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• Industry Moves: Washington Post Events Exec Resigns After Misfire

  PaidContent - 2009-09-11

  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...

  Tags: Journalist, Industry, Washington Post Co., Events Business, Strategy, Management, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Washington Post, Staci D. Kramer

• Washington Post's Kurtz Loses Hope for Newspapers

  BNET - 2009-05-11

  As he noted in his popular media column in today's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz has long been one of the newspaper industry's "most fervent optimists."  But, witnessing the kinds of chaos gripping his industry these past few weeks, he says, has undermined his belief that newspapers can "find a path...

  Tags: Newspaper, Washington Post Co., Channel Management, Strategy, Web Site Development, Marketing, Management, Internet, David Weir

• Industry Moves: WaPo Appoints Ravindran As New Chief Digital Officer

  Content Next - 2008-11-20

  The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has created a new position of chief digital officer, and has named Vijay Ravindran to it, who will start in Feb next year. Ravindran is currently the CTO of of Catalist, a startup political tech firm that built a national voter database. This...

  Tags: Companies, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Industry Moves, Management, Officer, Rafat Ali, Software, Storage, Strategy, Vijay Ravindran, WaPo, Washington Post Co.

• Jim Rosenthal Named Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan Professional

  - 2008-06-11

  Former CEO Hal Jones Returns to Parent Company as Chief Financial Officer NEW YORK -- Jim Rosenthal, a long-time media and entertainment executive with New Line Cinema, will join Kaplan Professional as its Chief Executive Officer, effective at the end of July. Rosenthal most recently served as President...

  Tags: CEO, CFO, FINANCE, MARKETING, New Line Cinema, Strategy, Washington Post Co.

• Jabari Asim, Washington Post deputy editor, to helm NAACP's 'The Crisis'

  - 2007-08-20

  Jabari Asim, deputy editor of the Washington Post's Book World, recently was named editor-in-chief of The Crisis, the NAACP's official publication. "I hope to make Crisis a must-read, the leading journal of African-American ideas and culture," said Asim of his vision for the magazine. "I want to establish it...

  Tags: Strategy, Washington Post Co.

• Voyager One, Changes Name To Voyager Petroleum, As Other Companies Announce Receipt Of New Contract, Listing On OTCBB, News Coverage By The Washington Post, Trademark Terms, And Enter Into A Definitive Letter Of Intent To Acquire.

  - 2006-12-15

  M2 PRESSWIRE-15 December 2006-shazamstocks.com: Voyager One, Changes Name To Voyager Petroleum, As Other Companies Announce Receipt Of New Contract, Listing On OTCBB, News Coverage By The Washington Post, Trademark Terms, And Enter Into A Definitive Letter Of Intent To AcquireC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD ...

  Tags: camera, Company, FINANCE, MARKETING, Strategy, Washington Post Co.

• If not Bush, who is pushing biofuels?

  - 2006-12-02

  PF Washington consultant Jim Wiesemeyer attended a National Pork Producers Council NPPC meeting last week. Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward addressed the group, and Jim had a chance to ask Woodward about the Bush administration's strategy to deal with energy security or insecurity. Woodward said,...

  Tags: biofuel, Government, insecurity, Strategy, Washington Post Co.

• Marion Jones failed drug test: Washington Post

  - 2006-08-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — US sprinter Marion Jones has failed a drug test at the national athletics championships in Indianpolis in June, the Washington Post reports on its website. Quoting "sources with knowledge of the test results," the newspaper said the five-time Olympic medallist had tested positive for the blood...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, Jones, MARKETING, Strategy, Washington Post Co.

• ASTRAGAL

  - 2006-07-27

  'People think that good design is about employing Richard Rogers. But there's only one of him'CABE chief executive Richard Simmons. Times, 18.07.06'You hope that architectural fantasy will remain a form of personal therapy for Hadid. And that her grandest visions will never become real'Philip Kennicott on Zaha's Guggenheim retrospective. Washington...

  Tags: CEO, Richard, Strategy, Washington Post Co.

• Italy changes governments

  - 2006-05-01

  In an editorial on April 12, 2006, the venerable Washington Post Washington characterized Silvio Berlusconi's stewardship of the Italian government as "a palsy of leadership in the face of globalization's challenge." Berlusconi's tenure-the longest in Italy since the end of World War II-ended on April 11, 2006 when Berlusconi...

  Tags: editorial, Globalization, Government, Italy, Leadership, Strategy, Thomson Reuters Corp., Washington, Washington Post Co.