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Politics Daily Celebrates First Birthday at the National Press Club
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPolitics Daily just turned one year old! Melinda Henneberger, PD's editor in chief, treats early arrivals to a retelling of our online paper's "creation myth," and kicks off the evening's "civilogue." Religion reporter David Gibson, just back from Rome, speaks about the crisis facing the Catholic Church. Carl Cannon, PD's deputy editor, introduces the debate between PD columnists Peter Wehner and David Corn (moderated by military writer David Wood) on our prospects in Afghanistan. ...
Why Running a Newspaper Means Having to Say You're Sorry
By Linda Kulman - Politics DailyWashington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth's much-awaited apologia for the paper's planned off-the-record dinners at which paying lobbyists would be sitting in journalists' laps (or was it to have been the other way around?) came out in the Post recently with a whimper, not a bang. ...
What Katharine Weymouth Doesn't Know about Jurassic Journalism
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe controversy at the Washington Post over pay-to-play schmooze-fests between lobbyists and government officials and newsroom staff, all to be "facilitated" by publisher Katharine Weymouth at her home, is making me feel old. Like dinosaur old. (Though hopefully with a brain larger than a walnut.)Thing is, I'm not really that old – though a career in journalism ought to be measured in dog's years, with one year counting for seven in most any other profession.When I started out in radio in the late 1980s (that's not so long ago, really-is it?) we wrote on typewriters and brandished ...
Weymouth's Weak Apology to Wash Post Readers
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThe Washington Post's publisher and CEO, Katharine Weymouth, apologized in Sunday's paper for what she calls "a planned new venture that went off track.'' She's referring, of course, to the plan – scotched pronto once it was reported - to sell access to government officials and to her own newsroom staff at a series of small dinners in her home. The initial story, broken by Mike Allen in Politico, reported that the paper was trying to line up corporate sponsors who would pay big bucks to lobby officials and befriend reporters and editors right in the publisher's living room – at ...
Washington Post Rethinks Plan to Sell Access to the Powerful
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe Washington Post parent corporation's plan to solicit participants who would be charged between $25,000 and $250,000 for intimate gatherings attended by "Obama administration officials, members of Congress and Post journalists" is cancelled, Howie Kurtz, the paper's media reporter, writes. ...
Wash Post Needs an Independent Investigation into Pay-for-Play Dinners
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyIt's not easy to write when your mouth is hanging open and your eyes are spinning out of their sockets, but I'm going to give it a shot. Mike Allen of Politico has broken one heckuva shocking story, about Washington Post CEO and publisher Katharine Weymouth seeking to sell access to Obama administration officials and to her own reporters and editors, at "salons" in her home. In this economy and at this moment in the news industry, everyone knows that newspaper execs have got to get creative, but not like this. According to Allen's story, "For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is ...
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