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Author: David Rothman

David Rothman is the founder and publisher of the TeleRead e-book site and cofounder of LibraryEndowment.org. He is also author of Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival. Other books are The Solomon Scandals novel and six tech-related books on topics ranging from the Internet to laptops. Passionate on digital divide issues, he is now pushing for the creation of a national digital library endowment.
March 6, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Danny Bloom’s newspaper obit song: Praise from Carl Bernstein and at least 1/2 an Ear

In the newspaper love department, I’m a piker compared to Danny Bloom, an American journalist living in Taiwan. Check out

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March 4, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Washington Post iPhone app panned by gutsy WaPo technology writer: Symptom of worse woes?

Update, March 19: Hooray! The Post app in its current form now lets you change type size more gracefully. Tap

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March 2, 2010 Lorain, Ohio / Media / The Solomon Scandals

‘What Would Google Do’ with my old steeltown newspaper in Lorain, Ohio? Here’s what I’D do.

Related: Media critic James Fallows and Google News’ Josh Cohen will discuss digital-era journalism tomorrow, Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m., in

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March 1, 2010 Media / Publicity / Washington area life

‘White House Girlz of DC’? ‘Sorority putsch’ against Social Secretary Desiree Rodgers?

The Georgetown Dish has the details about the women of 3303 Water St., N.W. Once again Life catches up with

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February 28, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Reporters vs. publishers and editors: On IQs, faulty edits, a Knopf editor and an unnamed columnist

The Solomon Scandals is a reporter’s novel, with editors and the publisher in the way of truth and decency. If

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February 27, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

The Washington Post, Sally Quinn and the Mink Stole Ladies: How much VIP-watching is too much?

How closely should the world follow VIP journalists and politicians and—for that matter—celebrities in general? “Newspapers spend too much time

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February 24, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Sally Quinn’s ‘Party’ column dropped from print: Shades of LBJ’s Hoover surprise for her husband?

LBJ was about to replace J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director when word leaked to Newsweek. So what did the

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February 22, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Sally Quinn wedding feud: Don’t fire Ms. Quinn — turn her ‘at large’

My “Don’t fire” headline is for the benefit of out-of-towners. As a close friend of the Grahams, the owning family

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February 22, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

The Sally Quinn post

It should be online by 7 p.m. Eastern tonight, and, yes, it’s mostly sympathetic toward her. I’ll make my case

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