Mediagazer: Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself (David Carr/New York Times)

11:35 AM ET, January 27, 2014

Top News:

Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself — After a week of speculation, it turns out that Ezra Klein, the prolific creator of The Washington Post's Wonkblog, will be going to Vox Media, the online home of SB Nation, a sports site, and The Verge, a fast-growing technology site.

Ezra Klein / The Verge:

Ezra Klein and crew to start new Vox Media publication — Vox is our next — 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?

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Q&A: Ezra Klein Promises “A Completely Different Product” — “This is not just Wonkblog.” — This evening, after weeks of speculation, Ezra Klein announced he'll be founding a new media publication at Vox Media, home to SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, and the recently acquired Curbed Media network.

Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York, @cwarzel, @summeranne, @jayrosen_nyu, @fmanjoo, @sdkstl, @fmanjoo, New York Magazine and Talking Biz News

Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:

The Washington Post tried to launch a venture like Ezra Klein's 15 years ago — Some Context on Ezra Klein's “News Site/Encyclopedia” Concept — It appears that the big project that led Wonkblog proprietor Ezra Klein to bolt The Washington Post for VoxMedia is to “build the world's …

Discussion: Washington Post, FishbowlNY, @millie, @pottsmark, @khanoisseur, Business Insider and @jayrosen_nyu

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

Al Jazeera America to get prime new channel space — As it prepares to launch a new marketing campaign, Al Jazeera America will be getting some prime new channel placement for Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York. — Tomorrow, January 28, AJAM will be moving from channel 181 …

Discussion: Poynter, Politico, @felixsalmon, @brianstelter and @tmcgev

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Prominent NYT news stories “go too far in the direction of interpretation, analysis and elaborate writing” — 'Just the Facts, Ma'am' No More — IT'S a Monday morning in mid-January. Your print edition of The Times is at hand, along with your coffee. You scan it for news.

Discussion: @lachlan, @laureni, The Public Editor's Journal, @byronyork, @jayrosen_nyu, @rsingel, @fmanjoo, @mathewi, @fmanjoo, @brithume and @raju

WashPost PR:

National Journal Executive Editor Adam Kushner joins Washington Post to lead new opinion and analysis site — Adam Kushner to lead new digital opinion venture — Announcement from Executive Editor Marty Baron, Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt and Outlook Editor Carlos Lozada:

Discussion: Capital New York, Politico, @mattyglesias, @adambkushner, @mlcalderone and @max_fisher

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

For some, Twitter is becoming less about relevancy and more about one-liners — Valley of the Blahs: How Justin Bieber's Troubles Exposed Twitter's Achilles' Heel — At some point, Twitter and the rest of social media became less about wanting to share the news and more about wanting to be the news.

Discussion: Gigaom, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, @gaberivera, @escarry, @caseynewton, @jsnell, @passantino, The Verge, @cschweitz, SocialTimes, @raju, @mikeisaac, @laurengoode and The Next Web

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

New York Post names David Brinker as President, announces record web traffic — Eyeing digital growth, New York Post names new president — The New York Post has added a digital strategist from its parent company to the paper's executive ranks while announcing a new milestone …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Politico:

MSNBC to launch new daytime schedule, Ronan Farrow to host at 1 p.m. — Following the 2014 Winter Olympics, MSNBC will introduce a new daytime programming schedule that will see Ronan Farrow, its newest talent, hosting at 1 p.m. ET and Joy Reid, a longtime guest host, at 2 p.m. ET.

Discussion: TVNewser

Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

When ‘Long-Form’ Is Bad Form — LAST week, the sports and pop culture website Grantland published a story called “Dr. V's Magical Putter” — a piece of “long-form,” as we now call multi-thousand-word, narrative-driven reported articles — about a woman named Essay Anne Vanderbilt …

Discussion: Marco.org, @palafo, Reliable Sources, bookforum.com, @jonathanmahler, @sternbergh, @saramorrison, @buzzfeedben, @adamklaff, @leshinton, @glennf, @jasonschreier, Gawker and Nieman Storyboard

Ben Smith / Medium:
What The Longform Backlash Is All About — Taking the best of the magazine craft online.

Discussion: @buzzfeedben, @yahel, Nieman Storyboard, @patrickcdoyle, @jessepesta, @tcarmody, @markhor, @peretti, @ezraklein, @michaelluo, @jayrosen_nyu, @mattapuzzo, @ryanlawler, @carr2n, @brianstelter and @adambvary

Paul Sandle / Reuters:

Vice Media links up with Greek TV broadcaster Antenna — Vice Media, the producer of video reportage targeting the so-called Generation Y of twentysomethings who do not watch much conventional television, is tying up with Greek television broadcaster Antenna Group.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Dan Evans first journalist to plead guilty to hacking phones at newspaper other than NOTW — Ex-Sunday Mirror and NoW reporter pleads guilty to phone hacking — Dan Evans is the first journalist to admit hacking phones while working for a paper other than the former News International title

Discussion: Press Association