For those of us who follow local media commentary, today’s a big day — Erik Wemple, formerly of Washington City Paper and TBD (both outlets where he was not shy about criticizing his current employer), launched his Washington Post blog last night.
TBD Editor Erik Wemple is taking his talents to the Washington Post. POLITICO reports this afternoon that Wemple — who really raked the Post over the coals during his tenure as editor of the Washington City Paper — will be the paper’s newest media beat reporter.
UPDATE (7:20 p.m.): “Everyone here is saddened about this,” Wemple told DCist via email this evening. “Jim is not only the ultimate web guy but the ultimate colleague. So that’s pretty much where we are right now. … Exactly how we’re going to do the work that Jim has done is something we’re going to have to sort out as time goes on. We’ll miss him.”
Washington City Paper Editor-in-Chief Erik Wemple Erik Wemple, editor-in-chief of the Washington City Paper, is leaving the alt-weekly for higher ground, City Desk reports. Wemple’s been tapped to lead a new, all-local online venture planned by Robert Allbritton, the brain behind the Capitol Hill upstart newspaper Politico and owner of local ABC affiliate WJLA and News Channel 8. Allbritton’s new project is estimated to have 50 staffers, some culled from WJLA and News Channel…
The Washington Business Journal reported yesterday that the Washington Convention Center will be officially renamed to honor D.C.’s first elected mayor, Walter E. Washington. Apparently the D.C. Council approved the name change last year, though we can’t recall having heard about it at the time. The idea is a fine one though, and Washington is certainly worthy of having his legacy honored. So what’s the problem? As of Nov. 5, the building will officially become…
>> Don’t forget: thousands of dirty hippies and the gun-toting maniacs who hate them are getting together for a big ol’ hootenanny down on the National Mall tomorrow morning. It’s the War on War on War. >> At the Washington City Paper, editorial assistants who make mistakes aren’t just named, they’re taken out back and tortured with one million paper cuts using the latest issue while Erik Wemple screams “you’re not good enough to…
Via Editor & Publisher, the Washington City Paper, along with the Chicago Reader, which the City Paper owns, has been sold to Atlanta-based company Creative Loafing, publisher of four other alternative weeklies in Atlanta, Tampa, Sarasota, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C. The City Paper name will remain in place, despite the other four papers all carrying the “Creative Loafing” name. In a post to the City Paper’s staff blog, City Desk, Senior Editor Mike DeBonis said…
Since they were apparently sick of all the best scoops going to the Post, the folks at the City Paper have been nice enough to grant us a little nugget of information — Mike DeBonis, currently Senior Editor at the alt-weekly, will become the newest Loose Lips columnists. As you may recall, in late June James Jones stepped down as author of the vital local politics column, choosing to move on to a stint at…
>> Vice President Dick Cheney is claiming that, for the purposes of securing classified information, his office is not part of the executive branch. Exactly which branch are you in then, Mr. Vice President? [Raw Story] >> Are you ready for another severe thunderstorm alert? The National Weather Service just issued one from now until 10 p.m. >> There’s a book launch party tonight for Murray Waas’ The United States vs. I. Lewis Libby. Somehow…
Since 1983, Loose Lips, the City Paper’s weekly local politics column, has been the place to get quirky news and commentary on the District’s political figures. But today, James Jones, Loose Lips columnist for the last two years, bids farewell to the paper. Jones came to the City Paper after a stint at WAMU, and his first column was published on March 11, 2005. According to the folks at the City Paper, Jones has taken…