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Earnings: WaPo Q1 Profits Fall 39 Percent; Online Up 8 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 02 May 2008 06:03 AM PST

A dismal economy combined with the usual newspaper industry challenges led The Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) Q1 net income downward 39 percent to $39.3 million ($4.08 per share) from…

Industry Moves: WPNI CEO Caroline Little Resigns; WaPo Online Editorial Now Reports To Weymouth - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 11 Apr 2008 10:55 AM PST

Caroline Little, who heads up the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) online division, has quit, Reuters reports, citing unidentified sources. Little was CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the company’s…

Newspaper Roundup: Seattle Times; Journal Register; NYT-Google; Washington Post-Pulitzers - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Apr 2008 05:31 PM PST

-- Seattle Times: The Seattle Times Company has announced 200 job cuts at its flagship paper, 131 of which will come in the form of layoffs. Publisher Frank Blethen and…

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Washington Post Moves On After Closing Blog Ad Network - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 25 Mar 2008 01:21 PM PST

So why did the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) shut down its 16-month blog ad network last week? A PR rep would only say that the company was focusing on “doing…

Slate Readying New Business Site ‘The Big Money’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 17 Mar 2008 02:42 PM PST

Online magazine Slate, which said last year that it would launch a business site, plans to call its new venture The Big Money. Editor James Ledbetter told Reuters that the…

WaPo Interactive Invests In Social News Firm SocialMedian - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 12 Mar 2008 05:57 PM PST

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the digital media arm of WaPo has made an early-stage investment in SocialMedian, the yet-to-launch social news company/site founded by Jason Goldberg, former chief of Web 2.0 jobs…

10-K Watch: WaPo’s Online Growth Rate Slows Down In 2007 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 29 Feb 2008 08:11 AM PST

The Washington Post Company filed its annual 10-K with SEC yesterday, and some points about its digital growth (outside of Kaplan). One thing that caught my eye: “The Company’s online…

Earnings: Washington Post Q4 Revenue Up 8 Percent; WaPo.com Up 12 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 27 Feb 2008 06:39 AM PST

The Washington Post Co (NYSE: WPO). has announced Q4 revenue of $1.1 billion, up 8 percent year-on-year from $1.04 billion. Net income was down 13 percent to 82.9 million from…

Interview: Don Graham, CEO, Washington Post Co.; Katharine Weymouth, CEO, WP Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 07 Feb 2008 03:04 PM PST

It’s been a hectic day for Don Graham and his niece Katharine Weymouth, kicked off by the announcement that Weymouth will be the new publisher of the Washington Post and…

Washington Post Creates Media Group Including Newspaper, Online; Weymouth Will Be CEO, Publisher - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 07 Feb 2008 11:34 AM PST

Major changes at The Washington Post Company, with a new generation of the Graham family taking a lead role. Katharine Weymouth, niece of chairman and CEO Donald Graham, has been…

@ SIIA: Caroline Little, CEO, WPNI; Print And Digital Cooperating; More User-Gen - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 30 Jan 2008 01:22 PM PST

During a Q&A at SIIA, Caroline Little, CEO of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive discussed the role of digital at the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) and how it fits strategically with the print…

WaPo Starts A Black-Focused Commentary Site; Sprig Has “Grown More Slowly” Than Expected - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 27 Jan 2008 08:20 PM PST

Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is extending its slate of online brands and adding an online news and commentary site called TheRoot, focused on a black audience, with news and commentary…

Newspaper Roundup: Chicago Sun-Times; Mercury News; WaPo; Lee Enterprises - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Jan 2008 10:49 AM PST

Chicago Sun-Times: The Sun-Times Media Group-owned paper intends to cut 40 positions including 35 newsroom posts. The other five positions are in management. Last month, the company said it planned…

@ UBS Media Week: Donald Graham, CEO, Washington Post; More Hyperlocal Likely; In Talks on Partners - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 05 Dec 2007 09:23 AM PST

The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company has gone from being a ‘media & education’ company to an ‘education & media company’, as the the Kaplan education division is on the…

Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets With Facebook, OpenSocial - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 27 Nov 2007 10:01 PM PST

It’s tempting to shrug off most of the announcements about this and that service embracing various social net standards as “well, duh”—but this one includes so many media outlets, it’s…

Earnings: Washington Post Q3 Revenues up 8 Percent on Education, Cable; Online Revs up 11 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 01 Nov 2007 05:42 AM PST

The Washington Post Company reported Q3 revenues of $1.02 billion, up 8 percent from last year’s $946.9 million. Net income dipped to $72.5 million, compared to $73.3 million in Q306,…

Slate Prepping Business News Site For Next Year - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 31 Oct 2007 08:59 PM PST

Slate magazine is developing a business version of its general politics and culture site for a launch by next summer, NYO reports, and Reuters also confirms later. Though the creation…

Washington Post Acquires Lead Generator CourseAdvisor.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 11 Oct 2007 12:43 PM PST

The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has announced the acquisition of CourseAdvisor.com, an online lead generator serving the education industry. The Wakefield, MA.-based company matches up students with suitable degree…

@ AOP: Washingtonpost.com Eyeing European, Multi-Lingual Expansion - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 03 Oct 2007 02:09 AM PST

From our newest site paidContent:UK: The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) plans to do do more in Europe through washingtonpost.com, WPNI CEO Caroline Little told attendees today at the AOP…

Earnings: Washington Post Co. Q2 Profit, Revs Fall; Online Revs Gain 11 Percent In Q2 and H107 - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 03 Aug 2007 06:35 AM PST

Reflecting newspaper industry declines in print ads, as well as rising online revenues, The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) saw Q2 profits drop 12.6 percent to $68.8 million, or $7.19…

Weekend Reading: Washington Post: Turning The Net From Threat To Opportunity - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 27 Jul 2007 04:13 PM PST

Fortune’s Marc Gunther takes a good, long look at the Washington Post Co.’s efforts to move its flagship paper from print-centric to multiplatform—and the economics of the transition. The sense…

WaPo Tries Hyperlocalism, Aware Of The Pitfalls - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 16 Jul 2007 04:42 AM PST

The Washington Post is attempting to boost its metropolitan coverage, and more importantly, its readership, with a new hyperlocal adjunct, called LoudounExtra.com. While leaving the major news to the flagship,…

Earnings: Washington Post Co. 1Q Profit Falls 16 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 04 May 2007 06:48 AM PST

The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) 1Q net income was $64.4 million compared to last year’s $76.9, a 16 percent decline. Revenue rose 4 percent to $985.6 million. Looking at…

Leonsis Challenges Sports Coverage Status Quo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 03 May 2007 09:32 PM PST

A lesson in the economics of new media ... The Washington Post isn’t covering the World Championships of Hockey in Moscow but Ted Leonsis, AOL vice chairman and Washington Caps…

Updated: Industry Moves: Silberman Leaves Rodale For Nymag.com; WaPo’s Whitaker To NBC News - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 May 2007 09:57 AM PST

Updated: You’re reading it here first… online vet Michael Silberman is leaving Rodale Interactive, where he was VP and editorial director, to become GM of New York magazine’s nymag.com. He’ll…