fellowship at Yale Law School piqued his interest in the court. Plus, he wanted to do more reporting. "I've been doing opinion for a long time," says Lane, who did so for the Post for six months, "always with a strong element of reporting. There's a part of me that wanted to go straight and do the news." He succeeds Joan Biskupic , who walks the same beat for USA Today.