Josh Wood, a Louisville-based journalist will join the Courier Journal’s enterprise and investigations team. His tweet reads:

“Super excited to be part of such a talented staff. And super excited to start digging into stories that matter to Louisville.”

Previously, Wood was a staff writer at Louisville-based newspaper The Leo Weekly. He freelanced for The Washington Post, The Guardian, Louisville Magazine, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Christian Science Monitor and The Independent.

He also served as a Middle East correspondent at The National and as a correspondent covering western North Dakota’s oil boom and its impact for the Associated Press.

Wood has a B.A. from The George Washington University.

You can congratulate Wood on Twitter.