In another retrenchment, after closing its domestic bureaus in 2009, the Washington Post is eliminating even more offices – almost all of the bureaus it has to cover local news. While conservatives may have little love for the work of the Post, it is yet another disturbing sign for one of the nation’s most prominent papers.
The Post will maintain just two offices for local affairs, in Richmond and Annapolis. Local editor Vernon Loeb has promised “never” to close those offices, but time will tell.
I hate to see a news organization continue to hemorrhage but their inability to not be a cheerleader for Obama has caused most thinking people to ignore them.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBob Gibson, Executive Director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, discusses the future of journalism on the locally-produced interview program Politics Matters with host Jan Paynter (External Link
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"I think our journalism and our politics are changing at an ever-increasing rate. The rapid change in journalism is very unsettling to the business. They are finding new business models that can work for newspapers in the internet age. Radio and television are also cutting back as advertising has shifted. They have to find working business models. They’ve also started cooperating with non-profit groups, as the Daily Progress has done with the Charlottesville Tomorrow outfit. So I think new partnerships are going to change the way the media is covering the news and the way the platforms are for reporting the news."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAfter years of simultaneously tut-tutting bloggers for not having "credentials" while poaching local blog posts for reporting and ideas to report about, there's little sympathy here for letting another of these dinosaurs die from the new media.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Local editor Vernon Loeb" sounds like a bitter clinger, holding on to a bygone age. Time won't "tell" -- money will. Obama got the whole bitter clinger paradigm backwards.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe sooner they're gond for good, the better. I have zero sympathy for them.
The WaPo will go to any length to smear Republican politicians. There is literally nothing they won't do.
They were an absolute disgrace in successfully defeating Sen George Allen, then tried to do the same to now Gov McDonnell.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMight have been disturbed 40 years ago. As it stands now, we're just seeing a propaganda rag losing audience.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThanks for sharing, fantastic media blog. I'm honestly surprised that they are cutting more bureaus... I know online is becoming the way to get news, but it's disappointing.
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