Jimmy Vielkind is an American Journalist based in Albany, New York.

He is Albany bureau chief for POLITICO.

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Vielkind graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor's degree in Urban studies in 2007.

He went on to attend SUNY Albany receiving a Master's degree in urban and regional planning in 2012.

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He has been reporting on state government and politics since 2008, first as a correspondent for the New York Observer and later for the Albany Times Union.

^[1]Vielkind also covered breaking news and Brooklyn for the New York Daily News while a college student, and spent his first year after graduation as the nighttime police reporter for the Times Union Center.

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At POLITICO, Vielkind coordinates the largest bureau at the Capitol and reports and writes articles and analyses state politics.

He has been a regular contributor to POLITICO New York's magazine and a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including public broadcasting's New York Now, WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, WCBS 880-AM and Time Warner Cable News' Capital Tonight.

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He lives with his wife and two daughters in New York.

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