It was just two weeks ago that City Paper Editor in Chief Erik Wemple announced he’d be moving on up in the world, heading up to New York to take the helm of the famed Village Voice. We guessed it wouldn’t be long until he was back in D.C. — and we were right. Well, to be fair, he never really even got started. He was set to take over the paper on July 24,…

It was a week ago that the Washington City Paper joined the blogosphere, kicking off their staff blog, City Desk. Since then, they have posted on politics, media, fashion, theater and even kicked off their own question-and-answer feature, “The ‘Huh?’ Bub.” But unlike the Post’s Metro reporters, who have admitted to DCist that blogging on D.C. Wire is an “annoyance,” the City Paper’s staff seems to be enjoying the newfound online medium. Wrote Senior Editor…

It was just a few weeks back that the Washington City Paper completed a long overdue overhaul to their website, and now they have followed many a mainstream media mainstay before them and jumped on the blogging bandwagon. It wasn’t long ago that the CPers were complaining about the prospect; in a March 17th piece on Washington Post blogging requirements without additional pay, City Paper editor Erik Wemple noted, “Full disclosure: The Washington City Paper…

We awoke this morning to a new and shocking sight — the Washington City Paper, the District’s godfather of alternative press, had redone their website. And not a minute too early, we might add. The City Paper’s website was always, to put it mildly, stuck in 1998. Such an online presentation was a clear injustice to what was otherwise good writing, quirky features, and solid alternative journalism. The paper’s new site is brighter, sharper, and…