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Washington Post And Bloomberg To Launch News Service

The Washington Post and Bloomberg are partnering to launch "The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News" which will provide content to newspapers, websites and other subscribers. The move comes a day after the Post ended its partnership with the Tribune's Los Angeles Times.

Washington Post Social Media Policy Faces Criticism

The Washington Post has sent a memo to its editors/journalists outlining the publication's social media policies. They don't leave too many options for what is actually allowed to take place on social networks. This is an issue that never really seems to go away, and is brought up every time a publication's social media policies are discovered.

Rumor: Google Working On New News Delivery Service

Sharon Waxman formerly of the New York Times and the Washington Post, and now writing for the Wrap says that she went to a party at Arianna Huffington's mansion and spoke with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Far from the idle chit chat about the weather, she claims that Schmidt told her about Google's plan to roll out a system in six months that would bring "high-quality news content" to users without them actually looking for it.

Washington Post Launches Political Database

The Washington Post has launched a new site called WhoRunsGov.com that consists of comprehensive profiles of people in politics and the government.Currently the site is focused on people involved in the government and politics on a national level but plans are in the works to expand it to include state officials, experts at think tanks and interest groups.

Washington Post Predicts Interactive Success

Silly name, but predictably intriguing, Predictify has made its way onto several major newspapers' and blogs' radar, and now onto their webpages. Washingtonpost.com is the latest to partner with the crowd-sourcing prediction platform, joining up with the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and ReadWriteWeb, among others.

Paid Ads In Google's "Search-within-Search" Feature Are Gone

Instead of garnering appreciation, Google's 'Search within Search' feature came under intense criticism since the day of its launch.

Old Media, Time To Find The Missing Link

There is an inherent competitiveness within the media industry, and any given entity goes about its business as though parallel organizations don’t exist – and throwing the competition a hyperlink is tantamount to endorsement. After all, if you sell shoes, you wouldn't willingly direct customers to another shoe store, would you?

Washingtonpost.com Launches FactChecker

The washingtonpost.com has introduced the "FactChecker," an interactive feature that will be part pf the Post's coverage of the 2008 presidential election on both the washingpost.com and in the newspaper.

Google, Washington Post Renew Ad Deal

Washington.Newsweek Interactive and Google announced today that they have renewed their agreement to deliver contextual ads and Google Web Search functionality to washingtonpost.com's Web pages.

Ad-Tech: 'Content is King! (Again?)' Keynote

Yesterday morning I attended the ad:tech 2007 keynote panel session entitled "Content is King!