Kenny Day

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Dominick Dunne (1925-2009)

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Legendary Vanity Fair correspondent Dominick Dunne succumbed to bladder cancer in his Manhattan home today. He was 83. An online tribute to Dunne has already been posted. Also included on [...]

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National Press Club Remembers Kennedy

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National Press Club: “Senator Edward M. Kennedy was a frequent guest at The National Press Club, and over the course of four decades became the individual who spoke here most [...]

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Senator Kennedy’s Death Comes One Year After Historic DNC Speech

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AgencySpy: Senator Ted Kennedy died exactly one year after he gave a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention in support of then Senator Barack Obama.

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1.5 Million Tweet March!

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Whoa! Remember going back to school and realizing that a friend got all “grown up” over vacation?! Well, hats off to hometown bloggers Ana Marie Cox and John Dickerson for [...]

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Slate: “Today’s Papers” Now Yesterday’s News

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Slate has retired their “Today’s Papers” feature, an early pioneer of news consolidation. Acknowledging that they “haven’t been doing the kind of aggregation most of our readers want”, they’ve introduced [...]

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<em>WaPo</em>‘s TV Week: Opt In Or You’re Out

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If you get the Sunday WaPo and want to continue receiving TV Week, the handy magazine-style program schedule, you’d better call 202-334-9335 fast! The TV Week “Opt-In” is a cost-saving [...]

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The Magazine Group Re-Brands, Adopts New Name

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Sometimes a nickname sticks. In this case, The Magazine Group has decided to adopt the informal “TMG” monicker after 28 years leading the custom publishing industry. “Our clients, employees, vendors [...]

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DC TV Vault – Watch. Listen. Learn.

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Quick DC media lesson. WTOP call letters were once used by a TV station (1950-1978) and are still being used by local radio station (1943-present). The all-news format went into [...]

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Twitter Count Friday

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Every Friday we bring you follower counts for a variety of Washington DC-based news organizations. Follow the Tweeter: National Geographic – 27,154 stats Politico – 17,983 stats CQ Politics – [...]

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Forecasting Future Freebie Failure?!

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The news from Cool Britannia that Rupert Murdoch’s News International would be shutting down the free daily London Paper on September 18 has a lot of people wondering on this [...]