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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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July 1, 2010 Media / Washington area life

TBD’s Washington area news startup: Niche blogs wooed—but no signs YET of a hyperlocal nirvana

Update, July 2: Here, including further comments from TBD. Thanks for listening. – D.R. The TBD Web startup for local

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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 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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April 3, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Apple iPad: Another way to read ‘The Solomon Scandals’ and other books

The Solomon Scandals is mostly about yesterday, but e-books do show up briefly in the afterword. We learn about the

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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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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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