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• States May End Up Making All the Decisions

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  This is from The Washington Post: A bill approved by the Finance Committee would leave virtually every major decision to state officials…States could let low-income families shop the exchanges or offer them some other kind of coverage, such as policies already offered to state employees. Under a provision authored by...

  Tags: provision, decision, Washington Post Co., coverage, Ron Wyden

• 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

• Why AARP is Selling Out Seniors

  BNET - 2009-10-29

  This is Dan Eggen, writing in The Washington Post: The group and its subsidiaries collected more than $650 million in royalties and other fees last year from the sale of insurance policies, credit cards and other products that carry the AARP name, accounting for the majority of its $1.14 billion...

  Tags: Washington Post Co., royalty, AARP, insurance policy

• HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau: 'We Are Now In The Big Leagues'

  PaidContent - 2009-10-19

  The news spread quickly, aided by PR and the characteristic web glee anytime an online property appears to be leaving old media in the dust: the September numbers for comScore and Nielsen showed Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post beating WashingtonPost.com in unique visitors for the first time. Coincidentally,...

  Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Advertisement, Washington Post Co., CEO, HuffPo, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Staci D. Kramer

• 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",...

  Tags: Media, Zacks.com, Washington Post Co.

• Washington Post, Bloomberg Team Up For New Syndication Service:

  PaidContent - 2009-10-01

  The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) and Bloomberg News are launching a new syndication service Jan. 1, 2010—the Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News, which will provide daily content from the paper and the financial newswire to newspapers, website and other subs. The move follows by a day the...

  Tags: Team, Bloomberg L.P., Washington Post Co., Post, Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Social Media, News Sharing, Companies, Tribune, Washington Post, Staci D. Kramer

• Washington Post and Bloomberg to sell news stories

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-01

  The Washington Post is teaming up with Bloomberg News to sell their articles to other news organisations. The venture will target publishers that are struggling to maintain wide coverage amid budget cuts. The news service, which will launch on January...

  Tags: Coverage, Bloomberg L.P., Washington Post Co., LA Times, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Bloomberg, Sarah Vizard

• WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner

  PaidContent - 2009-09-27

  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...

  Tags: Journalist, Network, Social Media, Washington Post Co., WaPo, paidContent, Steve Buttry, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Washington Post, Staci D. Kramer

• Washington Post Online, Print Operations Will Merge Jan. 1, 2010

  PaidContent - 2009-09-17

  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...

  Tags: Washington Post Co., Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth, Weymouth, Marketing Research, Internet, Outsourcing, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Washington Post, Staci D. Kramer

• Getty Images joins forces with Daylife and invests USD4m

  Strategy Eye - 2009-09-16

  Visual content creator and distributor Getty Images is partnering with news aggregator Daylife to create a new range of SmartMedia products that allow customers to easily incorporate visual content onto their websites. Getty also invested USD4m into the startup in June, although Getty's role has only just been revealed....

  Tags: Getty Images, Daylife, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, craigslist, TechCrunch, USA Network, Huffington Post, Editorial, Gannett Co. Inc., New York Times Co., Washington Post Co.