from Opinionistas.com & Freakonomics.com/blog
We promised you news, and now we've got it: ETP's own Melissa Lafsky is the new Freakonomics site editor. Yes. She's supa-freaky!
Lafsky was recently hired by Freaknomics authors Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, hereinafter to be collectively known as "The Steves," to run the website, which will be ramping up sort of the way violent crime decreases in relation to the abortion rate. Lafsky will be writing and editing content, assisting with upcoming plans for video, recruiting and managing guest-posters (look for more smarty-pants contributions from economists, authors and assorted eggheads in the near future) and managing all user-generated content, plus dealing with "any and all other Freakonomic duties that arise." That is sort of awesome as an adjective.
Said Dubner: "We're pleased to welcome Melissa Lafsky as our new website editor. The site is is slowly but surely expanding, and we've brought Melissa on in anticipation of even bigger changes to follow." I guess that means that she's all right, she's all right, she's all right, by Steves. Yeaaaaaaaah.
We couldn't be more excited for our dear friend and colleague — she's a very special girl, and we look forward to seeing what fun things she cooks up over there with her new freaky friends!
Freakonomics Blog [Freakonomics]
Related:
Rick James: Superfreak [YouTube]
