The Washington Post is hurting, and new circulation numbers show how bad the hurt is. more ›

Last week, we theorized that, given the data, our favorite Post columnist who hates Twitter despite having a Twitter account would probably be best suited to a job anywhere but New York or Los Angeles. Or maybe not! more ›

The Washington Post may still be the newspaper of record for out-of-towners to cite when it comes to mocking the hipness quotient of the District and her surroundings, but it's sure not making much money. more ›

Apparently, things in the print media industry are even worse than we thought. Patch reports that Peter Labovitz, the president and CEO of Alexandria-based Connection Newspapers, will be heading to jail after he collected thousands of dollars in payroll taxes from his employees, but failed to send the money to the IRS. more ›

And now, for today's lesson in cultivating numerous media sources! more ›

Hey, we're not the only ones enthralled with the adventures of Pat Collins. A recent Pew survey shows that television news remains the way that most people get their local news. more ›

In yet the latest sign that newspapers are slowly going the way of the buffalo, George Washington University has put an end to its Collegiate Readership Program, in which students got free daily delivery of the The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. 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 ›

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 ›

According to the New York Times, embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is planning to resign. Weiner's office on the Hill has reportedly been vacated and locked, and no one is answering the phone. The tabloids tomorrow should be interesting, huh? more ›

The front page of yesterday's D.C. Examiner was as loud as it was shocking: "Violent crimes by teens soar in D.C.: Homicide, rape, assault up 10 percent." Agggh! You afraid yet? If not, maybe you should be -- summer break is but a few weeks away, meaning that we're in for a violent, bloody few months, right? Well, maybe not. more ›

Kudos to DeMatha Catholic High School band founder/director John Mitchell, who was profiled by the New York Times yesterday. more ›

Sure, we probably could pound out a few hundred words about the Capitals' epic comeback from 3-0 down against the Rangers in Madison Square Garden last night. (After all, the campaign to dub the rally and Jason Chimera's double overtime game-winner as the "Miracle on 34th Street" appears to be picking up steam.) But this image, taken from the back cover of this morning's New York Daily News, just wraps things up perfectly. more ›

The great media redesign movement of 2010 continues unabated -- but unlike their competitors at the Washington Post and City Paper, the Washington Times isn't satisfied with a mere redesign; no, they're marking the season by actually getting back to being an legitimate newspaper, with sports, arts, and local news sections and home delivery. more ›

Today, the Washington Post unveiled a new tool which will allow readers to submit corrections to any report the newspaper releases on its website. While crowd-sourcing this job instead of just hiring a couple of extra digital copy editors is an...interesting move, we do feel obliged to pass along our deepest condolences to the poor sap who has to be the one to sift through all these comments -- especially when it comes to the responses that the "Is there some other way we can improve this story?" field will attract. more ›

Is the District the most well-read city in the United States? Central Connecticut State University says so: their annual rankings of America’s Most Literate Cities ranks Washington, DC at the top of the list. more ›

Jim Romenesko passes along the news that Vernon Loeb, currently a deputy managing editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, will be returning to the Washington Post to serve as its new Local Editor. It sounds like a good move for the Post -- Loeb's got plenty of experience dealing with the ins and outs of D.C., having previously covered Marion Barry's fourth term as mayor for the Post's B section. more ›

How we enjoy it when the New York Times takes some time out of its busy routine of pontificating on the state of the modern woman to cast a spotlight on the Washington area! Yesterday, the Times' Media Decoder blog lent some attention to the Washington Examiner's crime-fighting abilities. Oh, you didn't know that the paper possessed such awesome powers? more ›

This week, the Washington Post released its iPad application. DCist reviewed the application and found it to be less than impressive. more ›

Today the New York Times has a great story on how the medical marijuana industry may well save local newspapers starved for advertising dollars. Basically, the medical marijuana industry in the states where it is legal has been something of a boon to alt-weeklies. more ›

Capitol Hill neighborhood newspaper Voice of the Hill has announced that it will cease publication effective immediately, citing a decline in advertising revenue. more ›

To say that the President-less, sports section-less, layoff-happy Washington Times is in trouble would be akin to saying that Wile E. Coyote is just an underachiever -- that is, an understatement of Biblical proportions. more ›

What's this? A Washington Post Morning Roundup? We were amazed enough when the City Paper turned up an internal Post memo that urged reporters to start providing more links inside their stories. But this city's newspaper of record has long held fast to the outdated notion that acknowledging the work of other news outlets is somehow a sign of weakness, a policy that has made the Post appear petty and/or tone deaf on plenty of occasions since the internet became a juggernaut. But linking to provide context inside the text of a news story is one thing -- actually providing a Roundup, which exists solely to point readers to what other outlets are reporting -- that's an entirely different story. Could the Washington Post actually be on the verge of a cultural revolution? more ›

UPDATE: We probably should have known better than to trust Jaffe to get the details of something involving the Post totally right. Instead, we'll let the Washington Business Journal take it away: inside the Beltway, the daily paper will continue to cost 75 cents, while the Sunday paper will go up to $2. Outside the Beltway, the cost of the daily paper will increase to $1. more ›

After just a year on the job, it's hard to say that Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli hasn't made his presence known. more ›

City Desk recently ran an item about how Street Sense, D.C.'s homeless newspaper, was one of the only local publications thriving during the recession. As a volunteer member of the board of directors of Street Sense, the piece made me cringe just a little bit, even though I get what reporter Chris Lewis was trying to say: more and more people are turning to jobs selling the paper, so circulation is up. But make no mistake, this has been an incredibly shaky year financially for Street Sense, just like every other non-profit in town. Grants and donations are down across the board, and the board has had to make difficult choices to keep the organization, which employs almost 100 area homeless men and women, afloat. more ›

It really is a brave new world for daily newspapers. The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun announced today that they will share a certain amount of content, including both local Maryland news and national, international and feature stories. Post editor Marcus Brauchli and outgoing Sun editor Tim Franklin both put out glowing statements assessing the esteemed worth of the other paper and how this arrangement will be beneficial to their readers, but surely this is largely being done to save money. The announcement indicates that the two papers will not "usually" share exclusive stories, but it's not hard to imagine this agreement could eventually ruffle feathers across competing Metro sections. Then again, the Sun's ever-shrinking newsroom could probably use the help. Full press release is after the jump. more ›

We understood why people were clamoring to buy last Wednesday's Washington Post, the one that declared that President-Elect Obama had made history. And sure, it made a certain amount of sense that D.C. residents started lining up at CVS that evening to snag a copy of the special $1.50 commemorative edition that came out later in the day, after the regular paper completely sold out. This was a huge moment in the history of this country, and even if the Washington Post ended up going with a pretty boring design for its cover, this is still the major paper of Washington, D.C., the center of American politics. more ›