Posts Tagged ‘Washington Post’
And then there were none
The formerly local Washington Post… Say it ain’t so! But, sadly, the Washington Post‘s wonderful Petula Dvorak has just published her final Metro column. In it she recounts several of…
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 MoreIt’s Striking: Buyouts & The Washington Post
John Kelly — my friend, neighbor, and former editor on the Weekend section of The Washington Post –is taking a buyout. “KISS just wrapped up its ‘final’ tour and I’m…
Read MoreWash Post Aug. 9, 1974: Nixon Resigns; Larry Broadmoore Carries On
It was on this day 49 years ago — nearly half a century — that the front page of the Washington Post carried a simple large-font two-word banner headline: “Nixon…
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 MoreThe Attribution Scam. Where Are Standards?
It’s been many years since unattributed, anonymous quotes or statements were declared a capital offense in newspaper journalism. The feeling was that if someone had something to say that merited…
Read MoreRecalling Watergate and “Woodstein” after 50 years
June 17, 1972 was not Dec. 7, 1941, nor was it Sept. 11, 2001, or Jan. 6, 2021. But it remains a date that will live in infamy, and in…
Read MoreChasing Carl Bernstein
Journalists of my generation and acquaintance are having a memoir moment. Peter Osnos, who covered Prince George’s County, Md. for the Washington Post before I did and went on to…
Read MoreRecalling “Jimmy’s World” at the Washington Post
Remarkably, it’s been 40 years since fabulist Janet Cooke was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a story headlined “Jimmy’s World,” about an eight-year old heroin addict who did not exist.…
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