The journalism community prides itself on its social media use, but a study released yesterday reveals that mainstream news organizations are using Twitter wrong, i.e. to advance their own material as opposed to engaging with readers and followers. Researchers from The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University's School Read More
There's not a single person in New York who would defend food in Washington, D.C. -- or any city, for that matter -- against food in our town. But this collection of disses that The New York Times has levied at D.C.'s glaring inferiority in all epicurean categories may indicate that the paper of record Read More
The Washington Post was really asking for it when, for a straight-faced story about paying sources for information, they talked to Gawker media overlord Nick Denton. The conversation consisted of "an exchange of electronic messages."
"I'm content for the old journalists not to pay for information. It keeps the price down," Denton electronically messaged the Read More
Good news from D.C.: The Washington Post Co. is reporting that with its struggling Newsweek property gone, the paper's publishing revenues were up five percent this quarter. What's more, online profits skyrocketed a whole 21 percent.
The company, which owns both The Washington Post and Slate Group, was sinking millions keeping Newsweek afloat before audio Read More
Happy election day, everyone! Chances are, if you've already exercised you civic duty to vote, you've taken to Twitter to air your participation in democracy to the masses. Currently, #Election is the number one trending topic in the world, and a glance at the live stream of its related tweets provides bursts of news about Read More
After a memo banning staffers from attending rallies — specifically the two high-profile ones to be orchestrated by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert later this month — made its way around the internet and collected backlash in its swath, NPR is trying to get other news outlets to join its side of the Read More
Last Sunday, the editors of The Washington Post decided to deprive the funny pages of the weekly comic Non Sequitur. The strip, known for its typically off-beat humor, had waded into territory the higher-ups felt might be offensive. The cartoon consisted of a full-color cel depicting an innocuous Sunday afternoon in a park, with Read More
Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced earlier this afternoon that she hired The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz to take over as her website's Washington Bureau chief.
"It was a hard decision for me to make because newsprint is in my veins and I have worked here for almost three decades," Mr. Kurtz told Read More
Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced this afternoon that Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post's media critic and an investigative reporter, will be taking over as the site's Washington Bureau chief. "Howie knows that today the interaction of media and politics is the story," Ms. Brown wrote in the announcement. "He combines integrity and rigorous Read More
One Man's Opinion Question Time
Yesterday Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli took questions from the newspaper's readers in a live chat. The questions covered covered Mr. Brauchli's editorial priorities and the Post's direction online, among other things. A few excerpts here.
On where Mr. Brauchli is putting his reporting "firepower": "...distinctive journalism that matters most to our readers: coverage Read More
Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise has been suspsended from the paper for a month after using Twitter for a practical joke and, more to the point, abusing his privilege as beat reporter.
Mr. Wise tweeted a fabricated news item about Ben Roethlisberger's supsension yesterday — "Roethlisberger will get five games, I'm told" — to Read More
One of the places Dave Weigel stopped after his exit from the Washington Post was Slate, and Michael Calderone writes today that Mr. Weigel has now signed a one-year contract with the Washington Post Co.-owned site. Mr. Weigel will keep a blog about the conservative movement as he did for the Post, and Read More
Back in the bad old days of the cold war-when mutual nuclear annihilation was a policy option-a culture of secrecy arose in Washington. What wise observers understood even then was that while governments tried to keep secrets from each other, their chief concern was to keep secrets from their own people. Considering what had Read More
Here's a curious coda to l'affair Journolist: though David Weigel was squeezed out at The Washington Post for appearing overly liberal in his posts to the off-the-record listserv, the Washington Post Company apparently has no problem with him writing for their online magazine Slate.
His story today, "Bouncers for the Tea Read More
In the wake of The New York Times’s recent profile of New Yorker editor David Remnick, The Observer has unearthed new evidence that calls into question many of the story’s key assertions, including those relating to Remnick's reportorial techniques, his editorial policies, and even his famed work ethic. Fearing Mr. Remnick's titanic reach, sources--former Read More
