No huge surprise here, but it's finally official: Tom Sherwood is now the resident analyst on the weekly Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi.
Since Jonetta Rose Barras left the Friday noon talk show on WAMU-FM last May over a pay dispute, the show has been rotating in guest analysts (including, now and again, yours truly). But [...]
As noted in today's LL Daily, David Brooks, in his New York Times column this morning, painted Ward 3 with the typically broad brush you might know and love from such armchair sociological works Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive.
A sample: "On any given Saturday, half the people in Ward Three are arranging panel [...]
If Jeff Jarvis had his way, this post would not exist. In his new book "What Would Google Do?," Jarvis lays out a number of rules to help dead tree newspaper types and corporations in general face the new online reality–including "do what you do best and link to the rest."
Just like the newspaper industry [...]
I heard a commercial for the Washington Times this morning that had the narrator boasting that more power-brokers in this town get their news from that paper than anywhere else.
The radio spot ended with a tag line: "You can tell who's reading!"
I'd never heard it before, but I love it.
"You can tell who's reading!"
The Washington [...]
Oof. Bad day in Rosslyn.
LL follows up on DCRTV's reporting earlier today of massive layoffs at Allbritton Communication's TV operations (ABC affiliate WJLA-TV and NewsChannel 8).
As far as on-air talent goes, reporter Andrea McCarren is out, DCRTV says, as well as reporter Alisa Parenti, sports guy Greg Toland, and reporters Sarah Lee and Emily Schmidt. [...]
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, [...]
The following memo went out this afternoon to employees at the Washington Post. For a long time, Posties have been relatively immune from long-winded memos filled with corporatespeak. Now they get this, complete with a mandate to read every word.
Let this thing do the talking for itself:
Please read this entire e-mail carefully. [...]
Dave Morgan has written some very definitive words on OnlineSPIN. Here's the critical line from his piece:
"I am not going to write about newspapers anymore."
Morgan doesn't leave this drastic statement simply hanging there. Like any strong columnist, he explains why he's going to these great lengths:
I no longer believe that the industry [...]
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray apparently finally got around to reading Amanda Ripley's Time magazine cover story on Michelle Rhee that ran last month. And he didn't like what he read. He posted a letter Friday to Time editors expressing "outrage" at a line in Ripley's story.
Elliot Spitzer chats up a reporter about his new gig at Slate, and the above is what Huffington Post's front page editor comes up with for a visual? Because if it weren't for that picture of Ashley Alexandra Dupré, Huff Po's enlightened readers would have had no idea who the fuck Elliot Spitzer was? (The [...]
The Vatican's D.C.-based media operation offered a common deal to eight or nine news organizations this week: We'll give you the details on an important Vatican position paper on biomedical ethics, so long as you agree to embargo the information.
The embargo time was a bit unorthodox, to be sure: 6 a.m. today–a time that [...]
Today's new strategy memo from Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth filled its quota of bland and unspecific principles. And on the specifics front, it left quite a deficit.
Yet if you poke around the Post newsroom a bit, you can find an initiative or two that has some beef and some direction. Take the Book [...]
In which Erik extols the unexpected joys of the Sunday Examiner and introduces a new fuego feature: the battle of the Spanish-language weeklies!
If you are a reporter with the cop beat, there is no story more loathsome than the cop-gets-transferred story. These stories are boring and usually filled with anonymous hand-wringing and inside-baseball org charts that in the end offer very little consequences for the average reader. The only people who care about police officials getting a [...]
Yeah, we know, you're still in a post-coital stupor over Obama's victory last night, and all you want to hear are sweet nothings whispered in your ear about our country's new love object/president-elect. But in a brilliant counter-intuitive editorial strategy, we at City Paper are following up the most historic election since 1876, when His [...]
