Competition makes everyone better, goes the truism. Proof, this morning at least, lies on pages A1 and C1 of the Washington Post. After a great deal of consultation yesterday, managers at the paper decided they'd be covering the death of novelist John Updike with both a news obituary as well as an "Appreciation" on the [...]

Remember yesterday's story about the Style section's "Appreciations"?
Here's a primer: The Washington Post's relatively new executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, is concerned about duplication in the paper's pages, and wants to limit the practice of writing both a news obituary and one of Style's "Appreciations" in the same edition. The solution, informed sources indicated, was to [...]