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December 11, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Washington Post update: iPad app still shines, Sally Quinn gets honored, and I remember the darker side—the Post’s role in Gary Webb’s suicide

Do Ben Bradlee and other Washington Post luminaries actually use the iPad app they touted in one hoot of a

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July 19, 2010 Media / Washington area life

How Washington Post and New York Times could outgun hyperlocal sites like TBD and Baristanet

In 2004 Baristanet—the lively hyperlocal network that helped inspire similar operations in several states—started writing up picnics, schools and other

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July 6, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Georgetown Dish joins TBD blog network: Deju vu angles—in Washington Post’s backyard

Newest member of the TBD blog network in the Washington area is is none other than the Georgetown Dish. It’s

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July 2, 2010 Media / Washington area life

TBD, meet NYC’s Westside Independent: Role model for SOME neighborhood blog affiliates?

You already know if you’ve been following the Solomon Scandals blog. My name is David, I’m a newsaholic, and I’m

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May 26, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

‘David Rothman’ namesakes: Egosurfers, here’s what the rest of us are up to

I’ve remarked before on weird coincidences related to my name. Two letters, for example, distinguish me from David Roffman, at

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

Hyperlocal journalism: Georgetown publisher robbed—and eager to tell neighbors about it. Lesson for the Washington Post?

Update, 1:47 p.m.: Post rival’s local news strategy—a Poynter Institute item. – D.R. My online friend Beth Solomon, publisher of

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January 30, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

‘The Rothman Scandal’: What’s good for the Solomons is good for…

Beth Solomon of TheGeorgetownDish is a good sport about the existence of a D.C. novel with a villain named Solomon:

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January 11, 2010 The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

TheGeorgetownDish is eying D.C. suburbs—plus Greenwich, Palm Beach, other upscale markets

So what’s ahead for TheGeorgetownDish—the new Web-based newspaper in the D.C. neighborhood where so many high-powered media types live? How

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January 10, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

TheGeorgetownDish starts up: Hyperlocal newspaper war ahead? Or a friendly buyout?

A new online newspaper, the TheGeorgetown Dish, is starting up right in the neighborhood of Ben Bradlee, Sally Quinn and

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