9/22/08: New Post Web section to send readers elsewhere
"The idea behind the Political Browser, expected to start Monday, is to brief political junkies on the top "must reads" of the day, from an article on a scandal to a humorous video making the rounds on Google Inc.'s YouTube. Encouraging readers to leave one's own Web site to find more content was unthinkable not long ago. But traditional news organizations including the Post have started breaking down their "walled garden" mentality in the past few years."
Associated Press
9/14/08: Folks Who Brought You Slate Build a Business Site for the Facebook Set
"Just as Slate has established itself over time as a respected online magazine, so does its parent, The Washington Post Company, hope that The Big Money can do the same for financial information... The Big Money aims to be something in between authoritative print sources of business news and the myriad of newly minted business blogs."
NY Times
9/14/08: Online magazine Slate starts business news site
"The online magazine Slate is launching a spinoff site on financial news Monday, bringing tools for business executives and investors alongside its traditional emphasis on analytical articles… Interactive tools will help readers incorporate charts into their business presentations and learn about social responsibility at leading corporations - their policies on the environment and gay and lesbian employees, for instance."
Associated Press
8/31/08: Behind-The-Scenes at "Largest Live Operation" on the Web
"What features distinguish it from the cablers and networks? For one, it doesn't have to worry about the balance of showing video of the speeches or providing commentary. With tabs, viewers can flip back and forth between what's going on live on the convention podium and what's being discussed during the show. Also, viewers can provide instant feedback about what they're seeing, and the producers can adjust accordingly."
TV Newser
8/28/08: Washington Post goes live via cell phone
"Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe was standing close to Hillary Clinton last night during Obama's nomination, and he streamed this clip live into WashingtonPost.com's webcast."
Lost Remote
8/22/08: Washington Post offers political convention coverage on mobile
"Washingtonpost.com and the mobile site at http://mobile.twp.com will bring users real-time video coverage of this year's conventions, bringing readers political news and information wherever they are. Users can get major convention news and political coverage on Twitter or get it sent to them directly via a daily email newsletter. The media giant will also send out text-message alerts providing links to breaking political news as stories are posted to Washingtonpost.com. Readers can share articles using Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Del.icio.us, email and SMS."
Mobile Marketer
4/7/2008: Washington Post Wins 6 Pulitzer Prizes
The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, the second-most any newspaper has won in a single year, including awards for reporting that helped define much of the national political dialogue last year.
NY Times
2/12/2008: Primary Coverage and a Green Valentine's Day
"You can check out the usual suspects... or you can set your clock for appointment viewing for 7 p.m. ET, when the Washington Post offers live online video coverage of the day of voting."
TV Week
2/5/2008: Super Tuesday: A Voter's Guide To Election Coverage on the Web
"The Post has a great map that illustrates the strategic significance of the various regions of the country to the candidates. It also has poll closing times, in case you haven't voted yet."
Wired
2/5/2008: WashingtonPost.com's live streaming coverage
"As the Post promised, the goal was to put breaking news in perspective... I applaud them for offering an alternative for their users."
Lost Remote
2/3/2008: Super Tuesday big online Pubs expanding focus on the Web
"On the night when some 50% of presidential primaries and caucuses occur, Newsweek and the Post will be putting their big editorial guns in front of webcams for six continuous hours of live coverage, which the BBC will simulcast to its stations around the world."
Variety
2/2/2008: Super Tuesday also 'webby'
"Added to the myriad news options on Super Tuesday will be a new entrant: live coverage streamed online from WashingtonPost.com and Newsweek."
Hollywood Reporter
2/1/2008: Multimedia components enhance journalists' abilities to present compelling stories online
"Some take a simple approach to digital storytelling and patch together the pieces, adding videos to blogs or slideshows to articles. Some newspaper Web sites, such as washingtonpost.com, have embraced complex multimedia presentations."
Newspaper Association of America
1/28/2008: Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks
"The Root's emphasis on genealogy will set it apart from those competitors..."
The New York Times
1/28/2008: The Root is planted: black opinion, news and culture
The Root is... "an ambitious new online magazine that focuses on African American culture, politics and genealogy. The site's design evokes one of the Root's principle themes: the exploration of African American ancestry."
Los Angeles Times
1/28/2008: Washington Post Launches 'The Root'
The Root features: "...commentary from leading black writers, along with information on genealogy."
AP
12/17/2007: SPECIAL REPORT: Political Bloggers at Newspaper Sites Help Drive 2008 Campaign Coverage?
"Then there's Chris Cillizza, a full-timer at The Washington Post's blog "The Fix." Among the first (since 2005) and best-known political bloggers..." When posting scoops great and small: "Cillizza's story that Pat Robertson had endorsed Rudy Giuliani made even his own newspaper's top political staff take a new look at the power of the site."
Editor & Publisher
9/17/2007: Newspapers are going 'widget'-happy
"For newspapers, widgets represent a huge new opportunity to draw in new readers and to boost their brands throughout the Internet. They're one of the fastest-growing trends on the Internet..."
AP
7/26/2007: Can the Washington Post survive?
"The Washington Post, a first-class newspaper that dominates its local market, has the best shot of any at reinventing journalism for the Internet."
Fortune
7/16/2007: How Local Can You Go?
"The Washington Post earned renown for breaking national- and world-shaking news..."
Forbes
7/16/2007: Going LoCo
Regarding LoudounExtra.com: "Key to the project, though, is data that Google can't reach.... how many other traditional news organisations are working on models for innovation like this?"
Financial Times "Tech Blog"
7/16/2007 : Washington Post goes 'hyperlocal' in Loudoun
"The new site, LoudounExtra.com...builds on the paper's reputation for successfully segmenting the paper to create advertising zones affordable to small local businesses."
San Francisco Chronicle
6/1/2007: In Production: Slate V
"Slate... plans to produce at least one new video a day for Slate V" and "Nissan's Infiniti has signed up to be the site's exclusive sponsor..."
Wall Street Journal
4/23/2007: As Environmentalism Grows, Online Publishers Go Green
"And The Post has been, bar none, the most innovative newspaper company when it comes to online."
The New York Times
2/17/2007: onBeing: Nice Take on Creating Community
Regarding OnBeing: "It's fun, it's interesting, it's interactive and it's community -- a great example of what multimedia journalism is all about."
Poynter.org
8/18/2006: Print journalists urged to explore online tools
As online journalism grows in importance, more print journalists are finding themselves in unfamiliar territory filled with terms such as podcasts and blogs.
NABJ News Blog - Indy 2006
8/7/2006: WAPO Online Revenue Soars 36%
..The Post's online ad revenues grew faster than some of its rivals. At The New York Times Co., for instance, online ad revenue for The New York Times Media Group, New England Media Group, and Regional Media Group grew 25 percent in the second quarter..
The Post Co., which owns Newsweek and online magazine Slate.com, has experimented with a variety of cutting-edge online initiative..."
MediaPost
08/2/2006: Washingtonpost.com Inks Deal with Inform
"We're always in search of innovative ways to engage users and lead them deeper into our quality content," said Caroline Little, CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.
London Telegraph
8/1/2006: Caroline Little, Arianna Huffington Keynote Panelists at BlogHer 06
BlogHer
7/1/2006: Caroline Little Leads Innovation Seminar at American Press Institute
American Press Institute
7/1/2006: Washingtonpost.com Video Docs Nominated for Two Emmys
"All of the nominees represent an expansion of the franchise of highly respected news organizations - but in most cases they are news organizations that are not primarily known for their television news and documentary coverage," said Peter Price, President/CEO of the National Television Academy. "This is indicative of the seismic change the television industry is going through, with the growth of the Internet, cellphones and portable media players as credible news and entertainment sources."
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
7/1/2006: Washingtonpost.com Congressional Votes Database Wins Knight Batten Award for Editorial Innovation
An interactive map displays this year's congressional and gubernatorial races. The map provides candidate profiles, background information, district demographics and links to campaign finance records.
Knight Batten Foundation
7/1/2006: Washingtonpost.com Comments on Articles "A Hit"
Editor & Publisher
7/1/2006: Post Global - An Experiment in Global Collaborative Journalism
The Washington Post Company and washingtonpost.com are continually engaged in product innovation -- using technology to redefine "news" as dynamic, conversational, contextual content which is networked with related content across the internet (especially the blogosphere, but also including their other properties, Slate and Newsweek), and linked with their other media properties
Chez Nadezdha
6/1/2006: Washingtonpost.com Wins Third Consecutive Edward R.Murrow Award
For the third successive year, washingtonpost.com has received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence for Non-Broadcast Affiliated Website. The award is given by the Radio and Television News Directors Association for excellence in broadcast journalism.
Yahoo Finance
6/1/2006: Washingtonpost.com and Technorati Partner on "Buzz Map"
Washingtonpost.com and the global blogosphere authority Technorati have partnered to launch a new dynamic feature that presents the most current blog posts about opinions published by a range of news sites and bloggers around the world.
Yahoo Finance
5/1/2006: Washingtonpost.com Wins Eppys
Washingtonpost.com picked up three Eppy awards at the Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas: Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated site, Best Internet Classified Service (for their Cars section) and Best Internet Community Service Effort (for their database of congressional votes going back to 1991
Mediabistro/Fishbowl DC
: Washingtonpost.com Launches Del.icio.us Tagging
Search Engine Journal
2/1/2006: Washingtonpost.com Wins Multiple Digital Edge Awards
Pushing the boundaries of a multimedia news site, washingtonpost.com is building a model of a newspaper Web site as an interactive forum. The site's breadth of coverage, video storytelling and embrace of blog culture and collaborative media make it a standout.
NAA
12/1/2005: Washingtonpost.com Extends Availability of Archives
WashingtonPost.com will now offer articles for free for 60 days, instead of the previous 14, before putting them behind the paid for subscription wall. The objective of the initiative is to increase traffic and advertising revenues.
It is also, according to Clickz News, "an acknowledgement of the role of blogs, search and RSS, which have all worked to keep news stories in the public eye for longer periods of time."
Editor's Weblog
12/1/2005: Washington Post Jumps into Open Content in A Big Way
Washingtonpost.com is the first major media outlet to employ the open content model more broadly.
Among the highlights:
They launched a web site called post/remix. Here they have a blogger posting what they're doing and linking to their resources. This will likelty serve as a gallery pointing to mashup examples they find. You can get lots of different feeds here, and I imaging they'll expose APIs here when they have them..
Matt McAlister