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June 3, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Sally Quinn, snobbery and the Mink Stole Ladies Syndrome

Washington is full of people telling others how to live their lives or at least wishing they could. Same for

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April 22, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Washington Post vs. Allbritton’s TBD Web startup plans: BOTH sides could do better

Mediaite has it right. Halfhearted measures like a kind-of local blog network are not enough to protect the Washington Post’s

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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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April 19, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Student newspaper raided at JMU: As if a slavery-blind Guv isn’t enough for Virginia

Virginia, where the governor honored "Confederate History Month" without at first even acknowledging the evils of slavery, has another winner

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March 26, 2010 Media

Robot reporters crossed with mannequins?

Face it. Human journalists have flaws, and I don’t simply mean typos and other atrocities in print and online. Pity

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March 23, 2010 Buying info / The Solomon Scandals

‘Red Hot’ Engel sisters, possible iPad edition, Henry Adams and ‘Scandalize your classroom’

Remember my optimism about Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, the play by the Engel twins, based

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March 10, 2010 Lorain, Ohio / Media

Google IS killing newspapers—but not in the way you might think

I mourn the decline of traditional newspapers, like The Telegram in The Solomon Scandals, despite their many flaws. How many

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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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February 20, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Rexwood Garst and the darker side of ‘meritocracy’ in journalism, politics and other fields

In The Solomon Scandals, I have a little fun with a hyperspecialized Yalie named Rexwood Garst, a reporter at a

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