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New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found Newsright

Stevie Converse — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:43:10 -0500

Full article: The Wrap
Lucas Shaw
Newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online. NewsRight puts code into every piece published by the sites it works with -- 841 newspaper sites at this point -- and that code travels with the story across the web. If someone else steals it, NewsRight's database registers it.

Washington Post Co. Posts $6.2M Loss in Third Quarter

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:08:10 -0400

Full article: Washington Post
Steven Mufson
The Washington Post Co. lost $6.2 million, or 82 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2011 as a result of a series of one-time charges, a sharp contraction in its education business and continued deterioration in its newspaper and online publishing division.

Washington Post Closing Suburban Bureaus

Stevie Converse — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:29:21 -0400

Full article: Salon.com
Alex Pareene
The Washington Post is closing all of its local bureaus, besides the ones in state capitals Richmond and Annapolis. The paper says it will keep its reporters and not "reduce its local coverage."

Washington Post to Close All but Two Local Bureaus

Stevie Converse — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:26:17 -0400

Full article: Politico
The Washington Post has decided to let the leases lapse on all but two of its local bureaus over the next three years, in a bid to save money on real estate while keeping reporters.

Media Minutes: September 2, 2011

Candace Clement — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:20:55 -0400

The Justice Department delivered good news to consumers when it filed suit to block the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. A coalition of public interest and digital rights groups asked the FCC to declare that the Bay Area Rapid Transit system violated federal law when it shut down its cellphone service. And coverage of presidential candidate Ron Paul seems to be missing in the media, as the mainstream media uses its power to weed out candidates.

Think Again: The Continued Contamination of the Washington Post

Stevie Converse — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:01:15 -0400

Full article: Center for American Progress
Eric Alterman
The Washington Post's Ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton recently defended a post by conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin that wrongly attributed the tragic Norwegian attacks to Muslim extremists. Pexton’s defense of Rubin represents yet another step in the inexorable decline of a no-longer-great newspaper, under pressure not only from the collapse of its business model and reliance on the shady business practices of its parent company, but also its inability to stand up to conservative pressure groups. As a result, careful, truthful journalism has been undermined.

WaPo Killed Vargas Story Because They Thought He Was Holding Back

Stevie Converse — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:49:50 -0400

Full article: DCist
The Washington Post didn't run with former reporter Jose Antonio Vargas' personal account of his life as an undocumented immigrant because they were scared off by an inconsistency they found during weeks of editing the story.

Why the Washington Post Plagiarism Matters

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:22:34 -0400

Full article: Slate
Jack Shafer
The most aggrieved victims of plagiarism aren't the writers whose work has been snatched. It isn't the editors who've been duped, although they can be relied upon to sob a hankie damp when a plagiarism incident includes them. The real victims are readers, who trust that the reporter accurately reported the story he filed under his byline.

Washington Post Starts New Website

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:11:53 -0500

Full article: Wall Street Journal
Russell Adams
The Washington Post Co. is preparing to launch a free news-aggregation website, part of a growing push among publishers to personalize the news-reading experience. The service, called Trove, lets readers build their own news site based on topics they choose.

Washington Post to Start Running Front-Page Ads

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:55:51 -0400

Full article: Yahoo! News
Michael Calderone
Washington Post readers in the D.C.-metro area probably noticed an advertisement wrapped around a recent Sunday paper. The removable wrap, which covered half the front page and all of the back page, was an advertising first for the newspaper. But there's another first coming this Sunday: The Post will run a display ad on the bottom of the actual front page.