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Facebook Social Reader Stinks Less Than Previously Thought

After proclaiming in that loud-and-proud BuzzFeed way that Facebook's social reader collapsed because nobody liked product, Buzzfeed's John Herrman still won't take back that assessment, even after TechCrunch's Josh Constine proved him wrong.

By Rebecca Greenfield

May 7, 2012

Old Media Continues to Die on New Platforms

This afternoon we get two bleak portrayals of how old-media is doing in this "new media" world.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 7, 2012

Can Slideshows Save The Washington Post?

In one of the more disturbing things you'll hear from someone in charge of one America's best papers, it appears that Washington Post President Steve Hills has a solution to the paper's circulation problems: more slideshows.

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By Eric Randall

Apr 25, 2012

Tareq Salahi Crashes Our News Cycle Again

Tareq Salahi, one half of the couple that famously crashed a White House party while filming for The Real Housewives of D.C., has once again forced his way into our collective consciousness by announcing that he's considering a run for the Virginia governorship.

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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica

Apr 20, 2012

Way Too Many Media Companies Are Lobbying Against Transparency

Many of the country’s biggest media companies — which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations — are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 29, 2012

The Washington Post's New Managing Editor Is John Temple

The Washington Post must have offered John Temple a pretty sweet gig to get him to leave gorgeous beach paradise Hawaii for swampy inland Washington, D.C.

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By Dino Grandoni

Mar 23, 2012

Chart of the Day

A Map of Al-Jazeera's U.S. Fans

Using the treasure trove of readership data that are Bitly links, Forbes' Jon Bruner has created an interactive map of the news preferences of online readers that mediaphiles like us are sure to scour over.

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By Eric Randall

Feb 28, 2012

This Time It's 9/11 Victims' Remains That Were Sent to a Landfill

A new Pentagon report claims that the unidentified remains of some victims in the Sept. 11 attacks ended up in a landfill, and this comes just months after a similar scandal in the Air Force prompted some much-deserved outrage.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 24, 2012

Why Sell Ads When You Can Sell Journalists' Brains?

With a new in-house consulting firm in the works, Wired U.K. is the latest publication to knock holes in the wall that traditionally stands between editorial and business departments.

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By Dino Grandoni

Feb 8, 2012

How Facebook Could Have Saved The Washington Post

Now that the Great Facebook IPO of 2012 is here, it's time for reporters to assess who missed out on making billions (or at least millions) by not backing in the social network when it was getting started. One of the biggest losers: The Washington Post.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 8, 2012

The Washington Post Offers Buyouts, but Not to Its Best

The Washington Post is offering some voluntary buyouts to "some Newsroom employees" in an e-mail sent out by executive editor Marcus Brauchli Wednesday morning.

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By Eric Randall

Jan 24, 2012

Washington Post Columnists Really Don't Like Newt

Last month, The Washington Post editorial page raised a few eyebrows when four columnists wrote harsh critiques of Newt Gingrich in a single day, making for, in the words of Ben Smith "the maximum Newt hate a newspaper can fit into a single page." Well, in Tuesday's paper, the Post has done it again!

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 17, 2012

How Open Graph Will Change Facebooking

After making Timeline widely available, Facebook's following up with its Open Graph promises, debuting its frictionless sharing apps tomorrow, AllThingsD's Liz Gannes reports.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 16, 2011

Identifying Someone Based on Their Taste in Music

Is it possible to identify someone looking only at their iPod? The Washington Post thinks so.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Nov 4, 2011

The Washington Post Piles on Herman Cain, but Doesn't Bring the Goods

The front page of The Washington Post takes a couple of new shots at Herman Cain today, looking beyond his recent to scandal to suggest that the real problem with his job at the National Restaurant Association is that he wasn't very good at it.

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By Ray Gustini

Oct 7, 2011