Yesterday, I interviewed Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli for a story I was writing on the Washington Post Magazine. I was working on allegations that Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth may have played a part in killing a magazine story written by a freelancer who happened to be a friend of hers.
From this point forward, the Washington Post newsroom pledges to start buzzing long before, like, noon each day. More reporters and editors, says Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, will start coming in earlier.
The reason for the switch? Check out the memo after the jump.
Washington Post reporter Paul Duggan spent four months reporting and writing a two-part series on a juicy local murder case. The results were published on Monday and Tuesday, to great public acclaim. Yet faithful subscribers who scoop up their paper on the front steps each day found none of it in their pages—only a few [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli sent out a 1,700-word memo—"Memo No. 1"—that launched the re-organization of the paper's newsroom. As management memos go, it was a beaut—precise and elegant in its language and determined in its tone, all with the goal of creating a structure that would better position [...]
If you see any typos in today's Washington Post, there's a good reason. Very little work went down at the 15th and L HQ yesterday, what with all the chatter about the reorganization plan handed down by the paper's top editors.
Much of the gossip continues to center on the plans of acclaimed Metro columnist [...]
As discussed in an amazing earlier post, the Washington Post blew up its newsroom today. Via the most masterfully written, almost inspiring, re-org memo, Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli changed forever the way that Posties take stories, blog items, and Tweets, and channel them to the paper's various platforms. The memo is not only [...]
Marcus Brauchli has been executive editor of the Washington Post for nearly eight months. A lot of that time he's spent burrowing into coverage of the global economic meltdown, having meetings with key individuals, and banging away at his BlackBerry. Changes, as is customary at the Post, have come slowly and cautiously, such as the [...]
If you're an editor at the Washington Post, don't get too comfy at your desk. Because your bosses may be getting ready to move you.
A wide-ranging editorial reorganization is afoot at the paper, and staffers are busy exchanging whatever details they can pick up. But they're hard to come by. Several top editors confirmed [...]
Date:
Friday, March 13, 2009 03:30PM
Subject:
A Message from Marcus, Liz, Raju and Sandy
Beginning March 30, we will make several changes in The Post’s presentation of business news and some Style-section features.
Our business coverage will shift into the main news package in the A Section Monday through Saturday. We will have a new business and economics display [...]
Gene Weingarten must have been pleased, kind of. After all, it's not every week that his Washington Post Magazine column, "Below the Beltway," gets a heavy dose of promotion on page A2. The promotion came in the form of an Editor's Note that said the following:
"The headline, illustration, and text of 'Below the Beltway,' [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Here's a memo that just reached the desks of Washington Posties, from Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli:
The 10 official inaugural balls scheduled for Jan. 20 to mark the beginning of the Obama administration are partisan political celebrations. Washington Post journalists should attend them only as journalists, not as participants. This is the same policy The [...]
Post Editor Brauchli writes about Phil Bennett leaving:
To the Staff:
I’d like to thank Phil Bennett for his extraordinary contributions to The Post newsroom and in particular for his assistance in helping to smooth the leadership transition over the last several months.
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 [...]
