the forum and the extent of its membership. The Politico article set off debate within the blogosphere over the ethics of participating in JournoList and raised questions about its purpose. The first public excerpt of a discussion within JournoList was posted by Mickey Kaus on his blog on March 26, 2009. In addition to Ezra Klein, membership of JournoList included Jeffrey Toobin, Eric Alterman, Paul Krugman, Joe Klein, Matthew Yglesias, and Jonathan Chait. On June 25, 2010, Ezra Klein announced in his Washington Post blog that he would be terminating the JournoList group. This decision was instigated by fellow blogger Dave Weigel's resignation from the Post following the public exposure of several of his JournoList emails about conservative media figures. Klein had justified excluding conservative Republicans from participation as "not about fostering ideology but preventing a collapse into flame war. The emphasis is on empiricism, not ideology." Awards In 2010, he was named Blogger of the Year by The Week magazine and The Sidney Hillman Foundation. In 2011, he was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Washington, D.C., by GQ. His blog was also named one of the 25 best financial blogs by Time magazine in 2011. In 2013, Klein won the Online News Association Award for Best Online Commentary. He also won the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award, for "a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics". He appeared as one of 80 men featured in Esquire 80th anniversary issue and in a feature in T magazine. Personal life Klein is married to Annie Lowrey, an economic policy reporter at The Atlantic. They have two children, the first born in February 2019 and the second in fall 2021. Klein is vegan. Bibliography References External links 1984 births 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American bloggers American male bloggers American male journalists American people of Brazilian-Jewish descent American podcasters American political commentators American political writers California Democrats Hispanic and Latino American journalists Jewish American journalists Jewish American writers Journalists from California Liberalism in the United States Living people MSNBC people The New Yorker people Newsweek people Online journalists People from Irvine, California University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni Video bloggers Vox (website) people The Washington Post people Writers from California Writers from Oakland, California American people of Brazilian descent