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January 27, 2014 10:50 am GMT

Popular Political Writer Ezra Klein Announces Move From Washington Post To Vox Media

Be8g75FCYAEhYkaThe political blogosphere lit up earlier today when 29-year-old Ezra Klein announced he was leaving The Washington Post to build his own news site with Vox Media (publishers of The Verge and SB Nation) . Klein quickly rose to fame in policy circles with his explainer approach to wonky policy topics and eventually grew his own team on The Post’s “Wonkblog” channel. But, tensions grew into impasse, after the The Post’s leadership, including new owner Jeff Bezos, reject Klein’s plan for a new media venture, which reportedly cost in the 8-figure range. According to Klein, in a post onThe Verge, his un-named media venture will focus on explanatory journalism and somehow be a clearing-house for information on new topics. The venture’s job-announcement webpage on Vox explains its mission, “We’ll have regular coverage of everything from tax policy to True Detective, but instead of letting that reporting gather dust in an archive, we’ll use it to build and continuously update a comprehensive set of explainers of the topics we cover. We want to create the single best resources for news consumers anywhere.” Klein further explained to The New York Times, “We really wanted to build something from the ground up that helps people understand the news better. We are not just trying to scale Wonkblog, we want to improve the technology of news, and Vox has a vision of how to solve some of that.” The one notable product that Klein built while at the Post was “Know More“, a scrollable, graph-friendly newsfeed that encouraged users to click deeper into explanations and explore their curiosity. Presumably, Klein will be building out more sophisticated versions of this product which allows readers to learn as much as they want about a topic, rather than trying to squeeze all the necessary information into the story itself, or scattered links. It’s also unknown how Klein’s “Project X” will cooperate with Vox media’s other properties, most notable, The Verge. Over the past year, The Verge has quickly expanded from tech to general news, including live coverage of the Grammy’s tonight. If Klein does, indeed, create a successful venture, it will be the second missed opportunity for The Post.The founders of Politico first proposed their hyper-political blog site to the Post before starting what is now essential reading on Capitol Hill. There was hope that when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post that he would inject so

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