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"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones NewspapersFriday May 16, 2008
Pictures Of Morning PapersThursday May 15, 2008
Leiby, Squires Take the BuyoutThe Washington Post's Rich Leiby and Sally Squires are taking the paper's buyout, we hear. Further Complicating This Whole WaPo Buyout Thing...Employees taking the buyout have a 7 day "cooling off period" of sorts to reconsider and rescind taking the buyout. We've heard that some employees are submitting signed papers while they scramble to find jobs and that, if the job offers don't land by the 22nd, they'll pull back the papers. More Post BuyoutsMore names were hearing who are taking the paper's buyout package: Mike Judge: Features copy desk chief Balz: StayingFishbowlDC has learned that Dan Balz will not take the buyout, although he had considered it. He tells us that he "will continue to do what I do here at the Post -- quite happily, I should add. ... The Post is a great institution." Today's Buyout Day!
What will the final numbers be? More than 100? That looks like a very real possibility. And, of course, how will the Post announce the departures? Last time, they reported some of the names, but not all. Other questions: Will all of this make the paper revisit its "let's fold some sections" idea? Could newsrooms get merged? Will there be -- gasp! -- layoffs? (There are still rumors that the paper might have some if they don't hit the target number through the recent round of buyoffs...and that target number is more about $$ than body count). What are you hearing Posties?
Pictures Of Morning PapersWednesday May 14, 2008
Is Downie...Gone?!?That's a big rumor in the Washington Post's newsroom right now. There's a lot of buzz about a big announcement that's expected to land Thursday -- deadline day for filing buyout paperwork, by the way -- and the prevailing rumor is that it has something to do with Len Downie finally announcing that he's leaving. Posties, drop us a line or note in our tips box:
Last night, Washington City Paper called Downie to ask about this big, huge, major announcement on Thursday. His response: "There's no announcement coming on Thursday." Maybe Friday? Pictures Of Morning PapersTuesday May 13, 2008
Brown Sticks Up For WaPo's Style SectionThe Style section is like the Washington Post's version of Keith Olbermann: You either love it, or hate it. Erik Wemple chimed in on the Style section last week, prompting the Washington Post's Deneen Brown to write this internal note to her Style colleagues, obtained by FishbowlDC, to staffers: Style is a great section. It is as great today as it was yesterday. The talent in Style is tremendous. Each writer has a distinctive voice. It is the collective of those voices that makes it a great. We all know that writing is subjective. There will be those who love us and those who think otherwise. In the meantime, I say we must continue to write, pushing our writing and styles to the very edge. Nikki Giovanni once said: "You must do, say, write that which you belive to be true. What others think can be of no consequence." And this is what Margaret Atwood writes about writing with confidence: "The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person and not even by yourself at some later date, otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it." PreviouslyMore Changes At The Washington Times Examiner Tweaks Distribution Strategy Limbaugh Takes On Washington Post Hooker Ads: The Week In Review The Washington Times Just Got Pricier Be The Dorkiest Journo In Your Newsroom Fran Coombs: Gone But Not Forgotten More Big Newspaper Budget Woes 30 Layoffs Later, Solomon Tells Staffers, "You are the team we are moving forward with" Washington Times Holding Newsroom Meeting To Discuss Layoffs Hooker Ads: The Week In Review Here's What You Should Have Done When You Were There Why Is There A Grand Forks Herald Box In D.C.? WaPo's Health Section Thinks They're Fat Changes At The Washington Times The Post Is Having A Rough Day Corn & Isikoff on Susan Glasser Post Meets...Glasser Not Mentioned Hooker Ads: 3,000 And Counting About Last Night: Downie Speaks! The New York Times Has No Courage Toles and Burger: Getting The Band Back Together! Turque Turns To Schools, Partlow to Latin America WSJ Launching New, Improved Political Perceptions Oops: We Think We Got This Kid Fired Julie Tate: The Post's "Unsung Hero" Financial Times Cancels News Box Distribution Hooker Ads: The Week In Review Live-Blogging: Downie Interview Post Departures: The Latest (Will Weingarten Go?!?) And On Pulitzer Day No Less?!? WaTimes to Buchanan: Bring It On! WaPo, NYT Headline Writers Hang Out Too Much City Paper Examines Glasser's Tenure Reinhard Has Decent Taste In Music The Lite Beer Is In My Other Paper Box April Fools' Day: Oh, It's Not Over People Solomon on Reshaping The Newsroom Hooker Ads: The Week In Review The Story With The Post Buyout Packages |
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