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  • June 2008

    • Washington Post Top Editor Calls It Quits

      Washington Post  |  Jun 23, 08 8:40 PM CDT

      Washington Post Top Editor Calls It Quits

      (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 ready to do this, because so much further change now needs to take place at the newspaper and Web site, and someone else should be tackling that." More »

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

  • January 2008

    • 'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      Washington Post  |  Jan 16, 08 1:25 PM CST

      'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      (Newser) - The portrayal of battered, prize-grubbing  and unscrupulous journalists in HBO's “The Wire”—based loosely on creator David Simon’s years at the downsizing Baltimore Sun —has provoked a furious internet outcry from some former colleagues who can't help but recognize themselves, the Washington Post reports. One highly regarded top editor dragged through the maybe-not-so-fictional muck calls Simon “a very angry guy"; another resents "Simon's dishonest efforts to revise history." More »

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      HBO  • The Wire  • Baltimore Sun  • newsrooms  • David Simon

  • October 2007

    • Wire's Architect Begins His Final Chapter

      New Yorker  |  Oct 15, 07 8:22 PM CDT

      Wire's Architect Begins His Final Chapter

      (Newser) - The final season of HBO critical darling The Wire lands in January, and will revolve around the newsroom—the last unscripted setting from creator David Simon’s own experience. The show has tackled drug runners, cops, dockworkers, and inner-city schoolchildren “with sociological precision,” reports New Yorker ’s Margaret Talbot, and will close with the onetime Sun reporter’s old haunts. More »

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      crime  • HBO  • Baltimore  • Baltimore Sun  • newsrooms  • David Simon

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