Ezra Klein announced Sunday he was launching a new news website with the D.C.-based internet media company Vox Media.
Klein, who rose to fame with his popular and influential Wonkblog at the Washington Post, made the big switch after weeks of speculation of where the wunderkind writer would wind up next.
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“Early last year, Melissa Bell, Matt Yglesias and I began wrestling with a question that had bugged all of us for a long time: why hadn’t the Internet made the news better at delivering crucial context alongside new information?” Klein wrote in a posting on Vox.