Ezra Klein

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Ezra Klein
Born May 9, 1984 (1984-05-09) (age 24).
Irvine, California
Occupation Journalist and Political pundit.

Ezra Klein (born May 9, 1984) is an associate editor for The American Prospect political magazine and a "prominent"[1] American liberal political blogger at the same publication.[2]

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[edit] Early life

Klein was born in Irvine, California, where he attended University High School. He enrolled at UC Santa Cruz in fall of 2002 and transferred to UCLA in the fall of 2004 and graduated one year early (after completing a summer term in 2005) with a B.A. in Political Science.

[edit] Career

Klein started his first blog in February 2003.[3] He soon joined with Matt Singer, and the name was changed to "Klein/Singer: Political Consulting on the Cheap." In June of 2003, he moved to the blog Not Geniuses along with Matt Singer, Ryan J. Davis, and Joe Rospars.[4]

Following "Not Geniuses," Klein partnered with Jesse Taylor at Pandagon. This partnership helped Klein gain even more visibility, leading to his eventual founding of his current blog "Ezra Klein."[5]

Besides his online contributions, Klein worked on Howard Dean's primary campaign in Vermont in 2003, and interned for the Washington Monthly in Washington, D.C. in 2004. In 2003, he and Markos Moulitsas were two of the earliest bloggers to report from a political convention, that of the California State Democratic Party.[6] In 2006, Klein was one of several writers pseudonymously flamed by The New Republic writer Lee Siegel (posting as a sock puppet called sprezzatura).[7] In 2007, declining to debate Klein on the S-CHIP program expansion, Michelle Malkin labeled him "Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein". According to Malkin, "in some elite conservative circles [...] his work is linked frequently and intellectual repartee among the Beltway boys’ club is warm and chummy", yet she preferred "an overflowing vat of liquid radioactive waste" to sharing a stage with him.[8] According to Paul Krugman, he is "very, very good, and very, very young", because when Klein interviewed him at a restaurant, "he got carded". (Klein was 23.)[9] Slate has said that he is a "liberal darling".[10]

His work has appeared in the Gadflyer, Washington Monthly, LA Weekly, The American Prospect, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and Slate Magazine. Klein has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Hardball with Chris Matthews and numerous NPR programs.

He appears regularly on Bloggingheads.TV


His writing interests include health policy, the labor movement, and electoral politics.

[edit] Secret E-Mail Group Controversy

On July 25th, 2008, Klein was accused by Slate journalist Mickey Kaus of running a 'secret email group of liberals' similar to the earlier "Townhouse" group founded by liberal activist Matt Stoller.


[edit] Selected writings

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Goldberg, Jonah (January 8, 2008). "Dems' New Love: Obama Fever", The New York Post. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. 
  2. ^ The American Prospect political magazine.
  3. ^ Ezra K blog.
  4. ^ Not Geniuses blog.
  5. ^ Ezra Klein blog.
  6. ^ Weiss, Joanna (May 10, 2004). "Blogs colliding with traditional media: Convention credentials expected for Web logs", The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. 
  7. ^ Carr, David (2006-09-11). "A Comeback Overshadowed by a Blog", The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. 
  8. ^ Malkin, Michelle (October 11, 2007). "My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers", michellemalkin.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. 
  9. ^ Krugman, Paul (October 28, 2007). "Interview with Ezra Klein", The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. 
  10. ^ Smith, Sonia (January 7, 2008). "Take It for Granite", Today's Blogs: The Latest Chatter in Cyberspace, [[Slate (magazine)|]]. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. 

[edit] External links

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