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This week, the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein joined a growing group of big-name journalists leaving traditional news outlets for ones that promise to be at the edge of digital innovation. Ezra Klein is bound for his own venture within the digitally native Vox Media, while the New York Times’ David Pogue and ABC’s Katie Couric both left for Yahoo. The New York Times’ Nate Silver left for ESPN. Meanwhile, these establishment news sources are scrambling to catch up to their start-up peers. The Washington Post’s Marty Baron recently announced a flurry of innovations to make the newspaper more digitally relevant, including a new initiative that will explain the real-world impacts of public policy headed by Jim Tankersley. The National Journal’s executive editor Adam Kushner will also start a new opinion venture at the Post. On this episode of the Mediatwits, we’re joined by special guests Jim Tankersley of the Washington Post and NPR’s Elise Hu to talk about the emigration of journalists to digital media outlets, and how traditional outlets are reacting. Regular panelists Monica Guzman of the Seattle Times and Geekwire and Andrew Lih of American University will join as well. PBS MediaShift’s Mark Glaser will host, as usual.