On Tuesday, Ezra Klein, the editor-in-chief of Vox.com, a website that largely traffics in “explainers”—its Twitter profile commands readers, “Understand the news”—offered his explanation for how Donald Trump is going to lose the Republican nomination for president: “Trump could just ... not win.” Understand?
Brandon Ambrosino is a young gay internet person who stirs up controversy everywhere he points his spoon. He tends to take a contrarian position on things that many LGBT individuals and their allies hold self-evident. You aren't a homophobe if you are against gay marriage (we need a new word, he says). People who…
Three more Washington Post staffers—Brad Plumer, Sarah Kliff, and Max Fisher—are leaving the paper for Ezra Klein’s forthcoming news website at Vox Media. The trio join former Post staffers Dylan Matthews and Melissa Bell, who followed Klein to Vox in January.
Matt Yglesias, Slate's robot-like numberblogger, is reportedly joining the new media startup venture led by Ezra Klein, the robot-like former Washington Post numberblogger. Mmm. Yes. They're all together now. That will do nicely. Juicebox Mafia: Unite!
Following rumors of an imminent departure, Wonkblog creator Ezra Klein is finally leaving the Washington Post to strike out of his own. Two fellow Post staffers, Dylan Matthews and Melissa Bell, are leaving with him.
Ezra Klein may be preparing to leave the Washington Post after the Post's publisher, Katherine Weymouth, and owner, Jeff Bezos, failed to support Klein's idea for a new WaPo site dedicated to topics outside of political policy. A source told the New York Times Klein was asking for an eight-figure investment.
"I supported the Iraq War, and I'm sorry." Ezra Klein's apology is one of the less weaselly ones you'll find.
Politico's Roger Simon is depressed, for journalism has been destroyed. Not by his own Politico, though! By the fact that some liberal bloggers and professors had an off-the-record listserve, Journolist, where they would talk about politics. How will America survive?
Conservative activist or news aggregator or whatever he calls himself Andrew Breitbart wants to expose the "Democrat-Media Complex" and will pay a $100,000 bounty to whomever can get him the full archives of the private (mostly) liberal listserve, JournoList.
Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein is shuttering JournoList after leaks cost Dave Weigel his job.
Jim Cantore was muzzled by his corporate overlords; Martha Stewart was kept quiet by Neil Cavuto; and Ezra Klein was hushed in Yiddish. The Twitterati were hushed in only the most interesting ways.
Susan Orlean was insecure about her relationship with her editors; Perez Hilton was insecure about his bodily fluids and Ezra Klein was tired of listening to his own interview. The Twitterati were anxious.
A tech marketer saved his nephew; a tech writer was rescued by an ambulance. The Twitterati saw the whole thing.
