For those of you who accidentally turned off your Google alert on my name, a quick round-up of the pick-up of my announcement on Wednesday that I’m heading to Yahoo:
Thanks for caring folks! Now back to your regularly scheduled programing of links about other things more interesting and less me-y.
Some big, and bittersweet, news for ya: at the end of next week I’m going to be leaving TPM, my home for the last three years.
I’ve accepted an amazing offer from Yahoo to build, staff and run a new news blog. It will be a combination of curation and original reporting, with gregarious linking and sharp, smart writing. In other words, for the folks who read this site for meta journalism news, I’m going to be building a team to bring the most popular news site in the United States into the news link economy.
Needless to say, only an opportunity this intriguing could have possibly lured me away from TPM. My love for the company, for Josh, and for the team he’s built isn’t something that will ever go away. I’ll always be thankful to Josh for the opportunities he’s given me and proud to have contributed to building the site into what it’s become (when I started there, it looked like this). I’m sure TPM will remain a cutting edge producer of engaging, important journalism for years to come.
I’ll have more to say about the Yahoo project as things develop in the weeks to come. The blog’s name and the brilliant writers who will grace its pageviews are TBD. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have ideas for either.
In the meantime, if you always thought “I could do Andrew’s job way better than he does,” I highly recommend you apply for one of the two new job opening’s on TPM’s publishing staff: Deputy Publisher/Publisher and Social Media & Publicity Associate. Details are here.
Late update: A clarification: my use of the word “site” instead of “blog” made some folks think this would be a new, independent website for Yahoo. Thankfully, it won’t be, and will live at Yahoo News and benefit from the enormous audience and resources they’ve already built up (hence the exciting “bring the most popular news site in the United States into the news link economy” part). Apologies for the confusion.
Later update: I need name ideas!