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

Judith Townend — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:28:02 +0000

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

Judith Townend — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:04:30 +0000

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

Judith Townend — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:42:46 +0000

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?’

Judith Townend — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:08:15 +0000

Barack Obama 'figured out early on that he had better limit his media consumption before it consumed him,' writes Howard Kurtz. Obama stopped reading and watching media as his campaign got underway, instead asking his staff to flag up important stories.

Washingtonpost.com: Bloggers criticise MSNBC’s anchor decision

Laura Oliver — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:45:11 +0000

Howard Kurtz comments on the bloggers' reaction to MSNBC's decision to remove Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor duty during live political events.