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Media Decoder Blog: Washington Post Will Further Reduce Staff

by By JEREMY W. PETERS on Feb 8, 2012 • No Comments

The paper, struggling to overcome the decline in advertising, has reduced the size of its newsroom staff by more than 200 people over the last three years.

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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 8, 2012

by MediaShift on Feb 8, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Amazon and Viacom nearing web-video deal (Reuters)

2. Sky News clamps down on Twitter use (Guardian)

3. Le Huffington Post Québec launches (FishbowlNY)

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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 3, 2012

by MediaShift on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Netflix and WaPo bought a combined $8M in Facebook ads last year, IPO says (All Facebook)

2. Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook (Reuters)

3. How...

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The Washington Post tries a new weapon to fight the trolls: humans

by Andrew Phelps on Feb 1, 2012 • No Comments

Reader comments at the Washington Post website have shot up 142 percent since the paper switched to the Echo platform in March 2011, according to Jon DeNunzio, the Post's interactivity editor. The community is growing so fast that Post staffers will start getting more personally involved, starting now. And not just the six people dedicated to comments full-time...

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Facebook’s Latest Scoop: Thousands Of Journalists Use Subscribe Feature

by Ingrid Lunden on Jan 25, 2012 • No Comments

For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using its new Subscribe feature, an...

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A Post-mortem with Raju Narisetti: “I would have actually tried to move faster”

by Andrew Phelps on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

Raju Narisetti does not seem like the kind of guy who settles. "I'm a big believer in newsrooms being in a permanent beta stage," he told me recently. His Twitter bio hits inspirational notes ("Everything seems impossible until it is done"), but until a few days ago, it also included a sentence inspired by the...

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Media Decoder Blog: Washington Post Managing Editor Leaves for The Journal

by By NOAM COHEN on Jan 20, 2012 • No Comments

Raju Narisetti will become the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, which includes WSJ.com, SmartMoney.com, MarketWatch and the Chinese, Japanese and German-language editions of WSJ.com

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WSJ Poaches Narisetti From Washington Post

by Staci D. Kramer on Jan 20, 2012 • No Comments

The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is headed back to the Journal, swapping his role as managing editor of the Washington Post responsible for digital for managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Digital Network....

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NewsRight’s potential: New content packages, niche audiences, and revenue

by Martin Langeveld on Jan 17, 2012 • No Comments

When NewsRight began to lift the veil a couple of weeks ago, most of the attention and analysis focused on "preserving the value" of news content for content owners and originators. In the first round of reports and commentary on the launch, various bloggers and analysts quickly made comparisons to Righthaven, the infamous and all-but-defunct...

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A Broken Joe Paterno Gives Sad, Insightful Interview To Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins

by Nando Di Fino on Jan 14, 2012 • No Comments

Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, 85, has been relatively mum since his dismissal -- by phone call -- as head coach of the football team. But after undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer, and forced to a wheelchair because of a broken pelvis suffered in December, Paterno decided to open up to...

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A Broken Joe Paterno Gives Sad, Insightful Interview To Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins

by Nando Di Fino on Jan 14, 2012 • No Comments

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Washington Post Fact-Checker Upgrades Mitt Romney Jobs Claim To 3 ‘Pinocchios’

by Tommy Christopher on Jan 13, 2012 • No Comments

Last week, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler did a great job of disproving Mitt Romney's claim that he created 100,000 jobs through Bain Capital, but made the bewildering judgment that the claim merited but a single "Pinocchio."After watching Romney at Saturday's ABC News debate, Kessler came back with a new ruling: the...

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