Washington Post
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Here's the difference between the Washington Post's U.S. and regional homepages
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After years of frustrating its online readers, The Washington Post today unveiled a groundbreaking redesign of its website's homepage that sets the new standard for all newspaper sites, the New York Times included. Actually, no, they just added a tiny button that doesn't do much at all.
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Media Monday: Which paper had the blackest Friday?
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A slow Thanksgiving week means a slow Media Monday. So I've decided to search the websites of D.C. media outlets for the phrase "Black Friday" in articles published in November. The winner won't surprise you.
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Celebritologyology: How Jen Chaney's blog rules the Washington Post
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How Jen Chaney's blog became one of the Washington Post's premier online properties.
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Media Mondays: Associated Press' Christopher Walken story proves why their Twitter policy is foolish
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If only the Associated Press had turned to Twitter before publishing an erroneous story about Christopher Walken discussing Natalie Wood's death on D.C.'s ESPN 980.
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Male D.C. journos get in Twitter fight over Post trend story about Ann Taylor
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A Post trend story about the clothing store's popularity with D.C. women sparked one hell of a tweetspat today among several local journalists, all men.
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The situation with swag and the White House and a look at the Dover Mortuary scandal
CommentPresident Obama has signed an executive order to cut the swag budget for federal agencies. Plus, a look at what happened to the whistleblowers who reported the Dover Mortuary scandal.
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Media Mondays: Aaron Morrissey is burned out, and in demand
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A week ago today, DCist editor-in-chief Aaron Morrissey announced he's stepping down at the end of this month. He spoke with TBD about his reasons for leaving, and responded to news that he's been offered a job by one of DCist's mainstream-media competitors.
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Feds get involved in the Occupy DC protests and one man tries to change the education system for the better
CommentSome federal workers are standing up with the Occupy movement. Also, one man went from dropout to diploma and he wants to fix America's education system.
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Capital Insider: Fact checking the President's jobs plan and new technology that prevents against ID theft
CommentTechnology that prevents identity theft and a closer look at the President's jobs plan and if the promises really match up to the reality.
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The ledes of the Occupied Washington Post, graded
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The October 2011 occupation in Freedom Plaza has published a newspaper, and yes, it actually consists of ink printed on paper. Here's our evaluation of what the ink says.
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TSA screener fired after inappropriate note left in passenger's luggage
CommentA TSA employee gets fired for allegedly leaving a scandlous note in a passenger's bag.
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Media Mondays: A defense of Gene Weingarten and all cantankerous old fuds
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In a column last week, Gene Weingarten hilariously skewered the Online News Association's recent convention with joke about pictures of bacon taped to cats. The digerati responded exactly as he'd hoped: by taking him too seriously.
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Media Mondays: The Daily Caller refuses to get it right
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The Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle still doesn't realize that October 2011 and Occupy DC are separate groups. Or he just refuses to admit when he's wrong.
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Style: Parenthetical puns — parapuns? — must end!
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Please don't force me to report out this linguistic quirk.
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Media roundup: WaPo columnist waits an eternity for the electrician
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I'm usually quick to defend a writer's prerogative to write whatever he or she pleases. But then I read something like John Kelly's Sunday column in the Post, and I wonder if we should take our readers' criticisms to heart. Also: Politico plagiarism, trusting unprofitable journalists, and the most egregious sentence of the week.
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Poker gains popularity amongst young males, reporter just discovers
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Surprisingly, we did not write this story in 2003 and just republish it. However, this phenomenon seems to have just reached one Washington Post reporter.
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David Alpert demands to know why no one aggregated David Alpert
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The editor-in-chief of Greater Greater Washington broke the news yesterday that there won't be streetcar tracks on the 11th Street Bridge. He felt that this was a big, important story, and he could not understand, when he woke up this morning, why only one local news site picked up on it. Then he threw a tantrum on Twitter.
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The President's tax plan means federal workers will pay more into their retirement funds
CommentIt's not just the super rich who will pay for the President's job creation plan. Federal workers will have to pay more into their retirement plans starting in 2013. Joe Davidson tells us how feds and the unions that represent them are reacting to the proposal.
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