This morning, the Washington Post relaunched its business page online as part of a growing partnership with Bloomberg News. The two companies collaborated on the launch of a global news service in January that packages content from the two organizations together and distributes it to newspapers around the world. Washington Post articles also now Read More
In the Washington Post today, former deputy metro editor Rem Rieder reviews a new book from former Post sports columnist Dave Kindred called Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post.
The review underscores some of the reasons that foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, now of The New York Times, decided to leave the Post.
In another Read More
The Washington Post has relaunched and renamed its D.C. local news page as PostLocal.com.
As of now, two of the top three stories on Post Local are about shootings. The third is about a hit-and-run.
The move to secure its coverage of local news in Washingon precedes the launch of Read More
The MSNBC-ification of the Washington Post is underway.
The paper, which just last week launched a
Hiring freeze be damned! The New York Times has poached The Washington Post’s celebrated Mideast correspondent, Anthony Shadid.
“I have license to hire when there are extraordinary opportunities or essential jobs we can’t fill from within,” said executive editor Bill Keller to Off the Record in an email. “This meets anyone’s test of an Read More
Even when the evidence for something is overwhelmingly compelling, a small but noisy chunk of society will still resist it. The debate over evolution is an example of this. So is the present discussion of the Iranian election results.
The clear consensus in the West is that the fix was in—that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Read More
Even when the evidence for something is overwhelmingly compelling, a small but noisy chunk of society will still resist it. The debate over evolution is an example of this. So is the present discussion of the Iranian election results.
The clear consensus in the West is that the fix was in—that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s supposed Read More
Barack Obama won't complete his 100th day in office until next Wednesday, but already the reviews and commemorations are pouring in. Obama's has already been the most closely watched and dissected presidency of the media age, but the 100-day mark has been commemorated with similarly intense media analysis for every recent Read More
Barack Obama won’t complete his 100th day in office until next Wednesday, but already the reviews and commemorations are pouring in. Obama’s has already been the most closely-watched and dissected presidency of the media age, but the 100-day mark has been commemorated with similarly intense media analysis for every recent president.
To look back Read More
Just over four years ago, after George W. Bush was reelected by the smallest margin for an incumbent since Woodrow Wilson held off Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, a palpable sense somehow took hold in much of the media that Karl Rove's concept of a "permanent Republican majority" had been realized.
In this climate, it Read More
