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Sign of the media times
Ben Smith's Blog — The Washington Post just hired Greg Sargent away from the reporting-heavy liberal blog empire TPM, to run a new blog for them. Greg's move is both a reminder of how the new liberal reporting infrastructure --TPM and Huffpo, in particular -- were as much competitors as any newspaper in breaking news this cycle; and a sign of how porous the barriers, which used to be fairly substantial, between "MSM" and "blogopshere" (and, for that matter, political campaigns and advocacy groups) have become. Way back in 2003, I replaced Greg on the very print-y New ...

Now Among the Honored Departed
Talking Points Memo — ... It's always a bittersweet moment. One of our vets, who did amazing work for us over more than two years, Greg Sargent, is moving on. Here's Greg's farewell post. He'll be missed and we were honored to have him. ...

TPM’s Sargent joins new WaPo site
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Talking Points Memo’s Greg Sargent announced today that he’s joining a new site that's being launched in the coming weeks by the Washington Post. ...

Sargent to WaPo
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Greg Sargent, the prolific TPM reporter, announced today that he's heading to the Washington Post to run a new blog. Sargent is an unrepentant Democratic partisan, which means he should fit in well with the staff at the Post, but also a top notch reporter. During the campaign, Sargent would ping the McCain press shop with questions all day long. Because TPM is so overtly partisan, he rarely got the answers he was looking for, but for his persistence, if nothing else, Sargent earned a grudging respect from the McCain staff. ...

Umm, Actually
Balloon Juice — ... So Greg Sargent is leaving TPM and starting up a new blog venture at the Washington Post. This has the usual suspects up in arms at ...

New WaPo site revealed: 'Who Runs Gov'
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... When Greg Sargent wrote this morning that he was leaving Talking Points Memo for a secret new Washington Post site, that launches in the coming weeks, he didn’t reveal the name. ...

Friday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... ." What's more, I know I'm not the only one who was able to afford college thanks to his signature policy initiative: Pell Grants. * It's hard to imagine TPM without Greg Sargent , but it sounds like Greg has an amazing opportunity lined up at the Washington Post . I wish him the best of luck in the new gig. * On a related note, ...

the hardest working man in blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, will start getting paid for it
skippy the bush kangaroo — following the lead of such trailblazers as kevin drum and steve benen, greg sergent, the hardest working man in blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, is leaving tpm election central to work for washpost: ...

Greg Sargent Takes a Big Risk...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Signing Off -- Farewell, TPMers: I can't believe I'm writing this, but for the foreseeable future this is my last post at TPM. I'm heading over to The Washington Post, where I'll be writing the lead blog on a new site that WaPo is launching. This will drive you mad with curiosity, unfortunately, but the details on the new site and blog will only be forthcoming when it launches the week after next. Needless to say, I'm hoping that every last one of you will come check out the new place when it's up and running. If you all want info on the new site, or just want to stay in touch, ...

WaPo Hires Lefty Blogger Greg Sargent, Foe of Conservative 'Wingnut Mendacity'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The revolving door first revolved the other way, with old Post vets like Thomas Edsall being hired by the Huffington Post. Now the revolving is going from partisan to "mainstream." Sargent signed off to his hard-core liberal readership this way: ...

It might be news news
The Sideshow — ... news you can lose! To the WaPo, that's a story. To anyone else, it would be a throw-away line, something like: "The substance of criticism from Republicans seems to be that a Democrat really did win the election, and they don't like it." (Also: TMP is trying to find out what the four firms the Fed has brought in are making for handling the toxic mortgage-securities buy-up, and no one's talking - especially not the firm whose chief said he'd do it for free. And Greg Sargent says farewell to TPM as he goes to his new job - blogging for The Washington ...

Versailles welcomes its newest servant
Corrente — Greg Sargent I can't believe I'm writing this, but for the foreseeable future this is my last post at TPM. I'm heading over to The Washington Post, where I'll be writing the lead blog on a new site that WaPo is launching. This will drive you mad with curiosity, unfortunately, but the details on the new site and blog will only be forthcoming when it launches the week after next. Let's take trip down memory lane: Read more…