Less than a year after he joined the newspaper, John Temple is stepping down as one of The Washington Post’s managing editors.

Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron made the first big newsroom move of his leadership of the paper by announcing that national editor Kevin Merida will be moving up the masthead to managing editor.

Staffers at the Washington Times just don’t get a break, do they? Apart being regularly lambasted for working for a money-bleeding newspaper owned by the odd Rev. Sun Myung Moon, now they’re getting a in-depth look into the struggle for the paper’s leadership. This week The Nation features as its cover story a 4,200-word expose on the battle between current Editor-in-Chief Wesley Pruden and Preston Moon, the reverend’s son. According to the piece, Pruden, now…

A company called Eyetools Research has posted an interesting analysis of the Washington Post’s new website, concluding that although the design of the top part of the page is very good, the design of the bottom half could be improved: “ineffective line-height spacing and lack of white-space reduce reading. Most of the content is being missed and there is no consistent guidance of eyes to section headings.” The image is the company’s heatmap of the…

Wonkette points DCist to a new article from the Southern Poverty Law Center showing the connection between The Washington Times and several groups with explicit racist agendas. The list of ethically questionable practices from the W.Times uncovered by the SPLC is long. Marian Coombs, wife of Managing Editor Fran Coombs, has had 35 opinion columns published in the paper — with no mention of her connection to her husband. This alone is not too alarming…