Columbia Journalism Review notes, “Word has it that the Atlantic’s Ross Douthat will be picking up where Bill Kristol left off at the New York Times’s op-ed page. Here’s the email the Times’s Andrew Rosenthal sent to colleagues announcing the hire”:
Folks:
Some exciting news. We’ve hired Ross Douthat, currently of Atlantic. Ross will be joining the Times staff in mid-April and will be based in the Washington bureau. He will start out primarily online, but will soon be writing with increasing frequency, and then regularity, on the Op-Ed page, in the Monday slot opposite Paul. At some point, he’ll also resume his work as a blogger, which I highly recommend.
If you don’t know Ross, you’ll find him funny and smart and sharp. He’s going to be a great addition to our team. I know you’ll make him welcome.
Andy
Seems like a good choice; CJR post found via Allahpundit on Twitter.
Update: “Breakthrough for Bloggers?”
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder describes Douthat as having “the intellectual honesty of his frequent sparring partner, Andrew Sullivan.”
Talk about kicking a guy on the way out–that’s just vicious.
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