According to the New York Times, JournoList founder and Wonkblog editor Ezra Klein is preparing to leave the Washington Post to start his own site. The Times reports that Klein “put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy,” but the Post’s publisher as well as its owner (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos) declined to fund it.
@LoganStLouis my entire twitter feed is about how Ezra Klein might be leaving the Washington Post…
— Trevor Knight (@tknight923) January 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/ScottyBurberry/status/418943772857475072
https://twitter.com/john_carbone/status/418940363647508480
Mad scramble as the entire journalism industry retools itself to incorporate "explanations" into its product.
Ezra Klein, last laugh.
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) January 3, 2014
Unable to sell "explanatory journalism" to the masses, Ezra Klein moves laterally to consulting, advises politicians to be more political.
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) January 3, 2014
I assume Ezra Klein is launching a website for "explanatory journalism" so that people will finally explain to him how journalism works
— Dan O'Sullivan (@Bro_Pair) January 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/tumbyMe/status/418939088872296448
Apparently 8 figures was not enough for someone to give Ezra Klein to explain the Constitution as ancient history.
— Brad Cundiff (@bradcundiff) January 3, 2014
Why Ezra Klein should leave the Post, in one graph: *calculator display 58008 turned upside down*
— Chuckleberry Finn (@coryharris) January 3, 2014
Amazon drone hovering outside Ezra Klein's window. Watching.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 3, 2014
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