Ezra Klein was born on May 10,1984 and is an American progressive journalist, political analyst, New York Times columnist, and the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast.
35 Facts About Ezra Klein
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Ezra Klein is a co-founder of Vox and formerly served as the website's editor-at-large.
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Ezra Klein has held editorial positions at The Washington Post and The American Prospect, and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC.
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At The Washington Post, Ezra Klein managed Wonkblog, a branded blog that featured his and other reporters' writing on domestic policy.
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In 2014, alongside fellow journalists Matt Yglesias and Melissa Bell, Ezra Klein co-founded Vox, a website for explanatory news owned by Vox Media.
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Ezra Klein served as the editor-in-chief, and later as editor-at-large.
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In November 2020, Ezra Klein announced he would be leaving Vox to join The New York Times as a columnist and podcast host.
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Ezra Klein was raised in a Jewish family in Irvine, California.
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Ezra Klein's father, Abel Klein, originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Irvine; his mother is an artist.
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Ezra Klein attended University High School, where he was a poor student and graduated in 2002 with a 2.2 GPA.
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Ezra Klein attended the University of California, Santa Cruz for two years before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.
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Ezra Klein said school was never a great fit for him academically or socially.
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Ezra Klein worked on Howard Dean's primary campaign in Vermont in 2003 and interned for the Washington Monthly in Washington, DC, in 2004.
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In 2006, Ezra Klein was one of several writers pseudonymously flamed by The New Republic writer Lee Siegel.
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On December 10,2007, Ezra Klein moved his blog full-time to The American Prospect.
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Narisetti hired Ezra Klein to be the Post's first pure blogger on politics and economics.
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In May 2011, when Bloomberg View launched, Ezra Klein became a columnist there in addition to his work at The Washington Post and MSNBC.
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Ezra 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.
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Ezra Klein was editor-in-chief at Vox, later editor-at-large, and formerly wrote for and edited Wonkblog at The Washington Post.
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Ezra Klein frequently provides political commentary on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
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Ezra Klein is a former contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
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On March 14,2013, The Week magazine reported that Ezra Klein was among those being considered to host MSNBC's yet-unnamed 8 pm weekday prime-time show that would replace The Ed Show.
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Ezra Klein is an executive producer of Vox Netflix series Explained, which debuted in 2018.
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Ezra Klein joined the New York Times in 2020 and became one of their opinion columnists in 2021.
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In December 2009, Ezra Klein wrote an article in The Washington Post, stating that US Senator Joe Lieberman was "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score", because Lieberman "was motivated to oppose health care legislation in part out of resentment at liberals for being defeated in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic Primary".
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Ezra Klein based his estimate on an Urban Institute report that estimated that 22,000 people died in 2006 because they lacked health insurance.
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In February 2007, Ezra Klein created a Google Groups forum called "JournoList" for discussing politics and the news media.
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Ezra Klein defended the forum saying that it "[ensures] that folks feel safe giving off-the-cuff analysis and instant reactions".
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JournoList member and Time magazine columnist Joe Klein added that the off-the-record nature of the forum was necessary because "candor is essential and can only be guaranteed by keeping these conversations private".
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On June 25,2010, Ezra Klein announced in his Washington Post blog that he would be terminating the JournoList group.
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Ezra Klein's blog was named one of the 25 best financial blogs by Time magazine in 2011.
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In 2013, Ezra Klein won the Online News Association Award for Best Online Commentary.
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Ezra Klein won the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award, for "a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics".
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Ezra Klein appeared as one of 80 men featured in Esquire 80th anniversary issue and in a feature in T magazine.
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Ezra Klein is married to Annie Lowrey, an economic policy reporter at The Atlantic.