The Washington Post is the first major U.S. newspaper to create sponsored content on its website.

DCist wasn’t dead yesterday, but it was barely twitching. With “degraded performance” issues crippling Amazon Web Services, Gothamist LLC’s websites suffered the consequences.

There has been some recent discussion regarding our use of photos under a Creative Commons license. Some readers have objected to our posting of images with noncommercial restrictions, arguing that our parent organization, Gothamist LLC, is for-profit, and we therefore should not be considered appropriate users of those photos. We continue to believe that based on our revenue sharing arrangement with Gothamist, the way in which copyright responsibility is placed on writers, and the fact…