Luv Gov to Pen Column for Slate

Let the reputation rehabilitation begin: The New York Observer’s Media Mob is reporting that Eliot Spitzer will write a twice-monthly column for Slate. The disgraced former New York governor, who resigned in March amid a prostitution scandal, has already written an op-ed in The Washington Post on keeping the financial markets in check. The focus of the new column, which begins Thursday, will be government, regulation, and finance, Media Mob reports. “It was not an epic negotiation,” Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg said. “He was very receptive to the idea. I don’t portray this as something we had to coax him into. He’s got a lot to say and he was very receptive to writing on the subject.”