Congrats to Matt

Posted on April 3, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

Congratulations to Matthew Yglesias, who has been named a Writing Fellow at The American Prospect. There’s quite a few writing pros who have become bloggers, but Matt’s the first (though surely not the last) example of a blogger becoming a professional, at least as far as I know. I join the many commenters on Matt’s site in offering my best wishes and saluting TAP for their good taste.

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3 Responses to Congrats to Matt

  1. kevin says:
    April 3, 2003 at 11:20 am

    Just for the record, Atrios has a spot on the Daily New’s (well, one of the NY papers. I am not usre of the name, now that I think about it) blog. I a ssume he is being paid for that, and Reynolds now has a blog on MSNBC, which, I assume, he is also paid for.

  2. Chris Quinones says:
    April 3, 2003 at 12:44 pm

    Atrios is writing for the NY Press, an alternative weekly in New York, but AFAIK only online, not for their dead-tree edition (which I rarely read).

  3. Charles Kuffner says:
    April 3, 2003 at 1:01 pm

    I really meant that Matt’s the first all-amateur blogger to get hired as a full-time pundit that I could think of. Reynolds and Atrios have leveraged their blogging gigs into some paid work, but Matt may be starting on a career here. That feels different to me.

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