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AP, New York Times-Backed NewsRight Makes Its First Licensing Deal with Moreover

March 14, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 10 weeks ago

News Right, the newspaper industry's digital licensing group, has made its first deal with a major aggregator, Moreover Technologies

  

Washington Post Income Dropped 58% in 2011

February 24, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 13 weeks ago

The Washington Post Company reported its fourth quarter earnings, capping off a rough year for Don Graham & Co.

  

Friends, Alumni Establish Anthony Shadid Memorial Fund at University of Wisconsin-Madison

February 20, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 13 weeks ago

The late New York Times foreign correspondent attended UW, where scholarships and awards will be established in his name

  

Piracy Fight Comes to Wire Services: AP Sues 'Parasitic' Meltwater News

February 14, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 14 weeks ago

The Associated Press filed a suit in a New York court against news aggregator Meltwater, which gets a split decision in a ruling on similar U.K. case Tuesday

  

Newspaper Web Traffic Keeps Growing -- But Not Fast Enough to Rescue Employees

February 8, 2012 By Brent Lang & Lucas Shaw 15 weeks ago

Newspaper sites saw viewership jump last quarter, but the Washington Post and the Guardian are the latest companies to offer layoffs or buyouts

  

New Yorker's David Remnick Shuns Twitter But Loves His iPad

January 31, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 16 weeks ago

New Yorker editor David Remnick is proudly old school, but he pushed for a swift digital transition to avoid the fate of many newspapers

  

Award-Winning ProPublica Partners with Open Road to Publish E-Books

January 30, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 16 weeks ago

The non-profit investigative outfit works with everyone from the New York Times to CNN

  

Washington Post Editor Jumps Back to Wall Street Journal

January 20, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 18 weeks ago

Raju Narisetti leaves after three years at the Post

  

Washington Post, NPR, the Guardian Replace Wikipedia for a Day

January 18, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 18 weeks ago

How to cope without everyone's favorite research tool

  

New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found NewsRight

January 5, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 20 weeks ago

The organization will license aggregation of digital content

  

Newspaper Stocks Freefall in 2011, News Corp. Does Just Fine

January 3, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 20 weeks ago

Self-proclaimed "newsosaur" Alan Mutter points out that ad revenue is off more than 50 percent since 2005; diversified News Corp largely unscathed

  

How Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber Can Become President

January 3, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 20 weeks ago

New Washington Post app showcases all the ways it can be used to evaluate how engaged readers are with certain candidates

  

News Organizations Still Just Use Twitter for Self-Promotion (Study)

November 14, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 27 weeks ago

They aren't re-tweeting much or engaging their readers, a Pew study finds

  

Washington Post Company Reports 3Q Loss

November 4, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 29 weeks ago

Declining enrollment at Kaplan education and poor ad sales at its publishing division lead to $6.2 million in net losses

  

Washington Post Chairman Exits to Run 'PBS NewsHour'

October 27, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 30 weeks ago

Bo Jones Jr. will be the President and CEO of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

  

The Washington Post's Site Slow Down -- Do Woodward and Bernstein Have Facebook?

September 26, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 34 weeks ago

The Washington Post cuts back while its parent company is hemorrhaging cash, but can you really get off faster than its website loads?

  

Reuters Taps Bay Citizen Editor Jonathan Weber as West Coast Bureau Chief

September 9, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 37 weeks ago

Jonathan Weber departed the non-profit site Thursday

  

Washington Post Shutters Most of Its Local Bureaus, Denies It Is Retrenching

September 1, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 38 weeks ago

Paper, which closed all national bureaus in 2009, will only maintain its physical presence in capitals of Virginia and Maryland

  

Washington Post Profits Fall 50% in Q2

August 5, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 42 weeks ago

Revenue for the education and newspaper publishing divisions declines

  

The Palin Emails: How You, Too, Can Work for the NYT or Washington Post (For Free)

June 10, 2011 By Tim Molloy 50 weeks ago

A great experiment in crowd-sourced journalism? Or laziness?

  

Washington Post Hires Reporter That Used to 'Tenaciously' Cover Them

May 11, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Erik Wemple, former editor at TBD.com and City Paper columnist, joins paper's opinion section

  

Aggregator Wars: WaPo Launches 'Trove'; NYT-Backed News.me on the Way

April 20, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Paper rolls out free "Pandora for news," while Bit.ly's iPad news aggregator set to launch

  

Washington Post Admits Plagiarism in Arizona Shooting Coverage

March 16, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Paper says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sari Horwitz borrowed "substantial material" from the Arizona Republic

  

David Broder, 'Dean' of D.C. Press Corps, Dies at 81

March 9, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Pulitzer Prize-winner had covered every presidential convention since 1956

  

From Suicide Bombs to 'Rahmageddon': A Day in the Life of the Homepage

January 27, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

How high-profile news organizations -- from the New York Times to Gawker -- organized a big news day on the web: The LA Times is slow, HuffPo kicks ass on engagement and Gawker needs a hand

  

Glenn Beck Thinks His Website Will Replace the New York Times

January 6, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

On heels of ex-HuffPo hire for TheBlaze.com, conservative host sounds off on newspapers

  
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