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It’s official: Murray Waas is the new black. Bob Woodward is out like wing-tipped shoes. Jay Rosen at PressThink picks up the thread that Dan Froomkin has long been pushing for a few weeks now, that Murray Waas is writing the hottest stuff on the hottest story in Washington.

Murray Waas is “Woodward Now”: “By Woodward Now I mean the reporter who is actually doing what Woodward has a reputation for doing: finding, tracking, breaking into reportable parts–and then publishing–the biggest story in town. He’s also putting those parts together for us.”

The formidable Murray Waas, one of our most tenacious journalists today, came out of Jack Anderson‘s shop. As Rosen explains, “Murray Waas told us something about his own approach. ‘The public has pushed back against insider, access journalism– whether practiced by Bob Woodward or Judith Miller,’ he wrote.