Mr. Klein will join The Times in January to write columns focused on policy and to host an interview podcast. After his years at Vox.com, Mr. Klein said in an interview, he “began to feel more burnt out and felt the desire to return to just being a journalist again.”Mr. Klein belongs to the generation of journalists who helped pioneer the vernacular of web publishing, and Vox.com was early to explanatory journalism, a genre that takes readers through complicated issues step by step. Through much of the 2010s, the growth of upstart publications like Vox.com and BuzzFeed suggested that traditional institutions, including The Times and The Washington Post, would wither. “I think that analysis was pretty mistaken,” Mr. Klein said. Digital publishing, he explained, doesn’t abide by zero-sum rules: Readers of one publication may also read hundreds of others.

Source: New York Times November 20, 2020 21:00 UTC