-- LA Times: Having operated without an ad sales head since February, the LA Times has appointed a new EVP and chief revenue officer, Scott McKibben. Marking new Times Publisher…

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When newspaper companies released their quarterly earnings for the past two years, the news tended to follow this arc: circ, print ad revenues tended to be down, while online kept…

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The cable industry has had a strong quarter all around, and the Washington Post’s (NYSE: WPO) cable unit was no exception, helping total group revenue moving upward… Company-wide revenue was…

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Newsweek, owned by The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO), is seeing more upheaval: Greg Osberg, president and publisher of the news weekly, will leave the magazine, and go back to…

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To integrate or not to integrate, that will be the biggest question facing Marcus Brauchli when he arrives at The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) as its new editor this September.…

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Enough trial balloons were floated for this not to be a surprise and yet the reality still has some bite: Marcus Brauchli, who left his post at managing editor of…

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-- Boston Globe Sale?: Speculation about the Boston Globe’s future as a New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) asset is about as persistent as YHOO-MSFT rumors. The latest from The…

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Despite protests to the contrary earlier this year, Leonard Downie Jr. is stepping down as executive editor Sept. 8 for a successor to be selected by still-new publisher Katharine Weymouth.…

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-- *Washington Post* Company: Chairman and CEO Donald Graham went inside for a successor to longtime CFO Jay Morse. Hal Jones will succeed Morse as SVP-finance and CFO of The…

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The reorganization continues at The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Co following the departure of Caroline Little as CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. The latest: the creation of The Slate…

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An interesting case study in WSJ today about Washington Post’s (NYSE: WPO) local site LoudounExtra.com, and its relative inability to gain an audience at the local level. It’s been nearly…

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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…

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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…

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-- 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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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