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• Washington Post Announces Cost Cutting Measures

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-30

  Zacks.com submits: The Washington Post Company WPO, a diversified education and media company, recently announced that it would close its bureau offices in New York , Los Angeles and Chicago effective Dec 31, 2009, in an effort to cut costs and focus more on local news. Consequently,...

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• Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-22

  Mathew Ingram submits: The recent cuts at the Washington Post WPO — as reported by Politico and Washington’s City Paper — have once again brought to the surface a culture clash that has been going on in mainstream newsrooms for most of the last decade, and one that shows...

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• Washington Post in New Venture with Bloomberg

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-05

  Zacks.com submits: The Washington Post Company WPO, a diversified education and media company, has recently entered into a strategic partnership with Bloomberg, the leading financial data, news, and analytics provider. The partnership aims to launch a global news service, "The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News",...

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• Washington Post's Kaplan, Inc. Acquires and Expands

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-09-11

  Zacks.com submits: Recently, Washington Post Company’s WPO wholly owned subsidiary Kaplan, Inc, the provider of higher education and professional training, acquired the Murdoch Institute of Technology from the Alexander Education Group for an undisclosed sum. The Murdoch Institute of Technology is one of Australia’s leading educational institutions, and...

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• Revolt of the Stenographers

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-26

  Brad DeLong submits: At the moment, at the top of nytimes.com are four stories: A pretty good story by Mark Mazzetti and David Johnston filling in details in stories reported at lest three years ago by Ron Suskind in his The One Percent Doctrine--and, of...

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• Katharine Graham's Personal History: Politics and Business Landscape of Past Century

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-16

  Ravi Nagarajan submits: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) Vice Chairman Charlie Munger has often advocated the practice of “making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas.” This concept may initially sound strange, but it is based on the belief that it is a mistake to fail to learn...

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• Neilsen Sheds Light on Newspaper Websites' Audience Engagement

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-06-24

  Seth Gilbert submits: As newspapers continue their efforts to squeeze out revenue from their online properties, one of the questions editors are asking is what differentiation they should have between print and dot com. Some argue that online being free, print should offer something special to add value to those...

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• Will Newsweek's Reinvention Succeed?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-17

  Julia Boorstin submits: While the newspaper and magazine industry struggles with plummeting ad sales, everyone's looking for a new business model. Newsweek, which is owned by the Washington Post Co. WPO is about to launch its own solution to the publishing industry morass. It's going niche. Instead of trying...

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• Media Roundup: Google in Talks With Washington Post and New York Times, Gannett's Biggest Shareholder Cashes Out and More

  BNET - 2009-05-13

  Google in talks with Washington Post and New York Times, NYT launches Twitter-like service, new reader, Gannett's biggest shareholder cashes out, FoxNews.com views up 50 percent and New Zune ad takes aim at iPod over price. by Sean Blanda

  Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Media, New York Times Co., Gannett Co. Inc., Washington Post Co., Financial Accounting, Finance, Sean Blanda

• David Geffen Sees Opportunity in the New York Times Co.

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-12

  Julia Boorstin submits: The newspaper industry may be in crisis and the New York Times Company NYT may be struggling with a dramatic drop in revenue, but media mogul David Geffen sees an opportunity. The former music producer and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG has an estimated net worth of...

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