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more about #marcusbrauchli more comments → DennyCrane: Somehow this felt appropriate. more » bess marvin, girl detective: attempting to do more with less. david simon is in a bawlmoor bar somewhere cackling. more » JennaW: They aren't? Well, they used to be! Great work, Marcus Brauchli! In just one year you've turned the Washington Post into a local paper. Ben Bradlee mu... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Sadz. more » Mike Jahn: Another step in saving the New York Times. more » TheBusinessGuy: How sad it is that he utterly misses the point of the service local bureaus render: that they provide another take, another perspective, another voic... more » belltolls: The Chatham House Rule, eh? Goodnight you princes of DC, you kings of the Mid-Atlantic. #washingtonpost more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Trial balloon: The public can offer journalists hookers and blow, cash and vacations, to win their loyalty. #washingtonpost more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: scruples. ethics. discuss. #washingtonpost more » applejuice: What's wrong with thise dudes pic on the main page? It shows up like it is the opposite of the coneheads pic. more » -
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Marcus Brauchli —
executive editor of the Washington Post explaining the newspaper's decision to close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, to the Washington Post. -
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New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
Revelations surfaced in July that pricey, shady, plainly unethical off-the-record dinners between Washington Post reporters and DC lobbyists were planned. It resulted in the firing of the WaPo's marketing director. Now, the NYT calls out their executive editor. SHOTS FIRED! More » -
#wallstreetjournal
WSJ Short On Copy Editors, Too
The good news for the Wall Street Journal's editors is that the above story was not moved in violation of its embargo — it ran just after midnight, as apparently required by the originating source. As the Silicon Alley Insider notes,that signals the Journal's adherence to a choreographed style of journalism recently-departed managing editor Marcus Brauchli opposed. The bad news: The fact that the story starts with "EMBARGOED!" signals that the Journal's copy editors are stretched quite thin this summer weekend (the LA Times feels your pain, WSJ). [Silicon Alley Insider] -
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#wallstreetjournal
Refreshed By Blood
Marcus Brauchli got screwed, as this virtual gift on the outgoing Journal managing editor's Facebook page so aptly depicts. With his departure goes any pretense that Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the business newspaper will be anything but brutal, and Wall Street Journal reporters are already gossiping about the likely casualties. But there will be winners as well as losers; some of them will even be deserving. Our list, after the jump. More » -
#rupertmurdoch
Old Man In A Hurry
Rupert Murdoch's 78th year has been busy. With the exit of the Wall Street Journal's native managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, the Australian media mogul's lieutenant now has a free hand to turn the business newspaper into a broader national title. We're hearing this afternoon that Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman has dropped out of the bidding for Newsday, clearing the way for Murdoch's News Corporation to take control of a third newspaper in the New York market. And the New York Post is this week shrinking to allow the News Corporation tabloid to be produced on the same presses as the Journal. But here's the question: why the rush? There are three main reasons: newspaper publishing economics; the broader synergies available to a media group with heightened political influence; and mortality. More »
