The Washington Post is not renewing leases for any of its regional bureaus, except those in Richmond and Annapolis, according to a message sent to the WaPo Guild's private Facebook group, obtained by Romenesko. But they're not laying off any reporters, according to an internal memo obtained by Politico. "This decision is about Read More
The fellas at 4chan should get some mileage out of this.
The CIA has started a group to determine the impact of Cablegate, the leak of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks, which is known as the Wikileaks Task Force, or WTF, reports The Washington Post.
WTF is Internet slang for an Read More
New York's PFC Opinion Research is sullying the good name of Washington, D.C. journalists with dubious consulting gigs, reports The Washington Post. The gigs take the form of 25-minute interviews, compensated with a $250 cash "honorarium". The interviews are about the oil and gas industry and they are reaching out to journalists on the Read More
FishbowlDC editor Betsy Rothstein called out the Washington Post on Monday with a blog post that accused the paper of taking two stories from other outlets without attribution -- Politico's story about Keith Olbermann's campaign contributions and FishbowlDC's scoop about the ouster of TBD.com editor Jim Brady.
WaPo reporter David Montgomery's article Read More
WaPo columnist Gene Weingarten trotted out the "English is dead" meme on Sunday and he targeted newspapers to support his thesis. He ended up making a pretty good point; but it may have more to do with small budgets that don't permit copy editors or even editors in general. Still, his litany of Read More
Marcus Brauchli has resurrected the role of "features czar" at the Washington Post and moved Kevin Sullivan, a recently returned foreign correspondent, into the role.
In an interview with Politico last week, Mr. Sullivan described his new position as advocate for the Style section and weekend magazine — to make sure the light stuff is Read More
This morning, the Washington Post relaunched its business page online as part of a growing partnership with Bloomberg News. The two companies collaborated on the launch of a global news service in January that packages content from the two organizations together and distributes it to newspapers around the world. Washington Post articles also now Read More
In the Washington Post today, former deputy metro editor Rem Rieder reviews a new book from former Post sports columnist Dave Kindred called Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post.
The review underscores some of the reasons that foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, now of The New York Times, decided to leave the Post.
In another chapter, Kindred Read More
The Washington Post has relaunched and renamed its D.C. local news page as PostLocal.com.
As of now, two of the top three stories on Post Local are about shootings. The third is about a hit-and-run.
The move to secure its coverage of local news in Washingon precedes the launch of Albritton's TBD, Read More
The MSNBC-ification of the Washington Post is underway.
The paper, which just last week launched a
Hiring freeze be damned! The New York Times has poached The Washington Post’s celebrated Mideast correspondent, Anthony Shadid.
“I have license to hire when there are extraordinary opportunities or essential jobs we can’t fill from within,” said executive editor Bill Keller to Off the Record in an email. “This meets anyone’s test of an extraordinary Read More
Even when the evidence for something is overwhelmingly compelling, a small but noisy chunk of society will still resist it. The debate over evolution is an example of this. So is the present discussion of the Iranian election results.
The clear consensus in the West is that the fix was in—that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Read More
Even when the evidence for something is overwhelmingly compelling, a small but noisy chunk of society will still resist it. The debate over evolution is an example of this. So is the present discussion of the Iranian election results. The clear consensus in the West is that the fix was in—that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s supposed re-election Read More
Barack Obama won't complete his 100th day in office until next Wednesday, but already the reviews and commemorations are pouring in. Obama's has already been the most closely watched and dissected presidency of the media age, but the 100-day mark has been commemorated with similarly intense media analysis for every recent Read More
Barack Obama won't complete his 100th day in office until next Wednesday, but already the reviews and commemorations are pouring in. Obama's has already been the most closely-watched and dissected presidency of the media age, but the 100-day mark has been commemorated with similarly intense media analysis for every recent president. To look back at Read More
