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Ezra Klein and the problem with top-down control
Ezra Klein This commentary was published earlier at the Nieman Journalism Lab. What should a 21st-century news organization look like? A single entity, run from the top, with a common set of values? Or...
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A big hire for the Globe — and an intriguing idea
This may not be an exact analogy, but it looks like The Boston Globe is thinking in terms of networks. The paper just announced a major hire — John Allen, who covers the Vatican for the National...
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Ezra Klein has left the building
To no one’s surprise, Ezra Klein, founder and editor of the popular Wonkblog, is leaving The Washington Post along with two other journalists in order to launch a new venture. Andrew Beaujon of Poynter...
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Volokh’s ‘joint venture’ points toward a new model
David Carr has the details of Wonkblog founder Ezra Klein’s new venture. I recently argued in the Nieman Journalism Lab that legacy news organizations like The Washington Post should find ways of...
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Washington Post to expand staff and ambitions
Marty Baron (2009 file photo) The Washington Post faced a lot of questions after Ezra Klein packed up and took his talents to Vox Media. Were Jeff Bezos and company making a Politico-level mistake in...
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Some thoughts about the meltdown of The New Republic
I don’t have much to offer on the meltdown of The New Republic except for a few inchoate thoughts. Many people have written many things, but it seems to me that the one essential read is Lloyd Grove’s...
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