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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 4, 2010 Media

Hyperlocal journalism and TBD: More coming on what makes a great ‘hyper’ site

Nope, TBD and affiliate bloggers, I’m not done yet. I have a few other ideas to try out this week—based

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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 16, 2010 Media

Death notice gouges: $450 for 182 words in the San Francisco Chronicle?

Alan "Newsosaur" Mutter balked at paying the $450 that the San Francisco Chronicle wanted to charge for a "one-day run

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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 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 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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