• The education division accounted for 52 percent of the Company’s consolidated revenues in 2008.
• Kaplan made 9 acquisitions in 2008; 9 in 2007 and 11 in 2006.
• The Washington Post had a 17% decline in print advertising revenue in 2008 and a…

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By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post
WASHINGTON – Washington Post Co. earnings fell 77 percent in the fourth quarter of last year compared with the same period in 2007, as large impairment charges drove down net income.

The Post Co. yesterday reported fourth-quarter net…

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By Erik Wemple
Washington City Paper
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post is undergoing a remarkable shrinking act, with some sections folding and others taking on more complicated identities. Making it all happen will require some tweaks to the paper’s design. The paper’s Web…

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The Post plans to create a “Community Journalist” position.

The starting salary for the job would be $34,000 a year. They could write for the extras, the web and the Daily. It is a new position, they say.

We say this sounds a…

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By Walter Isaacson
Time Magazine
During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations…

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By Erik Wemple
City Paper
WASHINGTON — The belt keeps tightening around the newsroom budget of the Washington Post. Following a stretch that featured the killing of the Sunday Source and Book World, newsroom administration on Tuesday announced perhaps a bigger no-brainer: Staffers…

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