Next week, the Washington Post's top managers will meet for a big briefing on the paper's new strategy, an exercise that'll inevitably lead to a skinnier paper. But one part is being subtracted even before the big hubbub. It's among the skinniest of the paper's constituent parts. Here's the memo from newsroom leadership on the [...]
A belated kudos to the Washington Post editorial page, for nailing a thoroughly reported editorial-cum-investigative piece on the DeOnte Rawlings situation. Though we've already cited the piece in our fabulous Loose Lips Daily, a more complete breakdown is in order.
Rawlings, 14, was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer on Sept. 17, 2007. Subsequent [...]
Now, we all know that the former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright is an accomplished individual. She skillfully handled the powder keg that was the parts of the former Yugoslavia and coined perhaps the boldest rationale ever for using the U.S. military, in a discussion with Colin Powell: "What’s the point of you saving [...]
The one-drop rule of classifying race gets a drop-kick in the Washington Post, courtesy of Marie Arana, the editor of the Post's Book World section.
And the big news for the next couple of days will focus on the playoff chances of the Redskins, who lost to this blogger's favorite team on Sunday at [...]
Let's inventory the things that aren't happening on this day before Thanksgiving.
Traffic is moving pretty smoothly, according to WTOP.
Big headlines say Gates is a likely holdover at the Pentagon. Gee, didn't we hear that as far back as, like, Election Night?
Struggling to keep its Web site lit up, the Washington Post goes [...]
A ghoulish sequence of events in Chevy Chase, a part of the District known for its Mayberry quality: Michael and Virginia Spevak, both in their 60s, were found dead at their home on the 5300 block of Belt Road. Their car, a 2005 Toyota Scion, was found torched in another neighborhood. City Desk coverage with [...]
City Desk has consistently returned thumbs-down verdicts on Washington Post Staff Writer DeNeen Brown and her literary devices. Any loyal Post reader knows the Brown MO–excessive second person narratives, purple prose bleeding off the page, and lots of italics.
Today, though, Brown pressed CTRL+i to stupendous effect. In a piece co-authored with Richard Leiby and titled [...]
Quick: Arrange in order of popularity the following columnists from the Washington Post Writers Group:
Ellen Goodman
David Broder
Gene Robinson
E.J. Dionne
George Will
Kathleen Parker
Charles Krauthammer
Ruben Navarrette
Correct answers after the jump.
The Washington Post Co. today named Vijay Ravindran as its chief digital officer. Ravindran is a true Web entrepreneur, having guided the technical operations of Catalist LLC, the voter-database firm.
Throughout her tenure as ombudsman, Deborah Howell has made the calls, studied the data, and found the documents that feed an informed take on the paper's controversies. She's a reporter, through and through. And any good reporter knows when to take a shortcut, even when the topic is reporting. Here's a little note she sent [...]
*A "near-certainty" is how one account puts the chances that Eric Holder will become the country's next attorney general. Most of the accounts of Holder's past service are glowing, with the standard Washington pundits saying all the right things about the guy. But any good vetting of this man's past has to include his tenure [...]
OK, it's on.
Phil Mendelson laid out why Peter Nickles should be voted down, and now Jack Evans has moved to amend, changing the disapproval resolution to an approval resolution.
5:11 PM: Amended bill passes by same tally. Tommy Wells passed on his vote at first, probably to see if Kwame would take a stand. He didn't; [...]
On Monday, the New York Times announced another successful poaching operation: David Segal, a New York City-based reporter for the Washington Post’s Style section, would be joining the Gray Lady as a business features writer.
The Times’ press release reflects an institutional expertise in crafting job descriptions. Segal’s new gig, it says, will be to [...]
Pretty big personnel news on the East-coast media elite front: David Segal, an outstanding Washington Post feature writer, is jumping to the New York Times.
Here's the release from the Times:
From: Timothy O'Brien
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:36 PM
To: [New York Times business journalists]
Subject: BizDay Hires David Segal
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*Interesting development on the comeback-from-disgrace beat. Sunday's Washington Post has an opinion piece from an expert on how to regulate Wall Street. Well, that certainly couldn't be Ayn Rand lover Alan Greenspan. Or just about anyone who's [...]
