Comments on: Breaking: Reported Dismissals at Post Web Site

By: Bibi

Bibi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:05:24 +0000

I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

By: District Limerick: On Linking - City Desk - Washington City Paper

District Limerick: On Linking - City Desk - Washington City Paper — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:45:40 +0000

[...] web staffers merging and shrinking The WaPo has done some rethinking As one who confines Herself to five lines I know a fair bit about [...]

By: Por qué Politico bebe de la crisis del Washington Post « One Way Or Another

Por qué Politico bebe de la crisis del Washington Post « One Way Or Another — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:32:18 +0000

[...] de los corresponsales serán recolocados en la capital, otros tres asistentes serán despedidos. Otras marchas han tenido menos eco en el extranjero, pero nos dan una idea de la confusión que inspiran los [...]

By: Will the touch tablet save professional journalism? « Mastering Multimedia

Will the touch tablet save professional journalism? « Mastering Multimedia — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:26:14 +0000

[...] The print folk, locked in their silos, are defending their turf as they make their last stand. Online departments are taking the brunt of the next wave of job cuts. If newspapers can’t hold the line on circulation and revenue, it will soon be curtains for the [...]

By: Sideshow Mel

Sideshow Mel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:14:30 +0000

And Robert is right that there has been quality journalism done by the people at WPNI. Travis Fox in particular is very good. I should've made that clearer when I said the site "was" only posting print stuff years ago. But most of the posters here simply want to whack The Post for whatever reason, and have no clue what it actually does. "I read the PR Newswire, I know what reporters do." It sucks that WPNI people are getting laid off. But plenty of print people have already been shown the door, and more are headed that way. No one's vanquishing anyone.

By: End the culture wars in journalism (wishful thinking)

End the culture wars in journalism (wishful thinking) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:15:20 +0000

[...] see this animosity in its full froth, just check out the comments on the report on the cuts at Washington indy, The City Paper. A commenter only identified as Sideshow Mel says: For many years, The Post’s website was [...]

By: This week in media musings: A full reboot for news, and a rude run-in over paywalls | Mark Coddington

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:36:42 +0000

[...] in America other than The Los Angeles Times: The online and print departments are merging, and it’s the Web folks that are getting the axe. Former employee Derek Willis and Mathew Ingram of The Globe and Mail in [...]

By: Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads | Stocks and Sectors

Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads | Stocks and Sectors — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:24:21 +0000

[...] recent cuts at the Washington Post (WPO) — as reported by Politico and Washington’s City Paper — have once again brought to the surface a culture clash that has been going on in mainstream [...]

By: Robert MacMillan

Robert MacMillan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:48:16 +0000

I wrote two typos into my comment. I meant to say "is right as right can be," not "it right as right can be." I also wrote "the reporting doesn't come from somewhere." I should have written, "the reporting doesn't come from nowhere."

By: Robert MacMillan

Robert MacMillan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:46:12 +0000

Rereading the comments today, I'm dismayed to see that Sideshow Mel, while being wrong as wrong can be about what the Web staff does, it right as right can be about journalism. I wish people who knock the "mainstream media" would remember that it's true: the reporting doesn't come from somewhere. You have to pay someone to spend all day (and all night, seven days a week) to get it and report it. Mel's detractors say that the Web presentation matters. That's true too. That's why this is a tragedy; the Web and the print folks at the Post should work together, and one should not vanquish the other. The Post, if it wants to get out of its money pit, needs all these talented people. They've cut deeply already; doing more isn't surgical, it's harmful. On a frivolous note: The Post newsroom at 1150 15th. It's spacious and it's cramped at the same time. There, that's one argument settled.

By: Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads | Reaction Radio

Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads | Reaction Radio — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:15:54 +0000

By: Has the WaPo chosen paper over web?

Has the WaPo chosen paper over web? — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:52:06 +0000

[...] recent cuts at the Washington Post — as reported by Politico and Washington’s City Paper — have once again brought to the surface a culture clash that has been going on in mainstream [...]

By: Digiman

Digiman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:10:03 +0000

First of all, there's nothing particularly sacred about a Web job. Some of them are good, some of them are no doubt slackers and incompetent. They don't have union protection, so it makes sense for the Post to weed out the nonproductive before putting them under that umbrella, using the excuse of a reorganization. Don't shed too many tears -- the Webby types are better positioned to get jobs at a competitor. And those dinosaurs in the print newsroom had best keep an eye over the shoulder -- they're next. Though, of course, there have been plenty of them eased out over the past year. You can pitch it as Web v. print, and that's just the way owners and management likes you all, divided and bickering among yourselves.

By: annoyed

annoyed — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:37:43 +0000

Anyone paying attention -- and in my experience many print people never looked further than the treatment of their byline on the site -- would have seen countless demonstrations on quality, original and award-winning content on a daily basis at wpni. It was always amazing when you encountered many print journalists who could only tell you a fraction of what had been on the site and had missed most of the amazing work being cited. And, more than anything, it's this kind of "real" journalist nonsense that has crippled the post.

By: J

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:56:39 +0000

Tim - you must have just found a box where they were all taken or one that wasnt delivered to. A paper definitely went out, there was anew one with fridays date in front of my office as of yesterday.

Try a metro stop- they sometimes have multiple boxes