Categories: OLD Media Moves

McLean, Lowrey to write biz coverage for Slate

Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider reports that Bethany McLean and Annie Lowrey will write business and economics coverage for Slate.com in the wake of the departure of Dan Gross.

Pompeo writes, “Slate editor-in-chief David Plotz confirmed the hires in a brief phone interview.

“‘Dan was somebody who did everything, so now we’re dividing up the coverage,’ said Plotz.

“In July, Slate shuttered its two-year-old standalone business news website, The Big Money. But Slate chairman Jacob Weisberg stressed at the time that, ‘The decision to close TBM as a separate destination doesn’t signal a move away from business as a category or a subject. To the contrary, we expect Slate’s engagement with business to get much stronger as a result of folding in aspects of what the separate site has been doing.’

“Plotz echoed those sentiments.

“‘We’re not Fortune or BusinessWeek or even a necessary stop for business and economics coverage, but we’re a place that traditionally thinks and writes really, really well about these issues,’ he said, citing past columnists like Austan Goolsbee, Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley and Business Insider’s Henry Blodget.”