Tara Palmeri is leaving Politico as its national correspondent as The Daily Beast reports she’ll be heading to subscription-based digital startup Puck.
Palmeri’s decision to exit comes after brass at the political journalism company moved her off its marquee product, “Playbook,” amid reported clashes among the daily newsletter’s stars.
In January, Politico revealed that Palmeri, a former ABC News White House correspondent and Page Six reporter, would depart the “Playbook” team to assume a new role as the chief national correspondent and helm a brand-new Sunday evening product.
However, the product never came to fruition. Multiple insiders informed The Daily Beast that Editor-in-Chief Matt Kaminski trifled with several ideas, but the team never landed on a mutually acceptable vision for the product.
Palmeri will join Puck, but no further details on what position she’ll be taking with the subscription-based new media outlet, which Vanity Fair editor Jon Kelly launched last year and features reporters like Matthew Belloni, Julia Ioffe, and Dylan Byers.
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