Washington Post Closes Bureaus
[Guest post by DRJ]
The Washington Post announced it will close its remaining U.S. bureaus by the end of the year and focus its coverage on Washington, D.C.:
“The Washington Post will close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago at the end of the year to save money and will focus news efforts on covering the nation’s capital.
Six correspondents are being offered jobs in Washington, while three news aides will be let go Dec. 31.
In a staff memo Tuesday, Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told workers that the paper needed to concentrate its “journalistic firepower” on its central mission of covering Washington, D.C.”
This makes sense from a cost-cutting perspective but it also cements the Washington Post as a local rather than a national newspaper. I guess the editors believe national readers will be interested enough in Washington, D.C., politics to read and subscribe. We’ll see.
— DRJ
OH how the mighty have fallen. My home town paper was once rich, powerful, and relevant but now its just a liberal rag read by fewer and fewer readers. Kinda sad actually.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY, enjoy your holiday
james conrad (633fbc) — 11/25/2009 @ 5:03 pmMarcus Brauchli is part of the problem. He was dopey enough to think Murdoch would let him run the WSJ, but cynical enough to snag a huge sum of hush money from Rupe to depart quietly. No matter that WaPo’s wreckage is spiraling down in smoke and flames, Brauchli’s comfy retirement is assured.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 11/25/2009 @ 6:27 pmIt’s appeal is becoming more selective.
Mitch (e40959) — 11/25/2009 @ 7:20 pmITS appeal, not IT’S.
Mitch (e40959) — 11/25/2009 @ 7:20 pmWell it’s not like there’s any thing going on in the three largest cities in the U.S. that would affect Washington or U.S. politics.
elissa (4a1d77) — 11/25/2009 @ 7:28 pmWaPo already reports as though there was little of interest across the Potomac; like most left-leaning organizations, it’s an echo chamber of like-minded individuals.
Rob (c7293d) — 11/25/2009 @ 7:43 pmIt’s always been their conceit that having outside coverage made them a grown up newspaper. I doubt anyone subscribed to the Post for this coverage and I doubt that anyone who is otherwise satisfied with the Post is going to cancel because they stop. And with the Internet, if people who want to know about LA will go to the LAT website (yes, that was written tongue in cheek).
steve sturm (3811cf) — 11/25/2009 @ 8:29 pmEventually, the WaPo will be reporting on what is in the pages of Newspeak, and vice versa.
AD - RtR/OS! (b005ed) — 11/25/2009 @ 8:57 pmWhen they shutter their offices in DC I will do a HAPPY DANCE!!! When the Post and its Salons and its LIES are FINALLY gone then a new day will dawn in the media…as long as LEFTISTS are running the major media Conservatives will ALWAYS have to campaign against the other politician and the LEFTIST media!
Jaded (018064) — 11/26/2009 @ 5:44 am