In a letter to his new employees at The Washington Post, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wrote, “Journalism plays a critical role in a free society and The Washington Post—as the hometown paper of the capital city of the United States—is especially important.”
In your nubilous Tuesday media column: the WaPoCo's nervous about Kaplan, Seth Godin to reap more revenue from his followers, AARP Magazine is the king of all magazines, and a newspaper is bringing back a formerly scrapped section. Unheard of!
Slate blogger and pathological counterintuitionist Mickey Kaus is actually serious about challenging Barbara Boxer in the California Democratic primary. The deadline to file nomination papers is tomorrow, and he's been gathering signatures. Will Slate let him write as a candidate?
Don Graham, the Washington Post CEO, has joined Facebook's board of directors. Had he not been such a nice guy, he might have had the gig three years ago.
The rumors appear to be true: Newsweek will amputate up to one million copies from its 2.6 million circulation, according to Wall Street Journal sources, and no fewer than 500,000. There will be an unknown number of layoffs, announced Thursday, to be achieved through voluntary buyouts like the 111 from last spring.…
The Newsweek buyouts have happened and they're more extensive than originally predicted. Let us remember that a buyout is a far better fate than layoff. These fallen writers are in a better place now. A place with The Golden Girls and The Price Is Right. After the jump, a bit more about those who have left Newsweek…
Popularity among dentists doesn't count for anything anymore. Newsweek is planning to buyout an estimated 10 percent of its staff this spring. The actual number of Newsweek employees is kind of confusing, what with contract workers and random bureau chiefs. One writer guesses that about 40 people will take a deal and…
"What Happened at Duke," by Susannah Meadows and Evan Thomas, Newsweek, today:
