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

February 8, 2012 By Brent Lang & Lucas Shaw 1 day 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 3 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 12 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 13 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 15 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 19 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 21 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 23 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 26 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 34 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 39 weeks 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 42 weeks 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 47 weeks 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 48 weeks 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

  

Washington Post Sponsors 'Election' Trending Topic on Twitter

November 2, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

First news organization to pay to promote its tweets

  

Tom Shales Threatens to Leave the Washington Post

October 22, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Venerable television critic says he's planning to exit when his contract is up in December

  

Wowie Howie: Who Will Replace Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post?

October 5, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

The search is on for a new media columnist; here's a shortlist of candidates

  

Wiseguy Washington Post Columnist Suspended Over Twitter Stunt

August 31, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Mike Wise says paper will bench him for a month

  

WaPo's Ousted Weigel Hired by WaPo-Owned Slate

July 28, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Columnist, who was sacked by the company over leaked e-mails, gets a new job at Post-run site

  

WaPo, ABC Defend Use of Anonymous Military Sources Attacking Rolling Stone

June 28, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

An ironic ambush on Michael Hastings; McChrystal story gets even more meta

  

WashPost Columnist Quits Amid Drudge Firestorm

June 25, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

WaPo's Weigel offers apology to the web columnist, then a resignation

  

Newsweek Ad Revenue Plummets 38%

May 7, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Washington Post Co. reports first-quarter earnings two days after putting mag up for sale

  

WaPo Partners With ABC on 'Top Line'

May 6, 2010 By Lisa Horowitz 1 year ago

Daily political webcast adds Washington Post journalists when revamp launches May 10

  

Newsweek Goes Up for Sale

May 5, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Owner Washington Post Co. says magazine "might be a better fit elsewhere"