Washington Post company re-hires Journolista Dave Weigel for online magazine

7/27, "Ex-Washington Post blogger David Weigel joins Slate," Upshot, Michael Calderone

• "(Dave) Weigel may have lost the Post job over his off-the-record comments, but he wasn’t completely out of work for long. Within days, he signed on as an MSNBC contributor and filled in for Andrew Sullivan on his popular blog, The Daily Dish.

Slate contacted Weigel shortly after he left the Post to discuss what he could do for the online magazine (which, oddly enough, owned by the Washington Post Co.) Plotz said that the Post Co. has been informed of the hire, but pointed out that Slate is "editorially independent from the newspaper.""...

• via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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