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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:24pm on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | Politico has hired former Washington Post employee Jim Brady to launch a local news site in Washington, D.C. Writing at Slate, Jack Shafer offered him some advice on October 29, 2009:
"Who doesn't adore Jim Brady, the former executive editor of the Washingtonpost.com? Even I like him, and I don't like anybody. He's proved himself as a reporter, a manager, and an executive, and unlike most people in the business, he's not especially full of himself. And if I'm wrong and Brady really is full of himself, he doesn't let on.
That Politico owner Robert Allbritton of Allbritton Communications has hired Brady to lead a new local Washington, D.C., news site indicates a willingness to go head-to-head in competition with the Washington Post. Allbritton already competes with the Post for political news with Politico, whose founding editors also came from the Washington Post Co. By adding a native-to-the-Web news organization to this portfolio that includes Politico, a local ABC affiliate (WJLA-TV), and a 24-hour cable station (News Channel 8), Allbritton will have surrounded the Post on four sides."
The full story:
http://www.slate.com/id/2233836/
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:57pm on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | Politico has hired Jonathan Allen as congressional reporter. He was previously political reporter at Congressional Quarterly.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:47pm on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | Politico is hypocritico when it comes to the wall between reporting and money, Harper's magazine reported on July 14, 2009:
"Politico recently caused a stir with its excellent story about the Washington Post’s attempt to raise money with “salons” at the home of its publisher. But Politico itself is hardly virginal when it comes to the wall between reporting and chasing revenue.
Last August, it co-sponsored a party at the Democratic National Convention with the Glover Park Group, a top Washington lobbying and consulting firm."
The full story:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/07/hbc-90005330
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:39pm on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | The very smart and acerbic Michael Wolff raves about Politico in the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair:
"Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable."
The full story:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/wolff200908
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 7:08pm on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | The Obama White House uses Politico to disseminate political gossip, argues Michael Wolff in the July 2009 issue of Vanity Fair magazine:
"Politico, the politics-focused site that began during the last political campaign and is now trying to build an off-election-cycle business, has become the prime outlet for Obama White House gossip—the fuel of the day’s political kibitzing, the candy by which an odd intimacy is created with both the media and the political hard core. It’s politics as a short take—politics as an item. “They use it for the quick pops. They get the headline out there. They short-circuit analysis. They keep momentum going. All day, rat-a-tat-tat,” says one pressroom-watcher. “They essentially write it themselves.”
The full story:
www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/wolff200907
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:02pm on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | May 2009: Jim Brady, previously the editor of the Washington Post web site, has been hired by Politico as a consultant.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:05pm on Sunday, April 19th, 2009 | Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who works tirelessly to dumb down reporting, accuses Politico of dumbing down reporting:
"In the digital world, success often turns on a quick-click mentality in which an item, tidbit, morsel, video or sexy image is all the bait that's needed. No one, not even august newspapers, is immune.
Politico, the Web operation and newspaper launched more than two years ago by two Washington Post veterans, is actually a smart and substantive site. But in its relentless pursuit of traffic -- not all that different from the networks' relentless pursuit of ratings -- Politico sometimes plays up the novel, the fleeting, the provocative take that briefly titillates but evaporates within hours. And that has some critics accusing the site of dumbing down the art of reporting.
"We make no apologies for trying to present news in a way that will grab readers by the lapels," says John Harris, Politico's editor-in-chief. "If you're trying to keep a site current, there's a strong incentive to move quickly....
"I totally reject the premise that the only way to prosper on the Web is through quick and ultimately insubstantial bites of news. That is not true, not in my experience."
Read the full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/12/AR2009041202807.html
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 7:07pm on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | February 2009: In the article "Scoop Factory" published by The New Republic, Gabriel Sherman looks inside Politico:
"If the 2004 campaign belonged to the blogs, this year's presidential contest was defined by the rise of the Web-print venture founded by banking scion and emerging media mogul Robert Allbritton and headed by Washington Post veterans John Harris and Jim VandeHei. From the start, their aim with Politico was to combine the Web's rapid-fire capacity with the legitimacy of traditional newspapering. Journalistically, their strategy was to out-report and outpace the newspapers that dominated election coverage, to get links up before readers reached their desks and BlackBerries in the morning, and to keep the news items going all afternoon for the prime-time cable pundits to digest at night.
And it worked. Politico succeeded in muscling its way into the political journalism firmament by the sheer volume of reporting and a shrewd--some might say obsessive--focus on the gossipy Beltway scoops and gaffes that appeal to the tabloid sensibility of Drudge and cable news. Politico's readership spiked during the election, attracting 4.6 million unique readers in September 2008 (that's about one-third of the Post's online readership). The following month, Nielsen ranked Politico the ninth-most-visited newspaper website in the country. Politico broke stories about John McCain forgetting how many homes he owned and Sarah Palin's six-figure wardrobe budget--stories that dominated the news cycle for days and forced establishment papers like The New York Times to follow with front-page stories. On Election Day, Chris Matthews crowed on "Hardball" that Politico was the "hottest political team in town," and wondered "is that still around, The Washington Post?""
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