Dafna Linzer, the chief editor of Politico, is stepping down from her function only a 12 months after becoming a member of the corporate.
In an electronic mail to workers, Matthew Kaminski, the publication’s editor in chief, stated that Ms. Linzer had determined to go away Politico later this month.
“We now have at all times been aligned on the purpose of creating Politico the world’s premier supply of reports on politics, coverage and energy. However we noticed ourselves diverging over the easiest way to get there,” Mr. Kaminski wrote. “Dafna and I first started discussing the potential of this transfer final December.”
Ms. Linzer, a former managing editor for politics at NBC Information and MSNBC, joined Politico in March 2022, shortly after the publication was purchased by Axel Springer, a German media behemoth, for greater than $1 billion.
Reporting to Mr. Kaminski, she oversaw each day protection throughout the newsroom, specializing in Washington and politics. Days after Ms. Linzer joined, Politico printed a groundbreaking scoop: a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court docket that will strike down Roe v. Wade.
In an electronic mail to the newsroom on Thursday, Ms. Linzer stated the final 12 months had been “extra rewarding than I might have imagined,” including: “The best pleasure has been steering a newsroom of hungry, gritty, passionate journalists whose work reached new heights.”
Ms. Linzer had grow to be exasperated by the publication’s construction, during which three government editors report back to Mr. Kaminski, in response to two individuals with information of the scenario.
Goli Sheikholeslami, the chief government of Politico, stated in an electronic mail to workers on Thursday that she needed to take the chance to reply whether or not the corporate was organized in the best manner.
“Since I arrived a 12 months in the past, I’ve usually contemplated Politico’s org chart, and questioned if it’s the proper one for a fast-growing group,” she wrote within the electronic mail, which was obtained by The New York Instances.
Ms. Sheikholeslami stated that she had requested Mr. Kaminski and John Harris, a founding father of Politico who now serves as international editorial chair, to reassess the U.S. newsroom’s setup.
