Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
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Bezos wants clickbait! More departures. Forget the seven principles enunciated by my namesake Eugene Meyer The Washington Post’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos made it clear to a select group of Post people he…
Read MoreMorton Mintz, R.I.P. and Washington Post Buyouts Then and Now
My friend Mort Mintz died this week at 103. Fittingly, the Washington Post, where we were colleagues for many years, gave him a nice obit, starting on the Metro news…
Read MoreThe shrinking local news landscape… and much more!
For many of my former Washington Post colleagues and, apparently, for many DC-area readers, the reductions in local coverage and locally-based correspondents have been more than disheartening. The newspaper we…
Read More“Bigger than Watergate”
“Bigger than Watergate!” The Watergate scandal and the Washington Post reporting (thanks. Bob and Carl) that brought down a president seemed like the apex of journalistic enterprise and achievement in…
Read MoreIs a picture still worth 1,000 words? Newspapers say no.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Or at least they used to say that. Now, however, many publishers seem to think that – though they are not…
Read More“The Post” and the times
The movie of the moment seems to be “The Post,” a dramatic retelling of the weeks in June 1971 when the Washington Post raced to catch up with The New…
Read MoreMissing Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill, the PBS News Hour co-anchor who died far too soon Monday at the age of 61, arrived in the Prince George’s County, Maryland office of the Washington Post…
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