and liberal. They're afraid that some readers think that Froomkin is a Post White House reporter." Howell continued: John Harris, national political editor at the print Post, said, "The title invites confusion. It dilutes our only asset—our credibility" as objective news reporters. Froomkin writes the kind of column "that we would never allow a White House reporter to write. I wish it could be done with a different title and display." Harris is right; some readers do think Froomkin is a White House reporter. But Froomkin works only for the Web site and is very popular—and [Executive Editor of the website Jim] Brady is not going to fool with that, though he is considering changing the column title and supplementing it with a conservative blogger. Froomkin said he is "happy to consider other ways to telegraph to people that I'm not a Post White House reporter. I do think that what I'm doing, namely scrutinizing the White House's every move—with an attitude—is in the best traditions of American and Washington Post journalism." On the other hand, Chris Cillizza, a washingtonpost.com political reporter, appears in The Post frequently. When he writes for the paper, he works for Harris, who is happy to have him. There was some support from readers for Froomkin in editorial correspondence about the matter. On January 30, 2007, White House Briefing was renamed White House Watch. Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask Froomkin was also the deputy editor of Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask, a blog hosted by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University that "seeks to encourage more informed reporting by soliciting probing questions from experts". Firing from The Washington Post On June 18, 2009, it was reported that Froomkin was being fired by The Washington Post. Froomkin confirmed this in a June 19 entry on White House Watch: "As Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander and others reported yesterday, The Washington Post has terminated my contract. So sometime in late June or early July, I'll be writing my last blog post here." Almost immediately, Froomkin was hired by The Huffington Post, where he continued to write and edit. His last original column for that publication was September 25, 2013. He joined The Intercept on September 4, 2014. On May 9, 2017, The Intercept announced he was leaving. The Intercept's editor praised Froomkin upon his leaving, writing: "Dan was integral to The