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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 6:29pm on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | February 19, 2009: In the article "How Low Will Newspapers' Ad Revenues Go," Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post noted that the New York Times web site averaged 19.5 million unique visitors each month in 2008. He added:
"Thriving newspaper Web sites may be popular -- USA Today and The Washington Post also drew more than 10 million monthly visitors last year -- but they are slowly strangling print circulation. Online ad revenue remains far too modest to support the sizable reporting staffs that make newspapers worth reading and enable them to do real digging.
"We have to find some method to allow people to pay for content and make it easy, just one click," says Walter Isaacson, Time magazine's former managing editor. "The main problem isn't that people won't pay 15 or 25 cents for today's Washington Post. It's the rigmarole of putting in credit card numbers and e-mail addresses. We need to allow impulse purchases of content.""
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:24pm on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | On January 28, 2009, the New York Times reported that the Washington Post will no longer print Book World, its Sunday book review section:
In another sign that literary criticism is losing its profile in newspapers, The Washington Post has decided to shutter the print version of Book World, its Sunday stand-alone book review section, and shift reviews to space inside two other sections of the paper.
“I think it’s going to be a great disappointment to a lot of readers,” said Marie Arana, Book World’s former editor.
The last issue of Book World will appear in its tabloid print version on Feb. 15 but will continue to be published online as a distinct entity. The Post said in a statement Wednesday that in the printed newspaper Sunday book content will be split between Outlook, the commentary section, and Style & Arts. Book World will occasionally appear as a stand-alone print section oriented around special themes like summer reading or children’s books.
Book World was one of the last remaining stand-alone book review sections in the country, along with The New York Times Book Review. The Post’s move comes as the company, like most other newspaper businesses across the country, has been hobbled by a protracted downturn in advertising. “The advertising in Book World didn’t justify the amount of space that we dedicated each week to books coverage,” Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of The Post, said in a phone interview. “But we write about books, and we will continue to write about books because they are important to our audience and our readers.”
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 9:53pm on Monday, December 29th, 2008 | On December 22, 2008, the Washington City Paper reported on the departure of Jim Brady as executive editor of the Washington Post web site:
"Washingtonpost.com will soon be looking for a new executive editor, following today’s announcement that Jim Brady will soon be leaving that post. Then again, it may not be looking to fill the slot. Over the next year–or perhaps even the next six months–the Washington Post’s newsroom and the Arlington offices of washingtonpost.com will merge, and a stand-alone digital chief may not be part of the new power structure."
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Heather Sickels
Boulder, CO | Posted at 2:57pm on Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Writing on the Gawker.com NYC blog site on July, 7 2008:
The Washington Post named former Wall Street Journal editor Marcus Brauchli its new executive editor, replacing Leonard Downie Jr. after 17 years.
The transition comes thanks to a new publisher, Katherine Weymouth, who wants to put her own stamp on the paper.With Brauchli, it will be hard to avoid doing just that. While the Post has remade itself over the past decade as a local paper with a focus on national politics, Brauchli is basically a foreign news reporter who, prior to a replacing Paul Steiger atop the Journal masthead, edited global and national news.
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Nicole
Broadkill Beach, DE | Posted at 1:52pm on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 | I heard an NPR interview with the Post's publisher Katharine Weymouth. It is interesting to learn that she is the 5th generation in her family to play a significant role in the Washington Posts history. She is a single mom by choice and sounded brilliant and an amazing woman in the interview.
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