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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 7:30pm on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | Washington Post To Raise Cash By Offering Wine Tastings With Reporters
Washingtonian.com reported on November 4, 2009:
"Having taken a beating for trying to set up evening salons where reporters could mingle with corporate types who’d pay big money for the privilege, the Washington Post now is attempting a more benign way to raise revenue: wine tastings—with reporters as guests.
The failed salon plan would have brought reporters together with politicians and businessmen for “off-the-record” chats, sponsored by corporations for as much as $25,000 a pop.
“Admission is normally $15 for TastePost members,” advertising relations manager Jennifer Keegan writes in an e-mail invite to Post staffers, “but as an employee you can get the reduced admission price of just $10.”
The full story: http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/14043.html
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:13pm on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are ending their joint news service, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post reported on October 1, 2009:
"One of the oldest corporate marriages in the newspaper business ended in divorce Wednesday.
The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, a syndicate with more than 600 clients around the world, is being dissolved with the agreement of both sides. The two newspapers, which each owned 50 percent of the venture, will now compete to provide their articles to subscribers to the joint service."
The full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093004249.html
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:21pm on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | Providing further evidence that good journalists make bad comedians, the Washington Post has shut down its online video series "Mouthpiece Theater."
Howard Kurtz reported the story on August 6, 2009:
"Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli killed the satirical video series Wednesday after harsh criticism of a joke about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, which prompted him to pull the latest episode from the paper's Web site Friday night. The Post staffers who appeared in the videos, Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza, agreed with the decision and apologized in separate interviews.
"I don't think the series worked as they intended," Brauchli said. "It was meant to be funny and insightful and translate the superb journalism Chris and Dana do in print and online into a new format."
"Mouthpiece Theater" was designed as a sendup of pompous punditry, with Milbank, the paper's Washington Sketch columnist, and Cillizza, a White House correspondent who writes The Fix blog, appearing with oversized pipes and smoking jackets. But its comedic style drew catcalls from online critics, which intensified after Friday's episode about the kind of beer various politicians might drink. Milbank said he couldn't reveal to whom President Obama would serve a brew called Mad Bitch Beer, which was followed by a brief shot of Clinton."
The full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080502394.html
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:25pm on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | Paul Farhi wrote an insightful story about the transition to digital television in the United States, published in the Washington Post on June 10, 2009. It's titled "Broadcast TV Never Converted Its Digital Dream" and begins:
"It was going to be glorious, positively Jetsonian. With digital broadcasting, the television industry once promised, the TV set would be transformed into a miraculous info-appliance, the modern household's electronic brain.
No longer would the TV be a mere conduit for sitcoms and soap operas. With digital broadcasts, the TV -- or perhaps the PCTV -- would become a shopping portal, an information node, an Internet-surfing console. Thanks to digital's limitless interactive capabilities, you'd be able to call up player stats during ballgames, play video games with people across the country or take college-level courses from your couch. Each night while you slept, a digital "data" broadcast would send a customized daily newspaper to your set-top box; all you'd have to do in the morning was hit "print."
Well, the future officially arrives this week, and it's . . . not exactly as advertised."
The full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/09/AR2009060903144.html
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:19pm on Monday, May 25th, 2009 | The Washington Post won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for commentary on April 20, 2009.
The Pulitzer was awarded to Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post for his eloquent columns on the 2008 presidential campaign that focus on the election of the first African-American president, showcasing graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic picture.
The prize is awarded for distinguished commentary, in print or online or both, ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 8:40pm on Monday, May 11th, 2009 | The Washington Post promoted Shirley M. Carswell from assistant managing editor to deputy managing editor, effective May 18, 2009. She replaced Milton Coleman, who became a senior editor.
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Heather Sickels
Boulder, CO | Posted at 1:41pm on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | February 25, 2009:
The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO) reported net income of $65.7 million ($6.87 per share) for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2008, down from $288.6 million ($30.19 per share) for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2007. Net income for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $18.8 million ($2.01 per share), compared with $82.9 million ($8.71 per share) for the fourth quarter of 2007.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:21pm on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | The White House press corps is useless, Ana Marie Cox wrote in the Washington Post on April 19, 2009:
"Here are some stories that reporters working the White House beat have produced in the past few months: Pocket squares are back! The president is popular in Europe. Vegetable garden! Joe Biden occasionally says things he probably regrets. Puppy!
It's not that the reporters covering the president are bad at their jobs. Most are experienced journalists at the top of their game -- and they're wasted at the White House, where scoops are doled out, not uncovered. The day of a typical White House correspondent consists, literally, of waiting to be told things. Legitimate security concerns and a tightly scripted political world keep the presidential press corps physically corralled and informationally hostage."
The full article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041701900.html
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:28pm on Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | Ben Bradlee was cornered by Diane Clehane of FishbowlNY on April 1, 2009. Evidently Clehane was so in awe of the man that she failed to notice that he seems to have no idea how many newspapers are published in the USA. Clehane wrote:
"I was able to collar legendary newspaper man Ben Bradlee before he sat down with his family. I just had to ask him what he thought about the obit currently being written for the newspaper industry. The former The Washington Post editor wasn't about to buy into all the gloom and doom. "I'm actually quite hopeful," he told me of his survival of the fittest approach. "When I was editor of the Post, there was something like 7,500 papers and now there's 1,200. But I don't think it's such a bad thing if there's a few less papers -- if they're better. The Washington Post is losing money at the moment, but I think things will settle down. As long as the surviving papers are good, it's not going to be a disaster.""
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:14pm on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | February 19, 2009: The Washington City Paper reported that the Washington Post will get a redesign:
"The Washington Post is undergoing a remarkable shrinking act, with some sections folding and others taking on more complicated identities. Making it all happen will require some tweaks to the paper’s design. The paper’s Web site, washingtonpost.com, has long had layout problems of its own—a crowded homepage that poses something of a gantlet for users in search of their favorite blogs and articles.
That’s where Roger Black comes in. The paper has contracted with this renowned New York design guru to redo its newspaper and Web site. In recent weeks, Black has been meeting with staffers to get their ideas on freshening the look of the Post brand.
Black is a celebrated talent who has engineered the look of many “content-based media” sites, including MSNBC.com, Discovery.com, and @Home. On his site, Black conveys the thinking behind his work: “Media design is not just window-dressing. A redesign is not a ‘face lift.’ Design is the structural link between the customers and the product.”
One observer has a less philosophical view of how Black appeals to his clients: “He designs newspaper sites that look like newspapers.”"
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