Slate's Umansky Exits For Columbia

Via Romenesko Letters:

I have decided to retire from the evening shift and am leaving Slate. I’ve been given a fellowship to study for the year at Columbia — focusing on national security and human rights — and then to study Arabic next summer and fall, which I’m planning to do in Cairo or perhaps Beirut. (And no, the fellowship doesn’t come courtesy of the CIA … or Amnesty International.)