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Ezra Klein Shuts Down His Blog, Launches Wonkblog

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Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Ezra Klein‘s economics and policy blog as we know it is closed for business. Yesterday evening, Klein announced that he would be writing for a new blog called Wonkblog a collective– located at the same URL– written by himself and the collaborators regularly featured on his current site.

Klein explains that the major change from old to new site will not be the material, but the design, which will be more amenable to multiple writers and topics than the single column format used now:

The site, as you’ll see tomorrow, will also be undergoing a substantial redesign: It will be much more navigable, with more ways to sort content (say, by author or subject) and find new posts you might be interested in. It will be quicker to load, and easier to read. It will also include some features and tweaks that have long been on the wish list: the ability to easily print articles, for instance, or to keep them atop the page. There will also be more weekend content, including a regular collaboration with LongReads.com on a weekly roundup of the best long-form policy stories.

Joining Klein will be regular contributors Suzy Khimm, Sarah Kliff, and Brad Plumer. As Klein explains, the content will remain significantly the same but will add some new features, like a collaboration effort with LongReads.com It will also contain elements of the morning newsletter Wonkbook, which has been employed as a supplement to the blog for some time. The site will be up and running on Monday.

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  • Anonymous

    Journolist founder Klein has launched his new phase of the reelection campaign of King Obama .

    Be sure and rip to shreds the reputations of any American who dares to try to depose Obama and protect this incompetent at all costs .

  • Anonymous

    Journolist founder Klein has launched his new phase of the reelection campaign of King Obama .

    Be sure and rip to shreds the reputations of any American who dares to try to depose Obama and protect this incompetent at all costs .

  • ObamaSux

    Oh no.  Essie is shutting down his blog.  The world will never be the same for the 6 people who go on the blog.

  • Harry Flashman

    Oh, good. He assures us the content will be the same. Another give-Obama-journalistic-fellatio-while-trashing-anyone-who-disagrees-with-him site. I can’t wait.

    Parasite.

  • http://twitter.com/JPJABBER JUDI POWELL

    Uh….you don’t elect “kings”. I wish all you incompetent RWs would learn how government (any government) works. If any “ripping of reputations” occurs, it’ll be from the right.

  • http://twitter.com/JPJABBER JUDI POWELL

    You’re here.

  • Norbit

    Oh joy, a new Left-Wing propaganda outlet.
    What’s the name, Weep-Wah?

    How many keynesian sycophants will we have posting on the new site – and which one of them will be awarded the meaningless (Liberal) Nobel Prize this time? 

    Speaking about meaningless Nobel Awards, isn’t it ironic that almost immediately after receiving his, Obama proceeded in “Droning” record amounts of innocent civilians?

    Is that within the parameters of the Nobel PEACE Prize?

  • Harry Flashman

    Thanks for the civics lesson. I’ll file that under “helpful hints” right alongside the “Water is Wet” file.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares what Ezra ever has to say? He’s quite atrocious.

    From a marketing perspective, the name of the new blog is also atrocious.

  • Guest

    Ezra is one of the best bloggers around (besides Chait, Krugman and Sullivan), I’m looking forward to reading the new site.

  • Anonymous

    Ezra, keep up the solid work.
     Heaven knows we need all the info on these politicians we can get.
     Especially the likes of Texan Turkey Perry…

  • chatmandu002

    Is the new site from Ezra called wonk blog or wanker blog.    Sounds more wanker to me. 

  • chatmandu002

    Oh how wonderfully liberal/progressive you are.   NOT!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah whatever, blah-g, blah-g, blah-g …….

  • Anonymous

    If I remember correctly, this is the – uh – person who wrote somewhere-or-other that the US Constitution is outdated and not understandable because it was written so long ago, thus no longer has relevance to today’s world.  Such a belief makes it difficult for me to take him seriously.

  • Anonymous

    I like the sound of EzraKlownBlog.com

  • Anonymous

    Sure that wasn’t Fareed Zakaria?

  • James

    I will reserve comment! I have always got this guy confused with Rachel
    Maddow!

  • Guest

    I’m not liberal or progressive, I’m a proud eco-socialist.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    People are proud of being stupid?  Well, I guess Obama couldn’t be the only one.

  • Guest

    All you can do is insult insult insult. boring.

  • Anonymous

    Hey ! It was like a hundred years ago !

  • Anonymous

    Ahh, well, I suppose that’s true.  I mean, where’s the fun in pointing out the failure of socialism?  Cuba, Greece, Venezuela, Portugal, and on and on, the primary mechanics of it fail constantly.  So, to be a socialist is to accept failure and a reduced standard of living across the board by dragging everyone down.

    The eco part?  What do you say to a person who rejects the simple facts that to make an economy run efficiently, you need cheap power and green energy will not be that?  That failure on one front(socialism) just isn’t enough for that person?  Who knows?

  • Lucifers_Sexy_Tail

    Ezra Klein is a good columnist. I enjoy his writing. Ezra, I wish you the best with Wonkblog!

  • Anonymous

    I know. I was just being snarky about Zakaria, who feels the same way about the Constitution. Turns out many Leftists don’t like it.

  • http://smallthoughtsfromasmallmind.wordpress.com/ Small Thoughts

    Knowing this has made my day.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RXSKHZXNMUV7UNAWHLLLSKKPRA Holly_Golightly

    OXYCON (tin) — Unless everyone thinks like you, no doubt you’re the guy  in the room who hates the ACLU. . . The Leftists who protect our Bill of Rights. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RXSKHZXNMUV7UNAWHLLLSKKPRA Holly_Golightly

    I think its a good idea to adjust the blog name to relfect the growing numbers of regular contributors and broad appeal of public commentary.  Speaks to Klein’s generosity to remove personal moniker from blog.

  • AliveStillKickin

    A “reading” libatad???
    Don’t make me laugh!!!
     

  • AliveStillKickin

    Please put me on that list….I have earned the respect of hating the  American Communist Litigation Union.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Ith Ezra Gay?
    I mean….that lispth and all………

  • Anonymous

    Clearly, he’s looking to tap into an under served demographic by going after that burgeoning Wonkette crowd.

  • Anonymous

    We have a sighting of an ACLU defender. Note the date. Save it to your archives. This is indeed a rare bird.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, he is an Obama worshiper, to be sure. However he did call Obama a “Moderate Republican” to my laughing astonishment. Anything contrary to Obama’s side of things calls for demonizing with sophistry and hyperbole from Ezra Klein. That goes for Democrats in general too. His writing seems to start with those suppositions and argues from there. I doubt that Klein has written very much that doesn’t violate two or three of the basic tenets of journalism. Then, what can you expect from an objectivity challenged JournOlist member?
    It is disturbing that people actually take his opinions and skewed facts into any sort of serious consideration.

  • Anonymous

    You just named four sources of acrimony that American’s need to ignore in these troubled times. They have contributed quite a bit to our polarization.

  • Anonymous

    You seem to have respect for some people with some pretty bad history is terms of being correct.

  • Anonymous

    Well……..that and the ridicule the mere mention of his name evokes.

  • freestyler999

    They title would be more appropriately with “Wankblog”.

  • chatmandu002

    ACLU, the liberal left organization that is determined to alter the Constitution in support of the liberal left agenda. 

  • chatmandu002

    That’s Wankerblog.    LMAO

  • chatmandu002

    Like is said.  “Wankerblog”

  • chatmandu002

    Oh gee I got it wrong.  Weeeelllll  excussss meeee,  Then I will correct myself, “You liberal/progressive/socialist”  isn’t that special.    LMAO

  • chatmandu002

    damn, I forgot the eco-nutjob too. 

  • chatmandu002

    Look up the word Wanker.   LOL

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t amazing how faaaarrrr left some people can go.  Anyone who calls Obama a Moderate is so far left, he fell off his piano seat!

  • Anonymous

    He probably got more publicity from this site than he’s had all year.

  • Anonymous

    OMG!  It does get worse… An eco-Socialist!!

  • Anonymous

    Actually, you’re correct.  insults do get boring after one or two.  It’s much better to argue one’s point with logic, facts and workable ideas.

    A great man once said…”The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

    -Winston Churchill

  • Porchland

    Yet you felt compelled to comment on it.

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