High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! JournoList (sometimes referred to as the J-List) was a private Google Groups forum for discussing politics and the news media with 400 "left-leaning" journalists, academics and others. Ezra Klein created the online forum in February 2007 while blogging at The American Prospect and shut it down on June 25, 2010 amid public exposure and controversy. He controlled the forum`s membership and limited it to "several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics". Posts within JournoList were intended only be made and read by its members. Klein defended the forum structure saying that it ensures "that folks feel safe giving off-the-cuff analysis and instant reactions".