Washington Post Guild members  Lyndsey Layton, Joe Stephens and  Lena H. Sun  were named one of six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting at Harvard University.

The announcement was issued Friday (Jan. 29) by the Joan Shorenstein Center on…

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By Eric Wemple
Washington City Paper

It’s been a fun week for watchers of the Washington Post. First comes Gabriel Sherman’s story titled “Post Apocalypse” in The New Republic, a wonderful read powered by some of the best quotes I’ve ever seen…

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By  Don Graham
The chairman of the board for ‘The Washington Post’

Times change in the newspaper business; technologies and perceptions come and go. There is so little one can rely on.

Don Graham

But there is this: Every few years, a writer for…

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“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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“The ultimate measure of…

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With 2010 looming, it’s already time to look back at 2009 and enter our best work in the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild’s annual Front Page Awards.

These awards honor the best work of rank-and-file workers covered by a Guild contract. The work…

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Marcia Slacum Greene, 57, a tenacious Washington Post editor and reporter whose assignments included politics, housing and social services and who saw journalism as a way to humanize and illuminate the lives of the marginalized…

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