One of my favorite spots on washingtonpost.com is the blog directory. There you'll find the cob webs of the paper's site—all kinds of niche blogs, stale blogs, and this blog: "Friday Follies: Totally random polls."
Well, the Post is now thinking that its 90-odd blogs are just too much for one newspaper Web site.
Good thinkin'!
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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 [...]
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, [...]
