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Why Did the Washington Post Magazine Run Another Wanda Fleming Column?
A seasoned consumer of news had every reason to furrow a brow at the XX Files column in last week’s Washington Post Magazine. The first-person essay touts the author’s one-woman campaign against kiddie thieves in a local pharmacy.
Here’s a sampling: “As the child scurries past me with his pilfered beverage, I reach out for the hood of his coat. I pull him in and press my hand on his back. ‘Put it back,’ I say. Though he’s the one in trouble, my own heart races. A whimper seeps from his mouth; a gurgle of stuttered syllables follows. ‘I’m s-s-orry. I’m s-sorry,’ he repeats.”
It’s a powerful, well-told episode, but how do we know it ever happened?
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Post’s Universal News Desk Memo: EPIC
An amazing memo. Also, anyone else of the opinion that Ju-Don Roberts has the best name at the Post?
The Universal News Desk we are creating is central to our efforts to edit and package stories, graphics, photos and videos in a way that will retain and indeed attract a far wider range of new readers on every platform — web, mobile, print, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Key to this effort will be Deputy Ju-Don Roberts, whose knowledge of online news will help shape our efforts to grow on these new media platforms. In addition, we have recruited some of our best editors to join the Desk in five key areas.
WaPo Working with Roger Black
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.
Like all deliberative processes at the Post, this one won’t spawn a revolution. “Instead of a redesign, it’ll be much more of a cleaning up of visually contrasting elements,” says a Post source, referring to “typefaces changing from section to section,” among other minor design problems.
WaPo Names Two New Managing Editors
More re-org at the upper reaches of the Washington Post: Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli today puts in his own layer of top lieutenants, announcing that longtime newsie Liz Spayd and Raju Narisetti, formerly of India’s Mint newspaper and the Wall Street Journal, would serve as a dual managing editors.
Details from the Post memo:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—January 13, 2009—The Washington Post today named Elizabeth Spayd and Raju Narisetti as Managing Editors of The Washington Post. Both will report to Executive Editor Marcus W. Brauchli.
Ms. Spayd and Mr. Narisetti will share responsibility for The Post’s award-winning journalism, whether in print, online and on mobile devices, and they will lead the integration of The Post’s print and online newsrooms.
Ms. Spayd, who has been editor of washingtonpost.com since 2007, will oversee the gathering, editing and production of news. Her brief will include political, general, business, foreign and metropolitan news, as well as The Post’s news desk and the print newspaper’s day-to-day production.
