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- Politico Owner Launching a Local DC Site; Jim Brady Running It
- Politico’s owner is not content with decimating Washington Post‘s franchise of politics coverage, but is now going after where it may hurt most: local coverage. Allbritton Communications is working on launching a local DC site, we have confirmed from sources, first reported by TNR.com earlier this evening. It has...
- External links 2009-10-28
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Google Fast Flip Goes Live With Three Dozen Publishers, Including NYT, WaPo, BBC
- Google Labs flipped the switch today on Google Fast Flip, an experiment certain to be blown out of proportion by some people because it involves publishers, shared revenue and Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Roughly three dozen publishers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and sibling Newsweek, Salon and...
- External links 2009-09-14
- 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
- Slate Ends Print News Summaries; Will Offer Thrice-Daily Recaps Instead
- Slate magazine has retired one of the earliest news aggregators, as its daily print news summary Today’s Papers is making way for The Slatest. The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company-owned online mag’s editor David Plotz tells the NYT that news moves a lot faster these days than it did...
- External links 2009-08-24
- 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
- Newsweek Eying Sale Of Budget Travel Mag
- With times still tough for magazines and the travel category in general, Newsweek is considering unloading Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine, AdAge reports, citing unidentified sources. The magazine may either be sold whole or Newsweek may accept the taking of partial equity stakes in the travel book, which it...
- External links 2009-11-17
- With DoubleX's Demise As A Standalone, Peggy White Leaves Slate
- As Slate’s DoubleX prepares to wind down after a nine-month stint as a standalone, Peggy White is leaving the company as publisher of the women’s news and analysis site, she tells paidContent. She’ll be on hand for a short period to help out with the transition of DoubleX back...
- External links 2009-11-17
- Education, Cable TV Assets Push WaPo Profits Up Nearly 40 Percent; Online Drops 18 Percent
- The good news from the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) in Q3 all came from its cable TV and education holdings as the newspaper, magazine and broadcast units were all down. Even online declined 18 percent to $22.6 million in Q3, as the segment fell 12 percent to $68.1...
- External links 2009-10-30
- Washington Post, Bloomberg Team Up For New Syndication Service:
- 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...
- External links 2009-10-01
Additional Resources
- Is the Washington Post Sinking its Own Ship?
- When S&P downgraded the Washington Post Co.'s credit rating late in June, the ratings agency said it expected the company's total EBITDA to sink by 30% in 2009. Well, the company's Q-2 earnings report is out today, and there's a lot of red ink, especially at the Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Katharine Weymouth Named CEO of Washington Post Media and Publisher of The Washington Post
- Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., Named Vice Chairman of The Washington Post Company WASHINGTON -- Katharine Weymouth has been named chief executive officer of Washington Post Media, a new unit of The Washington Post Company, which will include The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com. Weymouth will also serve as publisher of The...
- Research articles 2008-02-07
- Kill Bw1780, Dc-The-Washington-Post, Kill Bw1830, Dc-The-Washington-Post And Kill Bw1845 Cqn-The-Washington-Post
- Please KILL BW1780, (DC-THE-WASHINGTON-POST) The Washington Post Company Announces Tender Offer to Purchase Up to 500,000 Shares of Its Class B Common Stock, which ran on Business Wire at 4:54 time ET on 11/08/1999. Also KILL the CORRECTION, BW1830, (DC-THE-WASHINGTON-POST) The Washington Post Company Announces Tender Offer to Purchase...
- Research articles 1999-11-09
- Layoffs hit The Washington Post after BusinessWeek, AP
- Several media reporters wrote on Twitter on Thursday that this was one of the worst weeks in journalism, and it's hard to argue with them. BusinessWeek is canning a third of its staff as Bloomberg gets ready to buy the magazine. The Associated Press is laying off 90 people as...
- News items 2009-11-20
- TeleWest buys Post UK cable holdings. (TeleWest International; Washington Post Co.'s cable television franchises in the United Kingdom) (Brief Article)
- TeleWest International is buying the Washington Post Co.'s cable TV franchises in the United Kingdom. Although terms of the deal were not disclosed, the Washington Post Co. said it would realize an after-tax gain on the sale of $5 million to ...
- Research articles 1993-09-13
- TCI, Washington Post swap. (Tele-Communications Inc. trade subscribers)(Brief Article)
- Subsidiaries of Tele-Communications Inc. and the Washington Post Co. are swapping cable systems encompassing roughly 103,000 subscribers. General terms call for TCI American Cable Holdings II LP to give the Washington Post systems with about 62,000 Subsidiaries of Tele-Communications Inc. and the Washington Post...
- Research articles 1997-06-09
- Washington Post slams fair lending record. (includes related article on mortgage discrimination) (Brief Article)
- In June The Washington Post published the results of a six-month investigation of mortgage lending practices of Washington, D.C.-based banks and thrifts. The series was entitled, "Separate and Unequal." In the words of a Post editorial that In June The Washington Post published the results of...
- Research articles 1993-08-01
- Title: Analysis Of The Washington Post Company Available Now.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-14 January 2008-Research and Markets: Title: Analysis Of The Washington Post Company Available NowC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14012008 Dublin: Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79460) has announced the addition of "Analysis of The Washington Post Company" to their ...
- Research articles 2008-01-14
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