"The Washington Post’s Web editor, James Brady, is prepared to merge his online newsroom with the Post’s main newspaper staff once incoming executive editor Marcus Brauchli takes over."

"Marcus Brauchli … [the] former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, will take over as the [Washington] Post’s executive editor in September, replacing Leonard Downie."

Adrian Monck wonders whether the emphasis on "hyperlocal" news is misplaced. Sociology 101 backs this up: not every geographically-bounded administrative unit is actually a "community".

"[Jim] Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post’s online division, said … that he would like to see a technology that could identify people who violate site standards—and if need be—automatically kick them off for good."

Caroline Little, CEO and Publisher of Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive — the Washington Post Company’s online arm — is resigning, according to several Web reports.

On in-text links to SEO landing pages on newspaper sites: A reader of online news is constantly distracted by all this blue-spatter spiderbait. It degrades the user experience. It offers no user value. It adds an unsavory layer of trickery to serious-mind

"Sate, the online news and opinion magazine owned by The Washington Post Co plans to join a bustling business news market with an analysis and commentary site expected to launch this summer."

"The scrum for control of the Washington Post’s future … shuffles back and forth across the Potomac River. Priest, Hull, and hundreds of other Post editorial types work downtown. Their dot-com associates, meanwhile, do their biz in … Arlington…"

"We’re not just geographically organizing the blogger content — we’re organizing the Post’s content. That’s because our system is designed to track geographically pretty much anything that outputs a feed. So building a map like this for another