Jefferson Morley

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I am excited and pleased to join the Center for Independent Media and its network of news sites. I joined CIM in the fall of 2007 because I felt the organization had a sense of mission, excitement and opportunity that is rare in the journalistic community. I now have the distinct pleasure of a phrase unheard in contemporary newsroom conversations: "We're hiring."

For me this position combines my interest in online and opinion journalism in a really natural way.

I got my start in opinion journalism in 1983 when Michael Kinsley hired me to work at Harper's magazine. I went on to writing and editing jobs at The New Republic where I wrote about CIA and the contra rebels in Nicaragua and commissioned some of the earliest coverage of the Iran-Contra scandal.

In 1987, I moved on to The Nation, where I wrote the Beltway Bandits column with David Corn and reported on Iran-contra affair, rock music under communism, and the war on drugs. In 1992, I joined the Washington Post Sunday Outlook section, edited by Jodie Allen. I worked hard there to expand and diversify the range of opinions published in the Post.

While at the Post, I also worked a Metro reporter and a Style editor. For the Washington Post Sunday magazine, I wrote one of the first articles about the late great singer Eva Cassidy and the unknown role of Francis Scott Key in Washington's first race riot.

In 2000 I moved to washingtonpost.com to become the first World News editor of the paper's Web site. What a marvelous and overwhelming challenge to manage the online publication of the excellent reporting of Post correspondents. At the same time, I developed the World Opinion Roundup, a Web-only column that combined links to credible foreign news sites with analysis of how international commentators talk about the stories in the U.S.news cycle.

In 2004, I stepped down as World News editor and concentrated on writing the World Opinion Roundup and engaging in online discussion with interested readers. The column regularly ranked in the most viewed stories on washingtonpost.com.

At the same time, I started researching and writing a biography of the CIA's top man in Mexico. Entitled "Our Man in the Mexico," the book will be published by the University Press of Kansas in March 2008.

I left washingtonpost.com in late 2007 in search of new opportunities in online journalism. I have found them at the Center for Independent Media.

If you think you can contribute to the Center's mission of blending the best of traditional journalism and the best of the new media, please send me an email and tell me how.

I look forward to being in touch.

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