Ms. Palmer, who covered lobbying and influence before co-writing Playbook, will be the chief executive. Their fourth co-founder — and only other employee — is Rachel Schindler, who left Facebook’s news team to run operations for the new company. “I don’t think it’s incumbent on me to say, you know, to necessarily brand a person a liar, say that they’re disloyal to the country or anything like that,” Mr. Bresnahan said. Ms. Palmer and Mr. Sherman have revealed corruption in both parties, and their reporting on Representative Aaron Schock’s spending habits led to his resignation in 2015. (On Sunday, Mr. Sherman was reporting that Democratic and Republican officials were fighting on the House floor over Republicans’ refusal to wear masks.)

Source: New York Times January 03, 2021 20:21 UTC