UPDATE: NPR spokesperson Anna Christopher Bross contacted us this afternoon to clarify that NPR did not have a direct role in any decision to remove Simeone from the hosting duties of Soundprint. more ›

Gothamist is looking for another long-form non-fiction feature to publish. more ›

Gothamist is looking for another long-form non-fiction feature to publish. more ›

In a blow to both print and local journalism, the Washington Post announced this afternoon that it would be shutting down nine of its 11 regional bureaus. more ›

D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan has finally produced some thoughts on the lawsuit filed by R******s owner Dan Snyder against Washington City Paper and columnist Dave McKenna -- and, not surprisingly, he's coming down on the side of the journalists. more ›

Then you better get ready for some challenges, like having sea foam and sewage blown all over you. Or, as the New York Times' Brian Stelter notes, never having time to pee and having to use prophylactics to keep your gear in proper working condition. more ›

In the District, it's the owner of the football-team-that-shall-not-be-named that's suing a local publication. But for the District's northern-most urban neighbor, though, it's an elected official that went after a journalist. more ›

Last week's arrest of two journalists at a public meeting of the D.C. Taxicab Commission highlighted something of a loophole in the District's new Open Meetings law -- it doesn't say anything about whether the public or the press are allowed to record the proceedings, or when a commission, board or agency can limit or prohibit it. That looks like it's going to change. more ›

Yesterday, former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas revealed in a piece published by the New York Times Magazine that he is an undocumented immigrant. While Vargas' piece was eye-opening and could possibly could lead to him being deported, we also found it interesting that the paper where Vargas won a Pulitzer, the Post, didn't run with the story. more ›

In 2008, Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Virginia Tech massacre. Today, Vargas turned the pen on himself, writing in the New York Times Magazine that he has lived illegally in the U.S. since first arriving from the Philippines in 1993. more ›

A look at the Critical Exposure program, through which D.C. public school students are demanding more from their school system via their photography. more ›

It looks like J. Freedom du Lac's Alternating Year Law regarding Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post will hold: the newspaper pulled in only one Pulitzer this year -- the award for Breaking News Photography went to Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti for their work in Haiti after the earthquake which devastated that nation. Congratulations to the trio -- Guzy, Kahn and Carioti truly produced some incredibly relentless, moving work. more ›

After Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder filed a lawsuit against the Washington City Paper which a Redskins general counsel claimed would "presumably quickly outstrip the asset value" of the publication, the newspaper has announced the establishment of a legal defense fund. more ›

Dan Snyder has finally broken his silence. The Washington Redskins owner spoke up this afternoon about precisely why he's decided to send his legal hounds after the Washington City Paper over Dave McKenna's brilliant "The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder." And you'll never be able to guess why: it's because he "loves the media," duh! more ›

As demonstrations and violence in Egypt intensify, it has been reported that two journalists from the Washington Post have been arrested by Egyptian authorities. more ›

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder reportedly wants City Paper columnist Dave McKenna fired. The public, on the other hand, apparently can't get enough of the guy. more ›

Is the Newseum a financial drain? Yes, and it's an enormous one, according to this incredibly exhaustive post by Jim Hopkins, a former reporter and editor at USA Today who now runs the independent Gannett Blog. more ›

American University journalism grad students put together a special edition of their online publication, the American Observer, studying the District in flux called "A City Divided." The edition looks at a D.C. following the mayoral election that many believe showed the biggest divide in the city: between the old-school, perhaps lower income, longer term residents who voted for Vince Gray and the younger, new arrivals with perhaps more progressive, reform-minded ideas who voted for Adrian Fenty. more ›

Now, I didn't attend Medill or anything, but I'd like to think that I have enough common sense to know that publishing an editorial which suggests killing a controversial public figure is a poor decision. But the Washington Times apparently doesn't have any problem with it. more ›

In news which shouldn't surprise anyone, sports columnist Michael Wilbon will officially leave the Washington Post at the end of the year. Wilbon has spent 32 years at the paper. According to a memo obtained by FishbowlDC, Wilbon will be pursuing an expanded role at ESPN/ABC, the station on which he, along with fellow former Postie Tony Kornheiser, launched his incredibly popular Pardon the Interruption program and for whom he serves as an NBA analyst. "The ESPN/ABC rocket ship that Michael Wilbon has been riding the past several years has finally left our orbit," the memo stated, adding that the "decision did not come easy for" Wilbon. Wilbon still has plenty of pull, and the guy has had a career that any sports journalist would kill for -- he's covered 24 Super Bowls and ten Olympic Games, for starters. Wilbon is the second big name to leave the paper in recent weeks -- longtime columnist and reporter Howard Kurtz left the Post in early October. more ›

The Washington Independent -- which, over the last three years, has been a must-read for those of us who appreciate our online news presented by incredibly intelligent reporters who possess a keen understanding of policy and why things matter -- announced today that it would be closing up shop. In a statement posted on the Independent's website this afternoon, editor Aaron Wiener explained that, despite all its sparkling journalism, TWI was simply swallowed by the financial realities of the day. more ›

There's a bit of a media brouhaha over at 1150 15th Street NW concerning the future of Washington Post television and culture critic Tom Shales. Shales, who has been working on contract for the Post after taking the newspaper's buyout back in 2006, wrote on Washington Post Co. CEO Don Graham's Facebook wall that he was up and quitting his job come December 31. Shales reconfirmed late last night with TBD's Andrew Beaujon that he was definitely leaving. But Washingtonian's Harry Jaffe reported today that Shales is still under contract for 2011. But is everyone overlooking the most interesting part of this story? As DCist pop culture contributor Chris Klimek points out, Jaffe's Washingtonian story on Shales says that the critic had been "making in the neighborhood of $400,000 a year" while writing for the Post before the buyout. Holy cow. In yet another incredible twist to the story, Shales told Beaujon that he is "heavily in debt and my house is underwater." more ›

Some rather surprising media news to share this afternoon: Howard Kurtz, who has been a reporter and columnist at the Washington Post for 29 years, will be leaving the paper to join online news site The Daily Beast as its Washington bureau chief. Kurtz, who is also the host of CNN's Reliable Sources, will report on and analyze national politics and media in his new position. In an official statement on the Daily Beast's site, Kurtz cited "the challenge of fast-paced online journalism" as one of his main reasons for moving from the Post. more ›

Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise tried to make a statement about the way that we consume media in the social media age. For that, he's reportedly been suspended from his job for a month. The lesson: no one is bigger than the medium. more ›

Mike DeBonis -- who, as the journalist who most recently occupied the position, seems the right person to break the news -- reports that the Washington City Paper has hired a new Loose Lips columnist. A hearty congratulations go to Alan Suderman, who had most recently covered D.C. and Montgomery County politics for the Washington Examiner. Suderman will be the seventh LL in City Paper's 27-year history. Freeman Klopott will move from his crime beat at the Examiner to take over for Suderman. more ›

You know, a wise man once told me that if you make it really easy for someone to do something they feel compelled to do, then they'll probably do it -- despite all warnings to the contrary. Put a warm cookie in front of a child and tell them it will burn their mouth, and the kid will still grab and chomp. Put a cocktail in front of an alcoholic in distress and he'll probably drink it. Make it incredibly easy for someone to siphon your work for a few extra pageviews despite all conventional mores, and damn it, they'll be slapping Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V faster than you can get the words "fair use" out of your mouth. more ›

Calling it "a planned new venture that went off track," Washington Post Publisher and CEO Katharine Weymouth apologized to readers today after it was revealed that the newspaper had been planning to trade access to journalists and government officials for cash in the form of "Post Salon" dinner events. more ›

In case you haven't seen it yet, make sure to read Mike Allen's pretty amazing story over at Politico, which exposes a new business plan being put together by The Washington Post that would offer lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to high ranking government officials at "Post Salon" dinner events in exchange for huge cash payments, starting at $25,000 a pop. The really astonishing part of the story is already being walked back (sort of) by The Washington Post newsroom, however, as a flier obtained by Politico insinuated that access to the paper's own reporters and editors was also potentially for sale. Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli and spokesperson Kris Coratti told Politico that the newsroom would not participate in the first scheduled event, which will focus on health-care reform, because it would be inappropriate, but left room for the possibility that other Post Salons might feature editorial staffers. UPDATE 12:38 p.m.: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth has just announced that she's canceling all the dinners. What a mess. more ›

“So the thing you have to understand is this is radio,” says the voice in the darkness — a little bit squeaky, a little bit nasal, not at all the voice you’d assign to the leader of a benign radio cult if it weren't already so familiar. more ›