The Pack will distribute the first, and likely only, issue of its paper across D.C. on Saturday.
Just because Warren Buffett started buying up dozens of small-town and suburban newspapers this year, it apparently doesn’t mean he’s going to keep all of them in business.
A bit less than 18 months from now, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg will be a 71-year-old former big-city executive sitting on a $22 billion fortune. Reuters’ Jack Shafer says he should buy The Washington Post.
The Washington Post is hurting, and new circulation numbers show how bad the hurt is.
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!
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.
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.
And now, for today’s lesson in cultivating numerous media sources!
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.
