WaPo To Launch Initiative Focused on Real World Impact of Public Policy
The Washington Post today announced it plans to launch a new initiative focused on explaining the real-world impacts of public policy led by Jim Tankersley, an economic policy correspondent for the outlet. The yet-to-be-named project will launch in spring of 2014 and will join Wonkblog and The Switch to round out the Post’s policy coverage.
The announcement comes days after Wonkblog tweeted that Ezra Klein would be leaving the Post.
The Post will be hiring a staff of new writers and data experts to join Tankersley as the project’s core contributors, and will also feature contributions from current staff members throughout the newsroom such as Eli Saslow, Monica Hesse and David Fahrenthold.
According to Greg Schneider, WaPo business editor,
“The new initiative will harness one of the Post’s great historical strengths: storytelling.
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