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- Industry Moves: WaPo Veteran Grayer Retiring As Kaplan CEO
- Jonathan Grayer is resigning as chairman and CEO of the *Washington Post* Company's Kaplan Higher Education unit after 17 years in the role. His replacement is Andrew Rosen, who has served as COO since Grayer became CEO in 1992; he's been with the company since 1986. While WaPo is...
- External links 2008-11-20
- Industry Moves: WaPo Appoints Ravindran As New Chief Digital Officer
- 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...
- External links 2008-11-20
- Industry Moves: Former Newsweek President Osberg Appointed CEO Of Mobile Video Start-Up Buzzwire
- Greg Osberg, former president of Newsweek, has resurfaced. Four months after leaving the magazine, he is stepping into the role of chief executive officer at Buzzwire, a Denver-based mobile video start-up that helps operators and content producers publish video and internet radio on cellphones. The WSJ.com reports that Buzzwire's...
- External links 2008-12-08
- Newsweek Taking The Plunge: Cutting Staff; Trying To Be the Opinion Driver A La The Economist
- Newsweek, owned by the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) group, is taking the hard but necessary steps of trying to reinvent itself and keep its relevance: it is planning some layoffs, and will be moving towards a slimmer publication with fewer subscribers and more photos and opinion inside its pages,...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Industry Moves: WaPo's Graham Joins Facebook's Board
- Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) chairman and CEO Don Graham has joined Facebook's board. It might seem odd for a social net like Facebook to tap someone from the decaying newspaper industry, but WaPo has been having more success than others in the online space. While the companies overall profits...
- External links 2008-12-11
- WaPo Closing Hyperlocal Site LoudounExtra
- Meanwhile, as bigger portals continue to buy local sites (Patch, EveryBlock), newspapers continue to close them: latest example is Washington Post (NYSE: WPO), which is closing its only standalone local site LoudonExtra, two years after the hyperlocal site launched. The rationale from the company, as told to Loudoun Independent,...
- External links 2009-08-18
- WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-27
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- Industry Moves: WaPo Picks Two Managing Editors To Speed Print-Online Newsroom Merger
- Two people will share the title of managing editor at The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) , as the paper tries to tie the print and online newsrooms closer together, WaPo reports. Elizabeth Spayd, a WaPo vet who has served on both sides of the Potomac River that divides the print...
- News items 2009-08-07
- LAT-WaPo Syndication Service Dissolved; LAT Merges Into McClatchy-Tribune Combine
- The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) 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 the McClatchy (NYSE:...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Washington Post Online, Print Operations Will Merge Jan. 1, 2010
- 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 via memo Thursday that The Washington Post and Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Digital, which operates washingtonpost.com, will...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Industry Moves: Washington Post Events Exec Resigns After Misfire
- 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...
- External links 2009-09-11
- Green Ink: OPEC, Cutting and Praying
- Crude oil futures rebounded after a dismal initial reaction to OPEC?s production cuts on signs that lower production will lead to lower stocks next year, Bloomberg reports. But the market?s bearish reaction to OPEC?s biggest-ever output cut shows that the cartel?s compliance with quotas is still a huge issue, notes...
- News items 2009-08-07
- How Healthcare Works: Tax Scams and Medicare
- Does your local hospital, nursing home or doctor's office collect Medicare reimbursements while skating by on federal taxes? If so, it's far from alone -- the Government Accountability Office notes that more than 27,000 healthcare providers, or almost six percent of all who take Medicare, collectively owed more than $2...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Financial Crisis Signals the End of Reaganism
- Financial Crisis Signals the End of ReaganismRE: Financial Crisis Signals the End of ReaganismBS! Reaganomics did not cause this financial crisis. The Democrats' meddling did. Get your facts straight.RE: Financial Crisis Signals the End of ReaganismBS! Reaganomics did not cause this financial crisis. Democrat meddling and skimming did. Get your...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- Healthcare Roundup: Anthem Blue Cross Sued, Hospitals Slow Expansions, GM Cuts Healthcare, and More
- Anthem Blue Cross sued for rescission-settlement efforts -- Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sued the health-insurance company, a unit of WellPoint, charging that it illegally sought to reach settlements with policyholders by offering them $1,000 in exchange for dropping all legal claims. Anthem and several other health plans recently...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Industry Moves: Caroline Little Named Guardian North America CEO
- Guardian News & Media GNM is staking out its US ambitions farther by appointing a chief executive for north America. Former WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive publisher and CEO Caroline Little, who joined GNM's board in July as a special adviser on US expansion, is now coming aboard full-time; she starts in...
- External links 2008-12-08
- Media Roundup: Wii Sales Up, WaPo CEO Lands at Facebook, and More
- Five months after merger, CBS and CNET trim staff -- After purchasing CNET for $1.8 billion in July, CBS (this blog's parent company) has cut roughly 275 employees from a variety of media properties including last.fm, GameSpot, CBSNews.com and CBSSports.com. TechCrunch has the exact memo sent to employees. [Source: TechCrunch]...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- CEO Greed: Unsavory, Unremittant, Unrepentent
- "Since roughly the mid-1980s, the American public corporation has been run primarily for the purpose of creating vast wealth for its senior executives." In as hard-hitting a critique as you are likely to see, two Harvard faculty detail in the Washington Post what appears to be no less than...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Claim: LeCarre's "The Constant Gardener" Was Based on Pfizer Trovan Case
- The Connecticut Law Tribune claims that The Constant Gardener, a John Le Carré book and later a movie with the same name, is in fact based on the Pfizer Trovan case. But is the claim true? A look at the timeline of both the case and the book suggest it...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Geithner's 'Nice, Well Thought Out' Plan
- FinancialSpiltMilk submits: WaPo has an article on how the just announced "Plan" from Geithner & Co. was changed at the last minute from what had been planned for weeks. They apparently realized late in the day that what they were planning on proposing was too expensive, too risky and...
- External links 2009-02-18
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