LAT's Gold jumps to Washington Post
Annual issue is out this weekMarc Cooper is joining the Huffington Post as special correpondent and will direct coverage of the 2008 political campaigns for OfftheBus.net, a co-venture of the Huffington Post and NewAssignment.net, NYU professor Jay Rosen's experiment in grass roots journalism. Cooper will continue as an LA Weekly writer and as a contributing editor at The Nation. Here's what they say in the flakkery for the new gig:
Rosen: "It's rare to find someone with Marc's experience who is so open to the Web and to contributors who can come from anywhere. We couldn't pass that up."
Cooper: "This is a singular opportunity to build a new type of journalism while directly covering an extraordinary presidential campaign. This will be a landmark year in shifting our very definition of political journalism, and I am honored to have been offered a front-row seat."