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Article: Mother Jones Lures David Corn From The Nation.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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"I think my bureau will be almost as big as the Time magazine bureau," David Corn was telling The Observer on Monday afternoon, a kid-in-a-candy-store excitement in his voice. That morning, Mr. Corn--whose name for years has been synonymous with the Washington coverage of the country's most prominent magazine of the left, The Nation--had been named the D.C. bureau chief of Mother Jones, the San Francisco-based liberal bi-monthly.
He's not wrong: Time currently has seven Washington reporters devoted to covering politics--the same number as Mother Jones, with the addition of Mr. Corn. The magazine's aggressive Washington strategy, coming as it does at a time when ...