Steven Waldman, the founding editor of Beliefnet, is leaving the religion website to take a job at the FCC as a special adviser on the future of media. Brad A. Greenberg of GetReligion thinks this might have important implications:
Typically, it’s only big news when people resign from politics. But Waldman’s transition is significant for two primary reasons:
It puts atop the FCC’s hierarchy an expert on religion and media and the intersection of the two and it creates a massive void for Beliefnet that will have to be filled by Waldman’s replacement.
Read more at GetReligion.