katharine weymouth

It's becoming increasingly, dismayingly clear that The Washington Post (WPO) made a mistake when it hired Marcus Brauchli to be its executive editor. Brauchli came into the Post job a little more than a year ago with a big strike against him: As managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, he had...

There's no question journalistic principles are under constant assault as media organizations seek novel responses to unprecedented economic pressures. But it's possible the self-appointed guardians of journalistic ethics have their outrage meters set a hair too high. Just look at the feeding...