Another One Bites The Dust: Washington Post Closes L.A. Office
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By Dennis Romero in City News, community, media
Tue., Nov. 24 2009 @ 4:39PM
In yet another sign of the print media meltdown the venerable
Washington Post newspaper on Tuesday announce it's closing its Los
Angeles bureau along with its outposts in Chicago and New York.
Some of the Posts top journalists (John Pomfret being one) made career
stops at the L.A. bureau, and it provided a voice for Los Angeles
because it is a must-read paper among the government's power elite.
But no more.
Reuters reports that the money-losing paper needs to re-energize its
focus on D.C. politics and news. The Post also recently laid off some
employees of its website and has already gone through a few rounds of
layoffs -- like a lot of big-city papers.
"At a time of limited resources and increased competitive pressure,
it's necessary to concentrate our journalistic firepower on our
central mission of covering Washington and the news, trends and ideas
that shape both the region and the countries politics, policies and
government," editor Marcus Brauchli told his staff in a memo obtained
by Reuters.
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> http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/community/another-one-bites-the-dus...
Wonderful, 40 years ago it was called "Potomac Pravda". A shitty rag
expousing
socialist and multicultural bullshit.
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