Robert Allbritton may only want zip codes, as he told paidContent in an interview, but the staff at newly launched TBD.com wants a lot more… In order to get personalization, users are required to provide full names, zip code, year of birth and even gender. (They also need to provide…

For all the coverage and all the talk about paywalls, you might expect a full house when Journalism Online consultant Merrill Brown asked a roomful of editors how many worked in newsrooms considering the notion. Instead, there was a show of hands only slightly larger than the number who claim…

One of the first questions I asked Jim Brady when he went public with his Allbritton local news startup was when would Erik Wemple be joining? The answer is now. Wemple, the high-profile editor of alt-weekly Washington City Paper for the last eight years, will be the new enterprise’s editor,…

The juggernaut called Politico keeps on rolling, nevermind the recession, thank you. And some changes in company structure may hint at what could come next for it. The site and print paper, started in January 2007 by Allbritton Communications (ACC), has in two years grown to be a $20 million…

Politico’s owner is not content with decimating Washington Post‘s franchise of politics coverage, but is now going after where it may hurt most: local coverage. Allbritton Communications is working on launching a local DC site, we have confirmed from sources, first reported by TNR.com earlier this evening. It has hired…