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I. Vox & The Social Media Pundit Class:
So… interesting things are going on over at Vox. The popular news site is losing two of its three cofounders and masthead journalists, Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein, who are starting a Substack newsletter and joining the New York Times respectively. Lauren Williams, Vox.com’s editor-in-chief and senior vice president, is also leaving to found a new non-profit journalism startup called Capital B. (Disclosure: Williams and I worked together at MenuPages years ago. I’m very excited to see what she’s up to at Capital B).
While I don’t have any insights about what’s going on inside Vox apart from the fact that losing three marquee names in a month isn’t good… the Klein and Yglesias departures are interesting. They show, crystal clearly, just how much the pundit game has changed in the 2020s.
Both Yglesias and Klein are perfect examples of the social media pundit class. Pundit, for our purposes, being a reporter, columnist or television personality with a…
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