Klein leaves Post for Medill

Alec Klein, an award-winning investigative business reporter for The Washington Post, is leaving the newspaper for a tenured faculty position at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
A veteran reporter for almost 20 years, Klein has worked at papers that include The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot, The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal and the Post. At Medill, Klein will teach business journalism, drawing on his previous teaching experience at American and Georgetown Universities.
"The Washington Post is the best of all newspapers, but I'm excited about moving to Medill; it's one of the great journalism schools in America, I love teaching, and I look forward to working with Dean John Lavine to shape the next generation of journalists," Klein said.
Klein’s work for the Post includes an in-depth investigation into the murky merger between AOL and Time Warner. The yearlong reporting project uncovered that AOL improperly reported at least $190 million in advertising revenue, ultimately forcing top AOL executives to resign and prompting an investigation of the company by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Klein is also the author of the bestseller "Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner."