Dave Weigel is leaving Bloomberg News and returning to the Washington Post.
Weigel, who e provides some of the best mainstream coverage of Rand Paul, will cover national politics.
Weigel spent roughly 3 months at WaPo in 2010 but left after private email discussion group emails were leaked that revealed Weigel in some of the emails making disparaging comments about various conservatives.
In the end, Weigel's pen turns out to be more powerful.
At WaPo, he will have an even larger audience at WaPo than what he had at Bloomberg.
Weigel will start with the Post on July 20.
-RW
Robert, how do you view WaPo's re-hiring of Dave, now that Radley Balko is now there? Is the WaPo attempting to serve a libertarian-ish audience through this hire, or are they just hiring another good journalist?
ReplyDeletePardon my saying so, but I seem to remember that Weigel was even rougher on Ron than you are on Rand. In fact, the word "smear" comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteHe'll need some serious rehabilitatin' before he's ok in my book.