Examiner's DeWitt Departs

Is this is an innocuous move or a sign of continuing trouble in the upper echelons of the start-up Examiner?

News today that the Examiner’s Washington editor, Karen DeWitt, is leaving the paper to become the communications director for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

“Karen brings great strategic vision and skill to our team and award-winning website,” said Wade Henderson, LCCR’s executive director. “She is an experienced, proven professional who will help call greater attention to our most pressing civil rights issues, such as renewing the Voting Rights Act and driving back assaults on affirmative action.”

DeWitt is a former senior producer for ABC’s “Nightline,” an NYT Washington correspondent, and a columnist/White House correspondent/foreign correspondent/assistant national editor for USA Today.

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