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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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April 13, 2010 Media

The original ‘Front Page’ newspaper movie: Free from the Internet Archive

Why wait for the original version of The Front Page to show up on The Tube? You can legally enjoy

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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 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 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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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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