Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 8, 2013
10:16 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 7, 2013
10:57 am
Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Peter Perl is leaving the paper, he confirmed on Twitter after
Richard Prince first reported it.
In an email to Poynter, Perl writes:
"Yes, I had passed up a decade's worth of opportunities to retire early or take buy-outs, and realized that after 32 years here -- and 40 in daily journalism! -- the time had come."
He says he will continue to do freelance writing and editing, as well as executive coaching.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 4, 2013
11:38 am
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron announced to staffers Monday morning that national editor Kevin Merida will be the paper's new managing editor. Merida becomes
the paper's first African American in that position, reports Richard Prince.
John Temple is the Post's other managing editor; he'll oversee digital and newsroom operations, the memo says.
"I won’t join him on the basketball court, where I do not belong, but I’m delighted that he’ll be joining me in leading the Post newsroom," Marty Baron told staffers in an email, which is also below the jump.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 1, 2013
11:56 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 1, 2013
9:04 am
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
will consider leaving its building in downtown Washington, D.C., Publisher Katharine Weymouth told staff in an email Friday. "Our goal is to give us a more modern, bright, open and efficient building that better supports and advances our mission into the future," she wrote.
Post business reporter Jonathan O’Connell calls the building "dated" and says the District government has assessed the Washington Post Co.'s properties in downtown D.C. at "nearly $80 million."
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 8, 2013
10:20 am
The Washington Post's polling operation will be spun off into an independent business, a press release this morning announces. "Capital Insight" will still conduct polling for The Washington Post, but it will also take on clients. Jon Cohen will lead Capital Insight.
The Washington Post Co. also owns a social media advertising agency, SocialCode, which
acquired Digg's old engineering team last May.
Press release below:
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Andrew Beaujon
Dec. 18, 2012
10:56 am
The Washington Post
In the six years it existed, The Washington Post's "
Celebritology" blog was one of the site's most popular online properties. It will close for good Dec. 21, blog author Jen Chaney
told readers in a post Tuesday. Chaney has resigned from the paper; her last day is Jan. 3, she said in a phone interview.
"The editors above me told me they wanted to streamline our coverage in the pop-culture area," Chaney said. "It wasn’t because the blog had dipped significantly in terms of traffic." Chaney says she thinks Celebritology will finish the year in fourth place among the Post's blogs.
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Andrew Beaujon
Dec. 17, 2012
12:10 pm
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Incoming Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron tells Paul Starobin "It’s probable"
the paper's headcount will go down, but that he hopes the Post can do more on local reporting. "I don’t think for a minute that local journalism is a lesser form of journalism than coverage of national affairs or world affairs,” Baron told Starobin.
And that goes, he made clear, for the Washington area—with an appetite for coverage of local issues as strong as it is in the rest of America, even though the region is, uniquely, the seat of the nation’s capital.
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Andrew Beaujon
Dec. 13, 2012
8:16 am
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2012 was a great year for men to die. "
Big papers' lists of significant deaths in 2012 overwhelmingly feature men," Dana Liebelson writes in Mother Jones.
The Washington Post put 18 women and 48 men on its list. On the other side of the country, the Los Angeles Times listed 36 women and 114 men. And lest you think this is some kind of freak 2012 phenomenon, the New York Times has consistently listed many more men than women over the last five years.
Obituaries are a "rearview mirror," New York Times obituaries editor Bill McDonald tells Liebelson. "The people we write about largely shaped the world of the 1950s, '60s and, increasingly, the '70s, and those movers and shakers were—no surprise—predominantly white men."
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Julie Moos
Dec. 7, 2012
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