(LA Weekly) Forty-three-year-old Andrew Breitbart’s shocking death in Westwood last night came just days before he was set to unveil a mysterious new project — one he hoped would mark “a transition into a different kind of journalism,” says Joel Pollack, head of Breitbart’s blog empire.
For the last several months, “this has been Andrew’s obsession,” says Pollack. “He was working incredibly hard.”
But the dream won’t die with the man:
His right-hand executive tells the Weekly that “we have a big rollout scheduled for the websites … over the next few days.” (The websites being, for those unfamiliar, Breitbart.com, BigGovernment.com, BigJournalism.com, BigHollywood.com and BigPeace.com.)
Breitbart had originally planned his big reveal for this coming Sunday.
His father-in-law and daughter tell reporters that he collapsed one month ago, and that last night’s fatal repeat was likely due to a heart attack.
[…]Breitbart was intensely focused on his upcoming project — completely preoccupied, up until the moment he collapsed.
We ask Pollack how the Big blogs will be run, now that their mastermind is gone. He says that although “Andrew’s role as a media figure and as a strategic observer will never be equaled,” the many people he has employed and influenced “will take what we’ve learned from him and apply it to his dream.”
Over the next few days, albeit posthumously, this man who changed journalism will gift the world with his parting project. What we do with it is anyone’s game.