Michael Kinsley resigned as the top editor of Microsoft Corp.'s online magazine Slate, which he helped start six years ago, but will stay on as a writer and editor, Slate's publisher said on Monday.
Jacob Weisberg, Slate's political correspondent, and Jack Shafer, deputy editor, will temporarily oversee the editorial operations while the magazine looks for a new leader. Both are in the running for the slot, a Slate spokeswoman said.
Kinsley, a Harvard graduate who has served as an editor at New Republic, Harper's and Washington Monthly, launched Slate in 1996 as the dot-com boom began. He disclosed in an essay in Time magazine last year that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1993.
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