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December 15, 2008

PolitckerMD is gone

Our inbox was a little lighter this morning without the wake-up call synopsis from PolitckerMD, an ambitious online project of the New York Observer that has been vastly curtailed in the wake of the economic crisis facing all of us.

The plan was to have a local politics site in every state, and Politicker got up to about 17 or 18 before cutting back to all but a handful last week. We can't find a formal announcement, but the demise was reported by Gawker and FishbowlDC, as well as some of Politicker's sources in Maryland.

The Maryland site is one of the casualties.

Republican lobbyist and political adviser Don Murphy is hosting a farewell luncheon today for Politicker's Maryland reporter, the omnipresent Danny Reiter, at Paul's Restaurant in Arbutus. As best we can tell, Reiter never had an office. But with a cell phone and a laptop, he covered a lot of terrain. We don't like seing any journalist lose their job, and especially those with an organization thought to be at the vanguard just a few months ago.

Posted by David Nitkin at 12:36 PM | | Comments (1)
        

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Danny and the PolitickerMD will be sorely missed. That was one of my links on my Examiner page.

However as talented as Mr. Reiter is I'm sure he'll be writing for someone else soon...like the Examiner??? Maybe? Or the Sun?? lol...

Posted by: Mr.Giordano | December 23, 2008 11:35 PM

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Laura Smitherman has been ensconced in the State House basement, writing about the governor, General Assembly and vagaries of Maryland politics for several years. An erstwhile business reporter, her interest in politics dates to her days in Washington when she covered Congress and national campaigns for another media outlet. She now follows a range of policy debates from slot-machine gambling to universal health care and energy regulation, while keeping an eye on the next election.

Paul West covers Washington for The Baltimore Sun, continuing a tradition that began the month the paper was born, in 1837. He hasn't been in the DC bureau that long--only since Ronald Reagan was president. He's covered Congress, the White House and presidential campaigns as the paper's national political correspondent and Washington bureau chief. He's on the lookout for news of significance to Sun readers at the other end of the B/W Parkway. That includes the activities of the state's congressional delegation and anything else that might shed some light on the inner workings of the nation's capital.

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