Romenesko Letters | Penn Arts & Sciences Magazine
Eric Umansky has been given a fellowship to study at Columbia. "As for my replacement, Slate is having a bake-off," he writes. "
Alexander Barnes Dryer -- currently at the New Yorker's D.C. office -- will compete with two freelancers,
Daniel Politi, and
Joshua Kucera." Umansky, who has written Today's Papers since October 2001, was recently
profiled [PDF] in a University of Pennsylvania magazine.