Washington Post honchos sound much like execs at other publications when they talk about the platform of the future: the Web!
But that doesn't mean that paper is committed to investing in this dynamic medium, to judge from a recent circular issued by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.

A bit of the NFL may be coming to the Washington Post.
No, this region's premier daily isn't signing anyone to a multimillion-dollar contract or deploying the cover-two on Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. But the paper may soon be designating a platoon of "franchise players."

As first reported on this channel a while back, the Washington Post is looking to undercut its existing reporting staff by creating a kinda junior reporter position.
The salary for these positions is in the range of $34,000, well below the starting minimum salary of a Post reporter and less than half of the newsroom average [...]

To anyone who believes that upper management at the Washington Post isn't moving quickly to reduce the cost of getting out the news, take a look at the paper's latest maneuver. It's called a "Community Journalist" position.
In a Jan. 29 letter to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the paper's newsroom union, the Post proposes that [...]