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ANALYSIS

Obama Blanked Top Papers But Took Tough Questions

But president endured tougher questioning than last conference

Mar 25, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama bypassed reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other major papers last night, instead taking questions from Spanish-language TV station Univision and military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Yet the president faced tougher questions than at his first press conference, often in the... More »

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Barack Obama • New York Times • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • Univision • press conference • CNN • Obama administration • President Obama • prime time

(Newser) - The latest newspaper to cut back on business coverage and stock listings is the Washington Post, Reuters reports. The paper will stop publishing a standalone daily business section and beef up its Sunday section, according to an internal memo. The executive editor spun the cuts as a move to integrate... More »

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newspaper • Washington Post • business • journalism • Marcus Brauchli • newspaper industry • business news

(Newser) - President Obama goes to bat for his stimulus package today in an editorial in the Washington Post, calling it “more than a prescription for short-term spending—it’s a strategy for America’s long-term growth.” He says the criticisms of it are “misguided,” advocating “... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington Post • economic stimulus package • Obama administration • op-ed • President Obama

Post Folds Book Review Section to Cut Costs

Literature reviews will be shuffled into other sections of paper

Jan 28, 09 6:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The Washington Post will print Book World—its stand-alone Sunday section—for the last time Feb. 15 and shuffle its reviews into other newspaper sections to cut costs, the New York Times reports. Book World will remain intact online, run by a previously downsized staff. The closure comes amid... More »

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Washington Post • American media • book reviews • advertising sales • New York Times Book Review • literary criticism • newspaper industry • recession depression • Book World

 Big Day 
 a Windfall 
 for Newspapers 

Huge demand for special editions

Jan 19, 09 4:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Newspapers expect a multi-million-dollar windfall in extra sales to people who want a keepsake of Inauguration Day, and publishers are gearing up to make the most of it, Bloomberg reports. The Washington Post is  jacking up its price to $2, and the New York Times, USA Today and other publications... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • USA Today • Los Angeles Times • Chicago Tribune • souvenir • President Obama • Inauguration Day • newspaper industry • special editions

 Obama Dines With 
 Conservative Kings 

Dinner with vocal conservative critics

Jan 13, 09 11:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama broke bread with America's most influential conservative opinion shapers last night. The Washington Post reports he was guest of honor at a dinner party given by columnist George Will, along with Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer. Rumors were buzzing that Rush Limbaugh would attend, but a... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • Rush Limbaugh • Weekly Standard • George Will • David Brooks • President Obama • Chevy Chase Md • William Kristol • Charles Krauthammer

 Extra! Extra! Obama Win
Sells Out Newspapers 

Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, others go back to presses

Nov 5, 08 10:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s victory was excellent news for the newspaper business. Papers sold out so fast the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer fired up presses for a second run, with the Post rattling off 150,000 extra copies. Lines formed outside the New York Times building and Tribune... More »

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Barack Obama • newspaper • New York Times • Washington Post • Atlanta Journal Constitution • Election 2008 • Chicago Tribune • Cincinnati Enquirer

OPINION

 Post Backs Obama: 
 'Right Man for 
 Perilous Time' 

Paper cites candidate's impressive temperament, 'disappointing' rival

Oct 17, 08 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's intelligence, grasp of complex issues, and skill at consensus-building make him the right man to take on the huge challenges that await the next president, the Washington Post writes in a ringing endorsement. The choice was made easier by John McCain's "disappointing campaign"—especially his pick... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington Post • newspaper endorsement • political endorsement • Election 2008

'Bloom County' Cartoonist Retires Again

After 30 years, Breathed will turn focus to children's books

Oct 6, 08 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, the genius behind “Bloom County,” will retire his current strip, "Opus," on Nov. 2, the Washington Post reports. "With the crisis in Wall Street and Washington, I'm suspending my comic strip to assist the nation,” Breathed joked in a... More »

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Washington Post • cartoon • comics • Berkeley Breathed • Bloom County • Opus

ANALYSIS

Even Times Crossword Puzzle Favors Obama

Dem's vowel-heavy name better as clue than McCain, paper says

Sep 25, 08 11:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign chief looks to have been on to something when he accused the New York Times of being “in the tank” for Barack Obama; why else, David Levinson Wilk asks on Politico, would the paper’s crossword puzzle so thoroughly exclude John McCain? OBAMA has been... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • New York Times • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • crossword puzzle • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

ANALYSIS

Cable Dominates News by Blowing Up Stories

But print reporters dig up the stories that play on TV

Aug 2, 08 7:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twenty-four-hour cable networks set the news agenda by turning stories "from brushfire to raging conflagration," Paul Farhi writes in the American Journalism Review. Particularly during presidential campaigns, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pull stories from newspapers and web sites and make them hot by running them day and... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • MSNBC • news • journalism • Fox News • CNN • print journalism • television news • network news

Arrogance Charge Dogs Obama, Fueled by Misquote

Mark Halperin corrects the record

Jul 30, 08 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Washington Post reporter Jonathan Weisman fed the GOP line that Barack Obama is more presumptuous than presidential last night by quoting the candidate telling a gathering of House Dems yesterday, “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” Weisman quips,“... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington Post • hubris • hype • mis-quote

Ex-Journal Editor Lands Atop Post

Ousted by Murdoch, Brauchli, 46, heading
to Washington

Jul 7, 08 3:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post has picked Marcus Brauchli, a former top editor at the Wall Street Journal, as its executive editor, sources tell the New York Times, with a formal announcement coming later today or tomorrow. The 46-year-old Brauchli replaces the outgoing Leonard Downie, 66, and represents a dramatic generational shift... More »

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newspaper • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • editor • Marcus Brauchli

Washington Post Top Editor Calls It Quits

Downie presided as Internet transformed newspapers, media

Jun 23, 08 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post's executive editor is retiring, he said today, after a 17-year run that included many prizes, painful staff cuts, and the rise of the Internet. A low-profile but highly respected figure, Leonard Downie Jr. told his staff he would miss the paper. "At the same time I'm... More »

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newspaper • Washington Post • retirement • editor • newsrooms • newsroom cuts

Walter Reed Exposé Helps Post Net 6 Pulitzers

NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel among other winners

Apr 7, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post today won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the Walter Reed scandal and grabbed five more of the coveted awards in the biggest haul in the paper's history. A series on the power of Dick Cheney earned the national reporting medal, and... More »

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Dick Cheney • New York Times • Walter Reed fallout • Washington Post • Pulitzer Prize • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • lead tainted toys • Boston Globe • Chicago Tribune • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Cash-Strapped Papers Take Scribes Off Trail

Some mourn loss of perspective; others find blogs are OK substitute

Mar 26, 08 8:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The decline in the number of writers attached to presidential campaigns is “striking,” the New York Times reports—with only five newspapers trying to follow the candidates full-time. With per-person travel costs at $30,000, or more, a month, cash-strapped outlets are choosing not to foot the bill.... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • newspaper • New York Times • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • blogging • USA Today • Los Angeles Times • election • Dallas Morning News • Chicago Tribune • Timothy Crouse • The Boys on the Bus

SNL May Have Triggered Tougher Scrutiny of Obama

Sketches lampooned starry-eyed coverage

Mar 5, 08 5:12 AM CST
(Newser) - A Saturday Night Live sketch 10 days ago lampooning the perceived media bias favoring Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton may have changed the way Obama has been covered in the last several days, AP reports. The SNL debate skit showing starry-eyed journalists fawning over Obama echoed complaints by Clinton's supporters.... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • New York Times • Washington Post • Good Morning America • CBS News • media bias • Cleveland debate

Lesbian Gossip Trumps Mideast Peace Plan

Tabloid buzz draws more readers from hard news; CJR upset

Dec 3, 07 6:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Sure, Condoleezza Rice is trying to broker Mideast peace, but isn't she really gay? Like Hillary Clinton? And isn't John Edwards having an affair? A recent spate of articles has swung the political spotlight on gossip, the Times of London reports—and the Columbia Journalism Review is so concerned that... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • New York Times • Washington Post • Condoleezza Rice • National Enquirer • rumor

Washington Post Reporter Killed in Iraq

Shot taking photos in embattled neighborhood

Oct 15, 07 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Washington Post correspondent in Iraq was killed yesterday reporting from one of the  most volatile neighborhoods in Baghdad. Iraqi Salih Saif Aldin, 32, was shot in the head while taking photographs of burned-out homes. US news organizations rely heavily on Iraqi correspondents willing to  brave the hazards outside the... More »

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Iraq • Mahdi Army • Green Zone • Washington Post • journalists killed • Tikrit • Salih Saif Aldin • Sadiyah • Sudarsan Raghavan • Al Iraq Al Yawm • David E. Hoffman

Larry Flynt Hustles for Scandal

Offers $1-million for proof of sexual hijinks in high places

Jun 4, 07 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The porn king is trolling for scandal again: In an ad in yesterday's Washington Post, Larry Flynt asked: "Have you had a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official?"  If so—and you can prove it —a million... More »

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sex scandal • Washington Post • sex • Larry Flynt • affair • scandal

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