According to The Daily Beast‘s Confider newsletter, The Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel is set to leave the newspaper to join Semafor, the media startup founded by former New York Times media columnist Ben Smith and former Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith.
Weigel, who has more than 600,000 Twitter followers, was suspended by the Post in June after retweeting a remark viewed as offensive by colleagues. The tweet in question read “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.” Weigel apologized before being suspended for a month.
Semafor aims to be a global news platform. Reportedly, investors have been concerend by the lack of “big-name D.C. hirings” made by the company after striking out on trying lure Maggie Haberman of The New York Times and Jonathan Swan of Axios.
Weigel is slated to leave The Washington Post at the conclusion of the mid-term elections.
