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Cover Story

Failing geometry
September 5, 2012 12:00 AM
In 1830, a publisher named Lynde Walter launched a Boston paper called The Boston Evening Transcript. Transcript’s most important feature wasn’t its content or format, but its business model. A subscription cost only $4 a year, barely more... Continue reading
The Audit

WaPo must transform to survive
May 31, 2012 06:50 AM
Ryan Chittum's "The Washington Post Co.'s Self-Destructive Course" is a blistering attack on the paper's management of its journalistic mission and its economic viability. Chittum examines the financial structure of both the The Washington Post and its parent,... Continue reading

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