Timothy B. Lee, who covers technology policy, including copyright and patent law, telecom regulation, privacy, and free speech for The Washington Post, is leaving to join Ezra Klein’s new Vox Media project, reports Dylan Byers of Politico.
Lee will leave the Post at the end of the month. He also writes about the economics of technology. He has previously written for Ars Technica and Forbes.
Lee was the editor of The Switch, the Post’s technology blog launched in July 2013.
Byers writes, “Klein has already stolen Melissa Bell, the former director of Platforms at The Washington Post; Max Fisher, who anchored The Washington Post’s WorldViews foreign affairs blog; and three more of his former Wonkblog colleagues: Dylan Matthews, Brad Plumer and Sarah Kliff. Last week, Klein also picked up POLITICO education reporter Libby Nelson.
“In a memo, Post editors said they’ll be hiring a new leader for The Switch. The Post has also tapped Jim Tankersley, an economic correspondent, to oversee a new “‘data/storytelling blog.'”
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