This is interesting, Steve Clemons of New America Foundation has a big new media job at the Atlantic. And Jeffrey Goldberg is leaving that shop.
Atlantic Media Company president Justin Smith announced today that Steve Clemons has joined The Atlantic as Editor-in-Chief of AtlanticLIVE [this seems like their thinktank] and Washington Editor-At-Large for The Atlantic.
Clemons is notable lately for helping to organize a letter to Obama from 50 f.p. notables, including Andrew Sullivan, Peter Beinart, a lot of realists and Walt and Mearsheimer and Mike Desch, urging him not to veto the UN Security Council resolution opposing settlements. Futile gesture. But resonant.
Goldberg is taking his column to Tablet, the Jewish site. Kinda like where he started, the Forward. A coup for Tablet. Writes Goldberg today, with insight:
I think we’re entering a period of huge disruption in the relationship between America and Israel, and between American Jews and Israelis, and I want to be able to focus on these conflicts in an intensely granular way, inside the Jewish community. Tablet is the most exciting Jewish publication I’ve seen since I worked, in the previous century, at the Seth Lipsky-led Forward, and it is becoming the hub of the worldwide Jewish conversation.
Oh by the way here is Desch on Sarah Palin’s bling: “She looks like a Zionist Run DMC, who used to wear an oversized Mercedes hood ornament.”
