Nicole Duran is executive editor of National Journal Daily. Duran began her career working for her hometown paper, the Muskegon Chronicle, in Muskegon, Mich. right after college. She spent three more years covering everything from spot news to planning boards to state and national politics for local dailies in northwestern Indiana before coming to Washington. Since 2000 she has covered Capitol Hill in various capacities. First tracking House floor votes and leadership for Congressional Quarterly and then covering the daily happenings of the House and Senate for Roll Call. After Roll Call moved to daily publication, Duran spent four years following some of the biggest House and Senate campaigns in the country. In between she developed an expertise in the financial services sector’s lobbying, regulation and federal policy. She spent two years at the American Banker reporting on the “hands off” approach banking regulators took before the financial crisis and most recently covered the federal government’s effort to reign in the industry while working for The Deal. Duran also had a robust freelance career writing for magazines, daily newspapers and political websites. Her last project was a year-long stint as the lead editor of the quarterly reports to Congress from the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Duran is a journalism graduate of Marquette University.