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.
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Apparently 8 figures was not enough for someone to give Ezra Klein to explain the Constitution as ancient history.
— Pouncing Coder Brad (@bradcundiff) January 3, 2014
Why Ezra Klein should leave the Post, in one graph: *calculator display 58008 turned upside down*
— Cory (@Grade_A_Moron) January 3, 2014
Amazon drone hovering outside Ezra Klein's window. Watching.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 3, 2014
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