It’s Official: Former WSJ Managing Editor Marcus Brauchli Will Be Next WaPo Executive Editor
Enough trial balloons were floated for this not to be a surprise and yet the reality still has some bite: Marcus Brauchli, who left his post… Read more »
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Newspaper Roundup: Boston Globe; Palm Beach Post; Detroit Buyouts; Default Chart
By Joseph Weisenthal
– Boston Globe Sale?: Speculation about the Boston Globe’s future as a New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) asset is about as persistent as Y… Read more »
Industry Moves: Downie To Leave Washington Post As New Publisher Continues Makeover
Despite protests to the contrary earlier this year, Leonard Downie Jr. is stepping down as executive editor Sept. 8 for a successor to be se… Read more »
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Industry Moves: WaPo; Discovery; Comcast; Channel M; PV Media
– *Washington Post* Company: Chairman and CEO Donald Graham went inside for a successor to longtime CFO Jay Morse. Hal Jones will succeed M… Read more »
Washington Post Forms New Online Publishing Unit: The Slate Group With Weisberg As Chairman
The reorganization continues at The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co following the departure of Caroline Little as CEO and publisher of Washin… Read more »
He Said, She Said On WaPo’s Local Online Experiment
By Rafat Ali
An interesting case study in WSJ today about Washington Post’s (NYSE: WPO) local site LoudounExtra.com, and its relative inability to gain a… Read more »
Earnings: WaPo Q1 Profits Fall 39 Percent; Online Up 8 Percent
By David Kaplan
A dismal economy combined with the usual newspaper industry challenges led The Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) Q1 net income downward… Read more »
Industry Moves: WPNI CEO Caroline Little Resigns; WaPo Online Editorial Now Reports To Weymouth
By David Kaplan
Caroline Little, who heads up the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) online division, has quit, Reuters reports, citing unidentified sou… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: Seattle Times; Journal Register; NYT-Google; Washington Post-Pulitzers
By Joseph Weisenthal
– Seattle Times: The Seattle Times Company has announced 200 job cuts at its flagship paper, 131 of which will come in the form of layoffs.… Read more »
Washington Post Moves On After Closing Blog Ad Network
By David Kaplan
So why did the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) shut down its 16-month blog ad network last week? A PR rep would only say that the company was f… Read more »
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Slate Readying New Business Site ‘The Big Money’
By Joseph Weisenthal
Online magazine Slate, which said last year that it would launch a business site, plans to call its new venture The Big Money. Editor James… Read more »
WaPo Interactive Invests In Social News Firm SocialMedian
By Rafat Ali
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the digital media arm of WaPo has made an early-stage investment in SocialMedian, the yet-to-launch soc… Read more »
10-K Watch: WaPo’s Online Growth Rate Slows Down In 2007
By Rafat Ali
The Washington Post Company filed its annual 10-K with SEC yesterday, and some points about its digital growth (outside of Kaplan). One thin… Read more »
Earnings: Washington Post Q4 Revenue Up 8 Percent; WaPo.com Up 12 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
The Washington Post Co (NYSE: WPO). has announced Q4 revenue of $1.1 billion, up 8 percent year-on-year from $1.04 billion. Net income was d… Read more »
Interview: Don Graham, CEO, Washington Post Co.; Katharine Weymouth, CEO, WP Media
It’s been a hectic day for Don Graham and his niece Katharine Weymouth, kicked off by the announcement that Weymouth will be the new publish… Read more »
Washington Post Creates Media Group Including Newspaper, Online; Weymouth Will Be CEO, Publisher
Major changes at The Washington Post Company, with a new generation of the Graham family taking a lead role. Katharine Weymouth, niece of ch… Read more »
@ SIIA: Caroline Little, CEO, WPNI; Print And Digital Cooperating; More User-Gen
By Joseph Weisenthal
During a Q&A at SIIA, Caroline Little, CEO of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive discussed the role of digital at the Washington Post (NYSE… Read more »
WaPo Starts A Black-Focused Commentary Site; Sprig Has "Grown More Slowly" Than Expected
By Rafat Ali
Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is extending its slate of online brands and adding an online news and commentary site called TheRoot, focused on… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: Chicago Sun-Times; Mercury News; WaPo; Lee Enterprises
By David Kaplan
Chicago Sun-Times: The Sun-Times Media Group-owned paper intends to cut 40 positions including 35 newsroom posts. The other five positions a… Read more »
@ UBS Media Week: Donald Graham, CEO, Washington Post; More Hyperlocal Likely; In Talks on Partners
By Joseph Weisenthal
The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company has gone from being a ‘media & education’ company to an ‘education & media company’, as the the Kapl… Read more »
Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets With Facebook, OpenSocial
It’s tempting to shrug off most of the announcements about this and that service embracing various social net standards as “well, duh” — bu… Read more »
Earnings: Washington Post Q3 Revenues up 8 Percent on Education, Cable; Online Revs up 11 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
The Washington Post Company reported Q3 revenues of $1.02 billion, up 8 percent from last year’s $946.9 million. Net income dipped to $72.5… Read more »
Slate Prepping Business News Site For Next Year
By David Kaplan
Slate magazine is developing a business version of its general politics and culture site for a launch by next summer, NYO reports, and Reute… Read more »
Washington Post Acquires Lead Generator CourseAdvisor.com
By Joseph Weisenthal
The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has announced the acquisition of CourseAdvisor.com, an online lead generator serving the education i… Read more »
@ AOP: Washingtonpost.com Eyeing European, Multi-Lingual Expansion
From our newest site paidContent:UK: The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) plans to do do more in Europe through washingtonpost.com, WPNI CEO… Read more »
Earnings: Washington Post Co. Q2 Profit, Revs Fall; Online Revs Gain 11 Percent In Q2 and H107
By David Kaplan
Reflecting newspaper industry declines in print ads, as well as rising online revenues, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) saw Q2 profi… Read more »
Weekend Reading: Washington Post: Turning The Net From Threat To Opportunity
Fortune’s Marc Gunther takes a good, long look at the Washington Post Co.’s efforts to move its flagship paper from print-centric to multipl… Read more »
WaPo Tries Hyperlocalism, Aware Of The Pitfalls
By David Kaplan
The Washington Post is attempting to boost its metropolitan coverage, and more importantly, its readership, with a new hyperlocal adjunct, c… Read more »
Earnings: Washington Post Co. 1Q Profit Falls 16 Percent
By David Kaplan
The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) 1Q net income was $64.4 million compared to last year’s $76.9, a 16 percent decline. Revenue rose 4… Read more »
Leonsis Challenges Sports Coverage Status Quo
A lesson in the economics of new media … The Washington Post isn’t covering the World Championships of Hockey in Moscow but Ted Leonsis, A… Read more »
Updated: Industry Moves: Silberman Leaves Rodale For Nymag.com; WaPo’s Whitaker To NBC News
Updated: You’re reading it here first… online vet Michael Silberman is leaving Rodale Interactive, where he was VP and editorial director,… Read more »
WaPo, PrezVid Connect For Election Coverage
Not a huge deal by any means but another step in the adoption of user-gen media … PrezVid.com, the video blog from Jeff Jarvis and partner… Read more »
Everyone’s Green: WaPo’s Green Site; NatGeo; Hearst’s DailyGreen; Lime’s Green Blog Ad Network
By Rafat Ali
This week is green, coming in the wake of Earth Day on Sunday:
– Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive has tapped several former magazine exe… Read more »
Classified Ad Start-Up Oodle Raises $11 Million Second Round
Oodle, a classified ad startup that sells featured listings across its own site and network, has raised $11 million in a second round from c… Read more »
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Buys Student-Run DC Shopping Newsletter
By Rafat Ali
An interesting acquisition by Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the online arm of the WaPo company, and possibly a pre-cursor of more suc… Read more »
WaPo Expands On Its Blog Ad Network
By Rafat Ali
Last summer Washington Post launched a blog ad network called “Sponsored Blogroll”, to help WaPo online advertisers find blogs to advertise… Read more »
Earnings: WPO 3Q Profit Up 10 Percent; Online Revenue Up 24 Percent
By Jonathan Berr
Profit was up 10 percent in the third quarter for The Washington Post Co., with both washingtonpost.com and Slate showing improved results.… Read more »
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