Ombudsman Blog: June 7, 2009 - June 13, 2009

New Competition for The Post: Niche Players

My Sunday column will look at concerns among Post staffers that quality will suffer as The Post enters a critical period of major internal changes. Beginning this month and extending at least through the end of the year, the staff...

By Andy Alexander  | June 12, 2009; 12:34 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
 
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Closing the Gender Gap Among Post Columnists

An internal Post staff note this week announced that general assignment reporter Petula Dvorak, a veteran of nearly ten years at the paper, will be a new Metro columnist. It went on to mention her somewhat unusual reporting resume: Orange...

By Andy Alexander  | June 11, 2009; 1:04 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
 
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How "Swann Street" Could Have Been Handled Online

Readers are still reacting – most negatively – to The Post’s decision to force readers to go online if they wanted to read last week’s “Murder on Swann Street” two-part narrative. As noted in my Sunday column and several blog...

By Andy Alexander  | June 9, 2009; 4:49 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
 
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One Paper Tries a Print-Only Experiment

Readers reacting to my Sunday column were overwhelmingly opposed to The Post’s decision to offer last week’s “Murder on Swann Street” series only online. The column explained the rationale of Post editors in promoting the two-part narrative in the newspaper,...

By Andy Alexander  | June 8, 2009; 4:37 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
 
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