Rupert Murdoch may be fighting, through his Wall Street Journal's new NY section, with the Times over NY journalists, but now a website has snatched one of the Post's political reporters. Politico management bragged about hiring Maggie Haberman to "cover national politics." Haberman will "continue to mine her New York sources and break news on her blog. Anyone who follows New York politics knows Maggie as a scoop artist and a punchy writer. She has the same metabolism and moves as her friend and fellow New Yorker Ben Smith."
The Observer noted last year that Haberman "is universally known, respected, and maybe a little bit feared in City Hall (on a first-name-only basis)" and she's "had her name attached to a number of the defining stories of the last mayoral cycle, including the classic tabloid piece about Anthony Weiner taking illegal campaign contributions from sexy foreign models that basically scared him out of the race."
Smith adds her other ones include "Eliot Spitzer's comeback contemplation, Caroline Kennedy's dropping out of the Senate race, the New York GOP's surprising turn to Steve Levy for governor, Dan Senor's short-lived Senate consideration." Also, Haberman is daughter of NY Times columnist Clyde Haberman. Gawker notices this hire is announced the very day the Times published its feature on Politico's Mike Allen.
