WashingtonPost.com: True/Slant – mapping a new relationship

Howard Kurtz takes a look at True/Slant, a website ‘that is mapping a new relationship between journalists, readers and advertisers’:

“Lewis Dvorkin, founder of the site, which officially launches today after a trial run, makes no apologies for throwing out the old model. ‘It’s tailored for the entrepreneurial journalist,’ he says. ‘We’re enabling and empowering journalists to develop their own brand.’”

Full story at this link…

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WashingtonPost.com: ‘The survival strategy’ of newsmags

Howard Kurtz takes a look at magazines Time and Newsweek, and asks ‘do newsmags still matter?’

“The rival editors are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal,” writes Kurtz.

“It is nothing less than a survival strategy,” he says.

Full story…

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Washingtonpost.com: First ever female managing editor at Washington Post

Two new managing editors have been named at the Washington Post: one of them is a the first woman in the role in the paper’s history. Full story…

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WashingtonPost.com: Howard Kurtz asks ‘does Obama need the press?’

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