Who is Ezra Klein?

 

Ezra Klein is a Jewish, American Journalist, political analyst, and a Columnist for the New York Times. He hosts his own podcast amply called The Ezra Klein Show. He is a co-founder of Vox and formerly served as the website's editor-at-large. Klein has held editorial positions for the Washington Post and the American Prospect; Moreover, he became a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC.

Klein rose to prominence as a blogger who amast a huge following because of his keen insight on range of policy issues. In 2007 Klein blog was purchased by The American Prospect however, he stayed on as associate editor. 

In 2014 Klein cofounded Vox along side journalists Matt Yglesias and Melissa Bell. 

Klein worked on Howard Dean's primary campaign in Vermont in 2003 and interned for the Washington Monthly in Washington, D.C., in 2004. "The media is as effective and important an agent for change as the legislative bodies, and I think it's where I'm happiest and most effective," Klein said. In 2003, he and Markos Moulitsas were two of the earliest bloggers to report from a political convention, that of the California State Democratic Party. In 2006, Klein was one of several writers pseudonymously flamed by The New Republic writer Lee Siegel (posting as a sock puppet called sprezzatura).

On December 10, 2007, Klein moved his blog full-time to The American Prospect.

Klein's prolific blogging caught the attention of Steve Pearlstein, The Washington Post's veteran business columnist. "I was blown away by how good he was—how much the kid wrote—on so many subjects," Pearlstein said. Pearlstein sent samples of Klein's work to managing editor Raju Narisetti. A few weeks after he heard from Pearlstein, Washington Post foreign correspondent John Pomfret asked Klein to have lunch with him and financial editor Sandy Sugawara. Narisetti hired Klein to be the Post's first pure blogger on politics and economics. On May 18, 2009, he began writing at the newspaper.

In May 2011, when Bloomberg View launched, Klein became a columnist there in addition to his work at The Washington Post and MSNBC.

Klein announced he would be leaving The Washington Post in January 2014, with the intent to start a new media venture with several other veteran journalists. The new media venture was later identified as the politics site Vox. Klein had previously "proposed the creation of an independent, explanatory journalism website—with more than three dozen staffers" and an annual budget of more than US$10 million to remain at The Washington Post. During negotiations, Post publisher Katharine Weymouth and new owner Jeff Bezos did not make a counteroffer.

Klein was editor-in-chief at Vox, later editor-at-large, and formerly wrote for and edited Wonkblog at The Washington Post. He frequently provides political commentary on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. He is a former contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann. On March 14, 2013, The Week magazine reported that Klein was among those being considered to host MSNBC's yet-unnamed 8 p.m. weekday prime-time show that would replace The Ed Show. Ultimately, the time slot was filled with All In with Chris Hayes.

In October 2015, Klein, along with Sarah Kliff and Matt Yglesias, launched The Weeds, a Vox podcast of detailed discussions on public policy. Klein also hosts the podcast The Ezra Klein Show. Klein is an executive producer of Vox's Netflix series Explained, which debuted in 2018.

In October 2019, Klein, along with other reporters from Vox Media, started the podcast Impeachment, Explained.

Klein joined the New York Times in 2020 and became one of their opinion columnists in 2021.