On The Trail of “The Trail”

The highlights from Harry Jaffe’s piece on Post/Post.com tensions:

• The Washington Post is struggling to unveil a political section on its Web site that it hopes will draw political pros and junkies….the new feature, which might be called “The Trail”–or another name yet to be determined…Glasser won’t call it a blog. She asks that reporters call it a journal.

• But developing the new section has created conflict between the downtown DC newspaper staff and the Post’s Internet operation across the Potomac River in Virginia.

• But there is no question that national desk morale is suffering.

• Sources at Washingtonpost.com said the relationship with Glasser “is improving.”

• Glasser and Hamilton have insinuated that Post reporters are getting beaten too often on political stories.

• Conflict over the new Web feature has exacerbated longstanding frustrations with Glasser, which began with the unceremonious reassignment of veteran reporter Chuck Babington from the senior political staff to the Business section.

  “They treated him like crap,” one reporter told The Washingtonian.

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