The Washington Post

Revolving Door: 'NYT' news, WHCD criticism, ABC & Univision - Posted May 8, 2012
The New York Times started a new biweekly video series today, all about street style. The premiere episode profiles... [PRNewser]

Revolving Door: 'NYT' news, WHCD criticism, ABC & Univision - Posted May 8, 2012
The New York Times started a new biweekly video series today, all about street style. The premiere episode profiles... [AgencySpy]

'WaPo,' 'Guardian' Social Readers Bleeding Users - Posted May 7, 2012
Do you remember all the stories about the success of Facebook ... [AllFacebook]

Two More Awards for New Yorker Freelance Writer Sarah Stillman - Posted May 7, 2012
Sarah Stillman is a New York-based journalist. She has written about Iraq and Afghanistan for several publications or online sites, including Slate, The Washington Post, the Nation and the Dallas Mornin... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo Names John Temple New Managing Editor - Posted March 29, 2012
The Washington Post has named John Temple its new Managing Editor. Temple was most recently the founding editor of Honolulu Civil Beat, an online news site. Prior to that he was the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the ... [FishbowlNY]

Word to Semantic Web Startups: The JOBS Act Is On - Posted March 28, 2012
If there's one thing the Semantic Web arena is full of, it is start-ups. In fact, the slew of creative and innovative ideas out there coming from young companies is one of the reasons for the first Start-Up Competition to be held at the Semantic Tech & Business... [semanticweb.com]

WaPo, New York Times, WSJ Run Same Photo on Front Page - Posted March 9, 2012
It's extremely rare for thr... [FishbowlNY]

The Pros and Cons of Covering the Election on Twitter - Posted February 16, 2012
Social media's imprint on presidential election coverage continues to expand. As Jim Roberts, assistant managing editor at The New York Times... [PRNewser]

Washington Post Invites Readers To Subscribe To Staff On Facebook - Posted January 19, 2012
Today, Mark S. Luckie -- the founder of 10,000 Words, and now full-time social media guy at WaPo -- invited reade... [TVSpy]

5 Journalism Panels at SXSW Interactive 2012 - Posted January 19, 2012
You may remember our post from back in August which featured fifteen journalism-related panels which were up for voting for inclusion into the 2012 SXSW sc... [10,000 Words]

Facebook's Timeline Launches - Posted December 15, 2011
Facebook today posted that users now officially can upgrade their profiles to its Facebook Timeline by heading here. Timeline, as Mark Zuckerberg described in September, is ... [semanticweb.com]

Showing Up Is Only Part of the News Media Battle - Posted November 9, 2011
The decision about which news stories media outlets cover live has been front and center in the wake of Monday's press conference with one of Herman Cain's accusers, Sharon Bialek, and her lawyer, Gloria Allred. So naturall... [PRNewser]

Revolving Door: CNN, 'Harper's Bazaar,' YouTube, and More - Posted October 31, 2011
CNN is revamping its morning programming, bringing Ashleigh Banfield and Soledad ... [PRNewser]

Revolving Door: Murdoch's Successor, 'Times' Testing, and a 'WaPo' Partnership - Posted August 12, 2011
Rupert Murdoch sat in on News Corp.'s earnings call the other day and, according ... [PRNewser]

Former Engadget EIC to Pen Column for The Washington Post - Posted August 10, 2011
Joshua Topolsky, the former Editor-in-Chief at AOL's Engadget and founding Editor-in-Chief of The Verge, is going to have a weekly column in The Washington Post. The column, which will cover technology culture and reviews, ... [FishbowlNY]

Revolving Door: The Daily Beast Talk Show, 'TIME' Everywhere, and More - Posted July 21, 2011
The Daily Beast has made a few new hires in order to launch a new venture: an online talk show. Sources told The New Yor... [PRNewser]

Revolving Door: 'In the Arena,' 'News of the World,' 'WaPo,' and More - Posted July 7, 2011
Two big media names have gotten the ax. Eliot Spitzer's comeback vehicle In The Arena was cancelled. CNN's evening schedul... [AgencySpy]

Revolving Door: 'In the Arena,' 'News of the World,' 'WaPo,' and More - Posted July 7, 2011
Two big media names have gotten the ax. Eliot Spitzer's comeback vehicle In The Arena was cancelled. CNN's evening schedul... [PRNewser]

WaPo, NYT Ask Readers To Help Sift Through Sarah Palin's 24,000 Emails - Posted June 10, 2011
The State of Alaska will today release 24,199 of Sarah Palin's emails from her tenure as governor. The Washington Post and The New York Times are ... [10,000 Words]

Social Sharing Buttons: Too Much Or Not Enough? - Posted May 26, 2011
News can break at a moment's notice, and whether you have the exclusive scoop or not, chances are that readers coming to your website to read the story will want to share it with their friends and family. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social networking services can help give your story... [10,000 Words]

Media Undecided About Which Sites People Are Actually Reading - Posted May 23, 2011
The media traffic wars are heated folks. It started, it seems, a couple of weeks ago, when the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study showing that The Drudge Report is a major traffic driver, trumping social networks. ... [PRNewser]

Audit Bureau Reports Overall Circulation Decline With A Few Bright Spots - Posted May 4, 2011
The Audit Bureau of Circulations reported an overall decline in daily American newspaper circulation numbers for the six months ending March 2010, with a few exceptions. (New ABC rules dictate that online editions are included as well.) First, the bad news. Overall circulation was down 2.6 percent from 19 million to 18.5... [PRNewser]

Media Companies on a Tech Launching Spree - Posted April 20, 2011
The Washington Post, GQ, and CNN have each announced new ... [PRNewser]

Is the New York Times Tumblr Actual Journalism? - Posted April 8, 2011
The headlines say that The New York Times is now on Tumblr, but truthfully it is not the New York Times on the popular social networking platform. It's T Magazine, a subsidy online magazine of the NY Times. Which bears an interesting point: What is so special about T Magazine... [SocialTimes.com]

In The Twitter-verse, The New York Times Dominates All Other Newspapers - Posted April 5, 2011
The New York Times dominates the newspaper sector when it comes to Twitter followers, tallying more than 3 million (3,062,437, to be exact) as of March 31, while no other newspaper cracked the 1 million ma... [SocialTimes.com]

The 'NY Times' is Tops on Twitter - Posted April 5, 2011
With 3,062,437, The New York Times is the only U.S. newspaper with more than one million Twitter followers, giving it the number one spot on the list of top newspapers on Twitter, ... [PRNewser]

How Publishers Can Attract Young Boy Readers - Posted March 25, 2011
Although it's difficult to get any child to read, the boys' market particularly challenges publishers. According to ... [GalleyCat]

'WaPo' Reporter Joins VP Biden's Staff as Comms Director - Posted March 18, 2011
Shailagh Murray, a political reporter for The Washington Post, ... [PRNewser]

'WaPo' Unveils Website Redesign, Invites You To Complain About It - Posted March 14, 2011
The Washington Post starts off this week with a new look and a new emphasis on reader comments, according to the press release. The look of it is part New York Times, part Wall Street Journal. That ... [PRNewser]

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza on Web Video: Just Meat and Potatoes Won't Cut It Anymore - Posted February 8, 2011
Chris Cillizza, managing editor of The Washington Post's PostPolitics and author of blog The Fix, must have... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Chris Cillizza's The Fast Fix Gives The Washington Post, Yahoo! a Quick Fix - Posted January 31, 2011
The Washington Post head of video editorial Steven King told Beet.TV the newspaper and Yahoo! hav... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Washington Post to Expand Sunday Edition & Increase Book Coverage - Posted January 19, 2011
The Washington Post will increase its Sunday edition paper by creating separate Arts and Sunday Style sections. Beginning with the January 23rd issue, book coverage will play a larger role in the modified Sunday edition. According to Yahoo! Finance, ... [GalleyCat]

Washington Post Writer Responds to The New York Times - Posted December 15, 2010
Recently, Jennifer Steinhauer of the Times wrote an article about covering the many restaurants around Capitol Hill that are serving crappy food. Apparently that was the last straw wit... [FishbowlNY]

The Washington Post Rolls Out iPad App - Posted November 9, 2010
The Washington Post entered the iPad app game, launching a free app that offers all of the newspaper's news, opinion, and feature stories, as well as online photo galleries and videos, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Washington Post Co. Shows 3Q Improvements - Posted November 5, 2010
Newspaper online revenues at The Washington Post Co. were $77.8 million for the first nine months of 2... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Antisocial Media: The Washington Post Cracks Down on Twitter Use to Respond to Critics - Posted October 21, 2010
The Washington Post is taking the social out of social media, responding to a Twitter battle with ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Daily Beast Strikes Again, Names Howard Kurtz Washington Bureau Chief - Posted October 5, 2010
Whether or not Newsweek has anything to do with it, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

New Media Index: Bloggers Curl Up with Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars; Tweeters Tweet About Twitter Security Breach - Posted September 30, 2010
Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward's new book about internal debate over the war in Afghanistan within the administration of President ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Washington Post, Yahoo! News to Provide Political Followers with The Fast Fix - Posted September 29, 2010
The Washington Post teamed up with Yahoo! News on daily video series ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

News21 Student Initiative Takes Critical Look at National Transportation Safety Board - Posted September 27, 2010
msnbc.com and The Washington Post will publish a 23-story multimedia package this week... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Arianna Huffington Fires Back at Leonard Downie Jr. - Posted September 24, 2010
The Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington responded to ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. Is Down on News Aggregators - Posted September 23, 2010
Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, ripped i... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

WSJ.Com Snags Washington Post Editor - Posted February 17, 2010
The Washington Post lost its Innovations Editor to The Wall Street Journal's website today, when it was announced that starting March 15th, ... [FishbowlNY]

Tomorrow: WhyHunger.Org Teams Up With MediaBistro - Posted February 16, 2010
Save the date: Tomorrow night join Mediabistro.com for a cocktail party to bring awareness to WhyHunger, a 35-year old non-profit dedicated to fighting poverty and hunger both in the United States and world-round. The event, which teams up with WhyHunger to raise the profile of its annual Harry Chapin Media Awards... [FishbowlNY]

Pre-Murdoch Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Walked With $6.4 million - Posted February 2, 2010
Don't cry too hard for Marcus Brauchli, the former Wall Street Journal editor who resigned from the paper four months after ... [FishbowlNY]

A Pulitzer For The National Enquirer? - Posted January 22, 2010
Former presidential candidate John Edwards has been all over the news this week... [FishbowlNY]

Huffington Post's Traffic More Than Doubles Year Over Year - Posted January 19, 2010
In December 2009, the Huffington Post saw unique visitors climb more than 150 percent from the year before, and without the help of an election to drive readers to the site as well known for its political bloggers as for its broad aggregation. According to ComScore ... [FishbowlNY]

Dan Rather's Appeal Denied|Meredith's Chair Replaces Arbitron CEO|Beckman Says Goodbye|Monetizing Journalists|Does The National Enquirer Deserve A Pulitzer? - Posted January 12, 2010
TVNewser: ... [FishbowlNY]

Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell Dies - Posted January 4, 2010
Deborah Howell, who was one of the first women in America to head up a major news organization with her work at the St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota, ... [FishbowlNY]

Government Subpoenas Bloggers Over TSA Leak - Posted December 31, 2009
When the government targets traditional journalists seeking information about confidential sources, reporters like Judy Miller can at least rest easy knowing they have the full force of news organizations like ... [FishbowlNY]

Fiscal Times Will Have Powerhouse Of Journos, Content - Posted December 17, 2009
Now see, this is the kind of publication we hope to see more of in 2010: The Fiscal Times, set to launch next year, will be an online-only entity that "will aim to drive the conversation surrounding our nation's most pressing economic issues." Sure, there are plenty of econom... [FishbowlNY]

"GMA" Names New Newsreader|Living Stories|Hachette Works With MSN On New Lifestyle Site|Good Housekeeping Digs Up Archives|Huffington Criticizes Times Reporter - Posted December 8, 2009
TVNewser: ... [FishbowlNY]

Stephanopoulos Offered "GMA" Anchor Spot|Town & Country Tries Something New|NYT Reporter Speaks Out On New WH Pool Members|Another Buyer For Worcester Paper|Boston Globe Union Ousts Prez - Posted December 3, 2009
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The Root Names New Managing Editor - Posted December 2, 2009
Just over a month after former Vibe editor Danyel Smith stepped down as managing editor of TheRoot.com, the ... [FishbowlNY]

NewsHour Partners With GlobalPost, Takes Lehrer Off Title - Posted November 30, 2009
PBS is making some big changes to its powerhouse "NewsHour" program. Starting December 7, the show will no longer be "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", but "PBS NewsHour", though longtime host Jim Lehrer... [FishbowlNY]

Mediabistro Blog-Family Roundup - Posted November 25, 2009
• Google-owned blog Hot Girls removed their racist picture of Michelle Obama, though it still shows up in a Google search. -... [FishbowlNY]

Petite Model, Author and Self-Promotion Pro Isobella Jade On The Menu - Posted November 25, 2009
If you're among the hundreds of people cut from media jobs this fall, take inspiration from the story of Isobella Jade. The petite model wrote a memoir while standing in heels in the Apple store in SoHo, then self-promoted the heck out of it until she got an age... [FishbowlNY]

On The Menu: Can Politico's New Local Model Kill WaPo? - Posted October 28, 2009
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Brauchli Discusses Salon Flap|Shepard Fairey|Self Layoffs|Hearst Tells Amazon It Will Work To Shorten Delivery Times|Nikki Finke's Powerful Women List - Posted October 19, 2009
FishbowlDC: The Washington Post's ... [FishbowlNY]

How Necessary Is The NYT's R&D Department? - Posted October 9, 2009
How does The New York Times plan to usher in the newest digital innovations? Just ask its fulltime research & development department, which according to this lengthy profile in Editor & Publisher... [FishbowlNY]

Learning To Take A Risk: Mag Editors Meet To Discuss The Move From Print To Digital - Posted October 6, 2009
The move from print to digital publications was the topic of the moment at mediabistro.com's annual event for women's magazine editors last night at ilili. (But really, isn't it the topic of the moment at every media event these days?) On hand to discuss were some female leaders in the digital field:... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo, Bloomberg Join Forces|Wenner Changes Distributors For Us|Denver Web Site Stops Producing New Content|David Letterman Scandal Round-Up - Posted October 2, 2009
FishbowlDC: The Washington Post has ... [FishbowlNY]

Will Comcast Buy NBC Universal From GE? - Posted October 1, 2009
Rumors, theories and conjectures have been swirling since The Wrap reported yesterday that a deal between cable provider ... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo's Social Media Rules Confuse Facebook Friends With Real Friends|The AP App|Conde Cuts Are Unlike Other Cuts|Anonymous Sources - Posted September 28, 2009
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Paying Tribute To Safire - Posted September 28, 2009
Since his death yesterday, William Safire's colleagues have been offering tribute. Here's a few of our favorites: Former ... [FishbowlNY]

Positioning A British Traditional Media Brand For A U.S. Digital Audience: 4 Questions For The Guardian's Hannah Diddams - Posted September 28, 2009
Although the British newspaper The Guardian is a nearly 200-year-old traditional media company in its home country, in the United States its Web site, www.guardian.co.uk stands alone as the publication's only format. Still, site attr... [FishbowlNY]

Parents Deputy Editor Hickey Returns To Ladies' Home Journal - Posted September 28, 2009
Mary C. Hickey, formerly the deputy editor of Meredith's Parents magazine, has return... [FishbowlNY]

Christiane Amanpour|THR, Variety Plan Changes|GalleyCat Correctly Predicts Oprah's Book Club Selection|WSJ Reveals Pricey Mobile App Pay Structure|Diller Will Use Cash To Reinvest - Posted September 17, 2009
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Opinion Aggregator Atlantic Wire Launches - Posted September 16, 2009
Atlantic Consumer Media has launched a new stand alone site The Atlantic Wire, to aggregate some of the best opinions and debates on the Web. ... [FishbowlNY]

Slate Founder Michael Kinsley To Lead New Digital Launch For Atlantic - Posted September 11, 2009
Atlantic Consumer Media, which publishes The Atlantic, has brought on Slate founder Michael Kinsley as a media columnist and the editor of an upcomi... [FishbowlNY]

Rendon Group Defends Itself|Rodale Launches Children's Health|Gawker's Had A Good Seven Years - Posted September 4, 2009
PRNewser: The Rendon Group fires back against media outlets like The Washington Post. Folio: Rodale is ... [FishbowlNY]

Horowitz Leaves Observer For WaPo|HuffPo Gets Sporty|A Real Sized Model|B-to-B's See Ad Pages Drop 30%|Long Form Journalism And The Web - Posted August 25, 2009
FishbowlDC: The New York Observer's political reporter Jason Horowitz ... [FishbowlNY]

Columbia J-School Announces Fellows For Violence And Trauma Coverage - Posted August 25, 2009
A Wall Street Journal reporter is among the 2009 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship recipients announced by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism today. The fellowships, established in 1999, offer mid-career journalists looking to expand their coverage of violence and traumatic events a chance to learn from experts in the field. The ten... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo Writer's Gawker Experience Raises Questions Of Fair Use - Posted August 3, 2009
We feel a bit guilty blogging about this right now, fearing that it will just add fuel to the fire raging over blogs (like this one) that draw information and quotes from stories in news sources like The Washington Post. But thanks to an article in the Post this w... [FishbowlNY]

White House Advisor's Son Joins HuffPost In Colorado - Posted July 29, 2009
FishbowlDC reported last night that White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod has a reason to be a proud papa today. His 22-year-old son, Ethan Axelrod, has managed to snag a highly coveted job in journalism right... [FishbowlNY]

Another WaPo-er Joins HuffPo|Fox News Producter Sentenced To 10 Years For Kiddie Porn|Penthouse Turns 40|Entrepreneur Writer Tells All - Posted July 21, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colsp... [FishbowlNY]

ABC Pays $200K For Jackson Interview|Who Inappropriately Touched David Brooks?|Pageviews May Have Sealed Froomkin's Fate. Or Not.|Journal-er Dana Heads To Daily Beast|Search Wars: Twitter vs. Google - Posted July 13, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Econ... [FishbowlNY]

Adweek's Morrissey Talks Declining Ad Revenue On The Menu: "Is This Cyclical Or Structural?" - Posted July 7, 2009
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Politico's Michael Calderone Is On The Menu Talking About WaPo Salons And Palin - Posted July 6, 2009
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Harry Chapin Media Award Winners Announced - Posted June 29, 2009
WHY, a nonprofit organization that combats hunger and poverty, recently announced the winners of its 2008 Harry Chapin Media Awards, named in honor of co-founder and singer Harry Chapin. Although the awards, presented by WHY and Mediabistro, will be awarded at a ceremony in New York in Se... [FishbowlNY]

Cronkite "Resting Comfortably"|WaPo Gets Swing Flu|Elle Beats Vogue In Ad Pages|Boston Mag Honcho Drops Axe, Eats Steak|Medical Mag Publisher Lays Off 30 - Posted June 25, 2009
TVNewser: ... [FishbowlNY]

Weekly Standard Sold|Chris Matthews Helps Honor Dads|WaPo Dumps Froomkin|ABC's Sciutto Roped Into Iran Twitter Scam|NYT's Keller Still Talking About His Reporting In Iran - Posted June 18, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c<td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colsp... [FishbowlNY]

Jeff Macke Leaves CNBC|BusinessWeek Offers Subscribers Special Online Version|WaPo Ombudsman Mourns Staff Cutbacks|Anastos Celebrates 4 Years At Fox 5|Cutbacks Take The Fun Out Of Forbes - Posted June 15, 2009
TVNewser: After weeks of speculation, ... [FishbowlNY]

Washington Post Investigations Editor Named Exec Editor For HuffPo's Investigative Fund - Posted May 20, 2009
Yesterday, we reported that New York Times media columnist David Carr... [FishbowlNY]

New York Times Tops Technorati Attention Index - Posted May 15, 2009
Our colleagues over at BayNewser have Technorati's list of mainstream media Web sites that get the ... [FishbowlNY]

Brian Williams Gets Indie Music Cred|Google's Mysterious Meetings With Post And Times|Newspapers Should Fail|OK!'s Luxury Update Conspiracy|WSJ.com's Micro-Payment Plan - Posted May 11, 2009
WebNewser: Today, ... [FishbowlNY]

Whitaker on Matthews: Expect Layoffs at the NYT - Posted March 23, 2009
Are there more cuts coming at the NYT? NBC's Mark Whitaker seemed to think so on this weekend's Chris Matthews Show. Says Whitaker:Look, it's a -- it's a real problem. ... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo's Chris Cillizza on Twittering the WH Briefings: 'You Have to Recognize the Ridiculous in Order to Also See the Sublime' - Posted February 4, 2009
Welcome to the Internet Presidency where Barack Obama gets to keep his Blackberry and journalists Twitter White House briefings. During the campaign, which among other things completely transformed how politicians will use the online world going forward, Obama talked a l... [FishbowlNY]

Election Day '08: Where to Watch Online - Posted November 4, 2008
The New York Observer has put together a comprehensive guide to watching the returns online including links. The Washington Post... [FishbowlNY]