Liz Smith On The Politico

Here’s a bit of the Internet’s hot skinny! The new big success story is politico.com. This Web site was set up by Robert Albritton of the Washington-based media family. His executive editor is Jim VandeHei.

But did young Robert go around asking journalists and thinkers to blog for him? He did not. Instead he hired a host of effective reporters, columnists and writers the same way a successful newspaper would hire them.