A few hours after Steve Case tweeted that Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) CEO Don Graham told a hometown crowd Tuesday the paper wouldn’t charge for online news, the company told paidContent it was launching its first paid iPhone app today. With that, the Washington Post joins a small but…

The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company’s online newspaper revenue was up just 1 percent to $31.5 million in Q4, but in a sign of a turnaround for display ads, that segment grew 13 percent during the period. For the year, display managed to rise a slight 2 percent, while total…

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Fabulis, a social net and lifestyle site aimed at gay men, has raised $625,000 in a first round funding, founder and CEO Jason Goldberg told paidContent. The site is currently in stealth mode and Goldberg, who founded Socialmedian and sold it to professional social net Xing last year, expects to…

Washington Post Managing Editor Raju Narisetti took questions from readers online Monday, politely answering all kinds of queries and complaints while shedding the tiniest bit of light on digital plans. The paper, which once upon a time was often ahead of digital bandwagons, is finally going to introduce an iPhone…

Charles Pelton, a former journalist, served as General Manager of Conferences and Events at The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) last spring. He was in charge of developing a variety of events, including “salon dinners,” a series of sponsored policy discussions involving news personnel. The salon-dinner concept was controversial, and Post…

Barely a month after word slipped out that Newsweek was looking to unload Budget Travel magazine, the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) unit has sold the title to Fletcher Asset Management. Terms were not disclosed. While most consumer magazines have faced steep declines in ad pages, Budget Travel, which has…

Washington Post-owned digital marketing company Avenue100 has bought up career site GetTheJob.com. GetTheJob aggregates thousands of listings directly from corporate job sites; advertisers pay to get their job openings on top of GetTheJob’s results pages. The site had about 25,000 unique visitors last month, according to Compete numbers. Quantcast puts…

The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) continues to avoid any overt suggestion that it will start charging for charging for Washington Post content online but CEO Don Graham’s response to an investor at the UBS conference this morning left some wiggle room. “We haven’t announced any plans to charge for…

The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is shutting down its bureaus in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, following some layoffs at its online division last week. The goal is to save money by focusing more on politics and local Washington news, the company says. This means all its national bureaus…

With times still tough for magazines and the travel category in general, Newsweek is considering unloading Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine, AdAge reports, citing unidentified sources. The magazine may either be sold whole or Newsweek may accept the taking of partial equity stakes in the travel book, which it bought…

As Slate’s DoubleX prepares to wind down after a nine-month stint as a standalone, Peggy White is leaving the company as publisher of the women’s news and analysis site, she tells paidContent. She’ll be on hand for a short period to help out with the transition of DoubleX back to…

The good news from the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) in Q3 all came from its cable TV and education holdings as the newspaper, magazine and broadcast units were all down. Even online declined 18 percent to $22.6 million in Q3, as the segment fell 12 percent to $68.1 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…

The Washington Post and Bloomberg News are launching a new syndication service Jan. 1, 2010—the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) News Service with Bloomberg News, which will provide daily content from the paper and the financial newswire to newspapers, website and other subs. The move follows by a day the news…

The Los Angeles Times-*Washington Post* News Service, a syndication service formed back in 1962 with more than 600 clients worldwide, is being closed down by the end of this year, and LAT will now become part of McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), a JV of McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune, the…

Late Friday afternoon, Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Senior Editor Milton Coleman sent a memo to the staff with a social media policy—effectively immediately—aimed at staffers’ use of “individual accounts on online social networks, when used for reporting and for personal use.” The new policy was translated externally by WaPo ombudsman…

*Washington Post* Publisher Katharine Weymouth’s push to integrate the paper’s print and online operations continues to move at a rapid pace with Jan. 1, 2010 as the target. Weymouth told the staffs Thursday via a memo (headlined “Announcement: Completing the Transition to One Company”) that The Washington Post and Washington…

*Google* Labs flipped the switch today on *Google* Fast Flip, an experiment certain to be blown out of proportion by some people because it involves publishers, shared revenue and Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Roughly three dozen publishers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and sibling Newsweek, Salon and The…

Charles Pelton, who was supposed to establish an events business for the Washington Post and wound up being at the center of a fuss over the way a “salon” series was marketed, has resigned. WaPo reports that Pelton told Post President Stephen P. Hills by letter: “Given the current circumstances…