Ron Brownstein Joins The Atlantic

Ronald Brownstein, who joins the Atlantic Media Company as political director next week, is the type of reporter who reads the 1994 CBO score of the Clinton health care plan. For fun.

He is the political reporter who takes policy seriously, honing his craft at National Journal, after all, before becoming the chief political correspondent at the Los Angeles Times and then its national affairs columnist after the paper objected to the woman he fell in love with.

He is the political reporter who other political reporters secretly envy because he is so damn smart and so damn perceptive. (He was a Pulitzer finalist, twice.)

He's going to write a weekly column for National Journal and contribute to all of our company's publications, and I'm quietly hoping to convince him to blog in this space occasionally... just occasionally, Ron, no worries ... if only to give this column's readers a real treat.

Comments

Does that "objected to the woman" link where you intend it to?

Posted by huh | September 18, 2007 2:02 PM

Assuming the woman with whom Mr. Brownstein fell in love is not Howie Kurtz, I don't understand the relevance of your link (which goes to Kurtz' latest column). Was it Marcia Clark?

Posted by DaveMB | September 18, 2007 2:21 PM

Ezra Klein on Brownstein -- he says the issue with Brownstein was that his wife works for McCain. So Marc meant to link to a previous Kurtz column?

Posted by DaveMB | September 18, 2007 2:55 PM

What a stupid post. It's a clear conflict of interest. Ambinder must be an idiot to think he could slip this past people.

Of course Carville's a double conflict of interest, between him and his wife. And the media hire him too.

What a hopeless system. What tools.

Posted by John Emerson | November 16, 2007 7:41 PM