Washington Post Class Gets Graded

Welcome to corporate America, journos! Reporters at The Washington Post will now be ranked with a multiple-choice job-performance assessment each year.

Accompanying an annual written evaluation, each reporter will be described as: “frequently exceeds expectations,” “sometimes exceeds expectations,” “meets expectations,” “sometimes fails to meet expectations,” or “frequently does not meet expectations.”

“It’s like a third-grade Read More

Can We Pump Up the Harvard Plagiarism Story?

How big will the Harvard plagiarism story get? That is to say, can you and I in the feverish proportion-lacking blogosphere push it up into the 9th circle of Frey-Ratherism?

You can’t deny it has real curb appeal. Harvard. A pretty girl. $500,000. But there’s got to be an actual new angle in terms of Read More

Globe Sees Kerry, If He Wins It All, As Ticket To Top

Under the blue electricity-saving lights of the two-story media tent at the Fleet Center, it’s nearly impossible to find any news. There are newspapers and news digests and news releases, but they pile up, unread and unreadable. Their material comes in two main varieties: There’s the stuff that everyone knows already happened: “A Ringing Call Read More

Off the Record

Under the blue electricity-saving lights of the two-story media tent at the Fleet Center, it’s nearly impossible to find any news. There are newspapers and news digests and news releases, but they pile up, unread and unreadable. Their material comes in two main varieties: There’s the stuff that everyone knows already happened: “A Ringing Call Read More