FishbowlDC registers a couple of hits taken by the District journosphere. On Friday, the Washington Post’s Marcus Brauchli sent a note around the office saying that the newspaper would be closing the Sunday Source (which Patrick Gavin calls his favorite section). What will happen? The memo says that the sections staff and beat will be distributed throughout the newspaper. But it raises a more interesting question: What is the Sunday Source?

Polling four friends at a local cafe, no one could recall any specific article or series from the Sunday Source section, although one mentioned something to do with maps of local trails. DCist’s Tom Lee described the Sunday Source as “like a blog, but printed on paper and about things that aren’t interesting.” The informal poll affirmed that the layout was the best and most memorable part of the section. (Will we see the large image-based front page in Style?)

Less print-blog and more blog-blog seems to be the rule at the Post. (And everywhere else.) Does the elimination signal a that the Post is taking a more refined direction? Back when Brauchli declared that the Post should not strive to be a “national paper of record”, he gave a tornado in Oklahoma as an example of news that the paper shouldn’t cover. But with the termination of the decidedly plain Sunday Source, maybe Brauchli just has a coastal-elitist bone to pick with all things that strike him as Midwest middlebrow?

On Friday, Fishbowl DC also broke a story about layoffs at NBC’s Washington bureau. Kevin Corke, described as a newcomer, got a pink slip but nevertheless Facebook-statused that he is “still smiling.” Keep your heads up, District journos.

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