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• Political Prophecy: A 2008 Slam-Dunk for Blogs

  - 2008-07-01

  Don't diss the role of the press; it's doing that itself Despite massive efforts to bury them deep, newspapers are not yet ready to write their own obituaries. They're doing their damndest to stay alive, even as the Rupert Murdochs of the journalist world seek to buy and change the...

  Tags: blog, Blogging, INTERNET, journalism, MARKETING, Washington Post Co.

• Washington Post honored with 6 Pulitzer Prizes

  - 2008-04-08

  NEW YORK -- The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday -- the most in its history -- including awards for its coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre and a series exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital. The New York Times received...

  Tags: journalism, photography, Washington Post Co.

• Hyper-Local Hero

  - 2006-11-01

  On a Saturday afternoon in August, Rob Curley is holed up in a video-production studio in Naples, Florida, with a couple of sleep-deprived colleagues. Between yawns and sodas, they're editing high-school football footage that's scheduled to air tonight on the Web and on iPods and PlayStation Portables, as well as...

  Tags: Games, journalism, MARKETING, media, Washington Post Co., Web

• Washington Post critic Robin Givhan wins 2006 Pulitzer Prize

  - 2006-05-08

  Washington Post writer Robin Givhan, known for her eminent fashion assessments with political commentary, recently won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism in the journalism category. Pulitzer board judges bestowed Givhan, 41, with the honor because of "her witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."...

  Tags: CAREER, honor, journalism, journalist, MARKETING, Washington Post Co.

• "Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being," was how Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz began an article celebrating the "activist stance" of emotional reporters covering Katrina's devastation

  - 2005-09-26

  "Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being," was how Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz began an article celebrating the "activist stance" of emotional reporters covering Katrina's devastation. Kurtz must have been especially pleased with the "reporting" of his other employer, CNN. Gone was any pretense of objectivity....

  Tags: CNN, journalism, MARKETING, media, Washington Post Co.

• The lessons of 'Deep Throat' and Watergate

  - 2005-06-06

  All good things have unexpected consequences. When Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal, saving our democracy wasn't the only outcome. Now, with W. Mark Felt outing himself as their key source in 1972-73, we can look back. Here are some lasting effects: ...

  Tags: Benefits, journalism, salary, Washington Post Co.

• Transparency benefits the practice of journalism: 'the Nieman Watchdog Project ... is grounded in the belief that probing questions are essential to informed reporting.'.(Watchdog)

  - 2004-09-22

  It always takes a while for the meanings of the past to take hold. Looking back can offer fresh perspectives, but too often the lessons of earlier times fail to guide our actions today. Recent reexaminations published in The New York Times and...

  Tags: benefit, Government, journalism, Vietnam, Washington Post Co.

• When it Raines ...(Howell Raines, Gerald Boyd resign from New York Times)

  - 2003-06-30

  Where do I begin? In a week when it became increasingly obvious that the President, the Vice President, the Defense Secretary, the Secretary of State and virtually all their underlings had deliberately misled Congress, the United Nations, the American people and the people of the world...

  Tags: Iraq, journalism, media, Miller, New York Times Co., Washington Post Co.

• Woe is media: it's time to save journalism from its saviors - Culture and Reviews - Industry Overview - Critical Essay

  - 2002-12-01

  The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, New York: Three Rivers Press, 207 pages, $12 The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril, by Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser, New York: Alfred A. Knopf,...

  Tags: journalism, journalist, media, Technology, theory, TVs, Washington Post Co.

• Reporter stands at head of the class

  - 2002-10-08

  Profile - Name: Susan Schmidt - Place of birth: New York, N.Y. - Education: Bachelor's degree in English from Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va. - Occupation: Reporter for the Washington Post since 1983. Schmidt currently is assigned to cover the Justice Department...

  Tags: Government, journalism, journalist, Washington Post Co.