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Michael Kinsley has been named the new op-ed editor at the LA Times:

Political commentator and columnist Michael Kinsley has been named editorial and opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times, the paper said Wednesday.

Kinsley, 53, will be responsible for the paper's daily editorial and letters page, its commentary page and its Sunday Opinion section, Times editor John Carroll said.

The current editorial page editor, Janet Clayton, will become assistant managing editor for state and local news. Both appointments are effective June 14.

Kinsley has been an editor at The New Republic and Harper's and for six years was the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire."

In 1995, he founded the online magazine Slate.com, financed by Microsoft Corp., and was its editor for six years.

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Kinsley has worked as a columnist for Slate and The Washington Post and a contributing writer at Time magazine since stepping down from his post at Slate in February 2002.

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