The paper has a "new" way to make money off its "savvy" readers: This summer, it will adopt a metered paywall system that's very similar to The New York Times — and, just like the Times, actually savvy readers will find a way to access it for free.
Breitbart's "Big Journalism" website trumpeted a story it picked up about Paul Krugman filing for bankruptcy. It would have been quite a story — were it not more satire from the site that Breitbart loves watching other outlets fall for.
The Washington Post published a "fact-check" of President Obama's State of the Union address that questions refutes no facts. So what is the point of this exercise anymore?
The Post's Suzi Parker couldn't tell satire from reality and erroneously reported that Palin was headed to Al Jazeera America, forcing the paper to add this ugly, bold, and altogether embarrassing correction.
If the paper is going to start charging you to use its website, don't even think of asking the paper's media reporters about it.
The Washington Post is, like many papers, in bad business shape. That's a given. But today is one step at looking forward, as they found an editor in The Boston Globe's Martin Baron to replace executive editor Marcus Brauchli.
Mitt Romney's campaign keeps shifting its response to attacks on his career at Bain Capital after President Obama's campaign seized on a Washington Post story calling the company a "pioneer" in lowering costs by moving jobs overseas.
The Washington Post published a story June 21 calling Mitt Romney an offshoring "pioneer" while at Bain Capitol, and President Obama's campaign made an ad about that. On Wednesday, six days after the story was published, Romney's campaign is seeking a full retraction from the Post, Politico's Dylan Byers reports.
For a publication that routinely scoops the competition, it's startling to see Politico's dismissal of well-sourced stories published elsewhere.
The White House makes no secret of its visitor logs, but it doesn't serve them up in an easily searchable database with the information prettily graphed, and that's the value added by The Washington Post's treatment of the logs.
Any news buff would want to sit down with Washington Post reporter Jason Horowitz to hear how his story of Mitt Romney's high school days came together, but in case you don't have his number the next best thing is his account to Capital New York.
In today's meta-media circular circle-of-circleness news, the journalist who wrote a book about former a Washington Post editor says The Washington Post won't write about him because there's too many people talking about The Washington Post. (Got that?)
Jennifer Rubin hurt another one of her colleague's feelings today, the latest clash in a series of intra-office disputes with her fellow Washington Post co-workers.
Politico's profile of Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and his run of top-level scoops has been greeted with some grumbling from his colleagues who are quick to point out that his high-profile exclusives were based on leaks from the White House.
Perhaps in an effort to exorcise some of the "ghosts" from its newsroom, The Washington Post reportedly offered New York Times managing editor Richard Berke the managing editor position it's had open since late January, but he turned it down.
The Washington Post followed up on its big investigation into congressional earmarks with a report Wednesday that found some legislators were directing government funds to organizations at which they had family on staff, which turns out to be is perfectly legal.
What the Wall Street Journal calls a "love story" between Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Washington Post CEO Donald Graham sounds more parasitic than the average bromance.
The Players: David Zurawik, television critic for The Baltimore Sun who's not a fan of Chelsea Clinton journalism; Erik Wemple, media reporter and critic for The Washington Post who actually explains why he isn't a fan of Chelsea Clinton's journalism (yet).
The Washington Post has succeeded in reuniting a lost iPod with its owner—but not by combing through their playlists but rather looking at the Apple ID information associated with the device.
Players: Gene Weingarten, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post who doesn't understand lolcats (or readers' infatuation with lolcats); Ben Huh, CEO of meme network I Can Has Cheezburger? which gave birth to the lolcat.
Players: Edwin Chen, federal communications director for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a former White House correspondent for Bloomberg; The Washington Post, which has been writing about the National Resources Defense Council.
The hometown paper of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is cleaning up his latest political scandal better than his own PR team.
Jay Carney wears cool glasses: now fight about it
It's a plug that could drive sales in the coveted 18-34 jihadist demographic
It's been one month since the journalist's came out an undocumented immigrant
News organizations would like your help going through the 24,199 pages
On the dream GOP candidate, lessons from piracy, and the anti-Palin
Joe Biden eyed two other reporters before hiring the Washington Post's Shailagh Murray
Dana Milbank speaks out on his newspaper's embarrassing courtship of Donald Trump
A columnist for the Post called the invitation of the birther candidate "embarrassing"
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