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• Both the Washington Post and Newsweek Are Loss Leaders At WPO

  BNET - 2009-11-03

  Although the Washington Post Co. posted positive numbers in the third quarter, the flagship newspaper of the same name continues to lose the company money. So does Newsweek magazine, where ad revenue is off by a third from this time last year. by David Weir

  Tags: Newsweek, Leader, Washington Post Co., Leadership, Management, David Weir

• Leonard Downie, Jr., Executive Editor of The Washington Post, to Retire

  - 2008-06-23

  WASHINGTON -- Leonard Downie, Jr., who has served as executive editor of The Washington Post since September 1, 1991, has decided to retire in the fall of 2008. No successor has been named. "Len's extraordinary news judgment, his ferocious sense of fairness, his honesty with the staff and with...

  Tags: Leadership, Washington, Washington Post Co.

• Will the Army ever learn good media relations techniques? Walter Reed as a case study

  - 2008-05-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The views expressed in this article are the author's and are not necessarily those of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the National Defense University, or the Department of Defense. If you ever wanted a near-perfect case study of how not to deal with the...

  Tags: HARDWARE, Leadership, MARKETING, Mice, Priest, Reed, secretary, technique, Walter, Washington Post Co.

• Zahar: Gazans Can Do 'No Less' Than Emulate Warsaw Ghetto Jews.

  - 2008-04-18

  By Ha'aretz Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar writing in an opinion piece published Thursday in the Washington Post stated that Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up against Israel like Jews in the Warsaw ghetto did against the Nazis. "Sixty-five...

  Tags: Israel, Leadership, Nazi, Washington Post Co.

• DNC: Rudy in Damage Control Mode: Stumps in Granite State While Allies Block Probe on Mob-Linked Friend Bernard Kerik

  - 2007-10-23

  To: STATE EDITORSContact: Dag Vega or Damien LaVera, +1-202-863-8148, both of DNC Kerik-Gate Shows How Rudy Puts Loyalty Ahead of CompetenceWASHINGTON,Oct. 23/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --As he files paperwork to get on the ballot in the Granite State today, Rudy Giuliani's allies are trying to distance him from potentially embarrassing allegations about his...

  Tags: consulting, Government, Leadership, New York Times Co., nomination, Outsourcing, Washington Post Co., White House

• Tilting at windmills

  - 2007-09-01

  How to clear your inbox The Small Business Administration canceled 8,000 loans to hurricane victims without notice to the borrowers. When the borrowers sought an explanation, they were told, according to Ron Nixon of the New York Times, "that they had voluntarily given up their loans," which was not...

  Tags: Associated Press, Benefits, borrower, Democrat, Federal Emergency Management Agency, HEALTHCARE, Iraq, job, Leadership, Lehman Brothers Inc., NASA, New York Times Co., SBA, SOFTWARE, soldier, Vietnam, Washington Post Co., White House

• A Washington Post expose found squalid conditions in a building that houses outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

  - 2007-03-19

  A Washington Post expose found squalid conditions in a building that houses outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Embarrassed Army officials dispatched construction crews to remove mold, patch ceiling holes, and repair elevators. The Pentagon then resorted to the first refuge of derelict leaders: appointing an independent panel to...

  Tags: elevator, Leadership, Reed, refuge, Walter, Washington Post Co.

• Marshall Institute

  - 2006-12-01

  A newly revised U.S. space policy puts defense at the top of the list. It reads, in part, that the goal is to "strengthen the nation's space leadership and ensure that space capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security, homeland security, and foreign policy objectives" and to...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Government, Washington Post Co.

• Lawmaker knew in 2000 of sex-tinged emails: Washington Post

  - 2006-10-09

  WASHINGTON AFP — A Republican legislator learned of salacious Internet exchanges by a now-disgraced congressional colleague as far back as 2000, the Washington Post reported, in the latest revelation from an unfolding sex scandal. An aide to Republican lawmaker Jim Kolbe told the daily that her boss confronted representative Mark...

  Tags: aide, E-mail, INTERNET, leader, Leadership, Republican, U.S. Congress, Washington Post Co.

• DNC: Reality Catches Up With Representative No. 1 ; Leading Symbol of GOP Culture of Corruption Pleads Guilty

  - 2006-09-15

  WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the Democratic National Committee: Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney's guilty plea may mean his long denial is finally coming to an end, but it doesn't mean the Republicans in Columbus or Washington are wrapping up their culture...

  Tags: ethics, House Majority Leader, Leadership, lobbyist, Republican, Washington, Washington Post Co.