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Innovation Lessons From The Washington Post

The still-great paper's Chairman and CEO Donald Graham and Chief Digital Officer Vijay Ravindran speak with us about what WaPo Labs gets right. READ»

For-Profit College Stocks Soar As Watered-Down New Federal Rules Are Announced

It's a heartening example of government working for you--if "you" means a team of lobbyists. Shares of Apollo Group (Phoenix U), the Washington Post Co (Kaplan U), and other publicly traded for-profit colleges rose sharply yesterday ...READ»

Twitter Trends Driven Mostly by Mainstream Media

Forget Ashton Kutcher and Lady Gaga. On Twitter, mainstream media outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, and the BBC dominate trending topics. READ»

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Ongo, NYT-Backed Digital News Startup, Launches Today

The venture is headed up by Alex Kazim, former CEO of Skype. With an iPad app in the offing, does this represent a threat to Murdoch's Daily?READ»

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iFive: Seabed Leak Benign, the Afghanistan Conundrum, HP's Tablet Plans, FIFA Pauses on Goal-Line Tech, Cheney Lacking Pulse

While you were sleeping, innovation was getting angry that football's men in blazers seemed to be backtracking on their technology promise, but feeling somewhat mollified by the heartening news on the seabed leaks close to the ...READ»

Freeland's Washington Post Op-Ed Is Wrong: CSR Does Maximize Corporate Profitability

"The cult of corporate social responsibility" is one of the culprits in the BP oil spill, claims Chrsytia Freeland, global editor at large for Thomson Reuters, in her opinion piece in yesterday's Washington Post. How is that? Because, ...READ»

Washington Post Google Maps Tracking Rapist

The police and press, usually uneasy bedfellows (see the fifth season of The Wire), have turned to crowd-sourcing in an attempt to solve a series of rapes and assaults that has left authorities in four states baffled. It's probably ...READ»

Don't Hate the Mainstream Media, Hate the Game

If media comes from everywhere, and a citizen can be a contributor, then why do the journalism organizations putting media out there in an old-fashioned way act so fearful of potential partners in news production? How can ...READ»

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The Launch of Mediaite.com Further Blurs the Line Between Editorial and Advertising

The Washington Post's Salon Fallout and the Launch of Mediaite.com have brought attention to the blurring lines between "Church and State"READ»

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Visualizing the Economic Stimulus

The Washington Post recently created an essential visualization of the stimulus bill before Congress. Granted, it was created before the trimming that just occurred in the House, but it's illuminating nonetheless (see a portion ...READ»