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WTOP: End of an era: Ahead of move, WTOP’s call letters removed from DC building
WASHINGTON — It’s the end of an era. As WTOP prepares to leave its Northwest D.C. location for new digs in Chevy Chase, Maryland, crews on a crane scaled the station’s current HQ to carefully remove the station’s call letters Friday…
Washingtonian: What Happened to the Washington Post’s Election-Day Clout?
The Post could once make a local candidate's day. Not so much this year.
Washingtonian: The Most Lurid Trial in Recent Washington History Just Ended. You Probably Weren’t…
What we lose when gruesome crimes stop dominating headlines.
D.C. Policy Center: How big of a deal is Amazon HQ2 for the DC Metro Region?
On October 23, the Washingtonian published an alarmist article on what receiving Amazon HQ2 could mean for the region: a massive housing shortage.
Washington Post: Three D.C. writers started The Sports Capitol. NBC Sports Washington just hired…
Earlier this year, three veteran Washington sportswriters launched a subscription-based website with no venture capital funding, no outside backing and no idea whether it would succeed. Eight months later, their project will end, for a…
Aida Perry in Street Sense: Prejudice and bias of the news media covering crime in my neighborhood
I live two blocks from 11th and P streets NW, where a young woman was stabbed to death in September while jogging. This unfortunate incident might have been avoided if the media had given more coverage to the man who was stabbed in the area…
DCist: WaPo Editorial Board Endorsed Local Candidates. How Often Do People Listen To Them?
On Friday evening, the Washington Post editorial board published its local endorsements for the 2018 general election. Per usual, local politicos either cheered the newspaper's picks or expressed utter disgust with them—including some…
Washington Post: Man shot by security guard in lobby of Fox 5 TV station
A man who kicked his way through two plexiglass doors at the Fox 5 television station in Northwest Washington was shot and wounded by a security guard Monday afternoon, D.C. police said. Police identified the man as George Odemns, 38, and…
Washington Business Journal: WBJ taps local media vet as new publisher
Peter Abrahams, former publisher of DC magazine and a veteran of the local media scene, was named publisher and market president of the Washington Business Journal on Tuesday. Abrahams, 53, will take over Nov. 1 from James MacGregor, who…
City Paper: Mitch Ryals Named Loose Lips Reporter at City Paper
Mitch Ryals is driving clear across the country to become City Paper’s next Loose Lips reporter. He will begin in mid-October. He comes to us from the Pacific Northwest Inlander where he’s been a staff reporter since 2015, covering stories…
LaTrina Antoine: News site steps up to battle homicides in DC
Despite the District’s legalization of marijuana, an illegal weed is growing in Washington, DC. And instead of leaving users in a daze, it leaves fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives sitting on wooden seats in courtrooms…
David Aldridge on The Athletic: At home in D.C., covering the teams and city that I love
At around 8 years old, I had written some doggerel for a school assignment that passed as poetry: “the teacher is gone/the children hum/now we can all chew chewing gum.” (Who remembers things like that?) But one of my teachers liked it…
DCist: D.C. Loses Another Local News Outlet As DCW50 News At 10 Folds
DCW50 News at 10, a local news broadcast in Washington, is folding at the end of this month. The last broadcast will be on September 28, and all of the station's photographers and reporters will lose their jobs. NBC4's Mark Segraves was the…
When DC broadcasters move to the suburbs, what’s lost?
The Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center is moving to Maryland.
In Washington, DC, the seventh-largest media market in the country, WTOP is the king of commercial radio. But the FM broadcaster told Bethesda Magazine last month that it plans to…
John Kelly in The Post: Like father, like son: Channel 4’s Mark Segraves keeps the beat for local…
It was the 1960s, and the Washington Evening Star’s nightlife columnist John Segraves happened to be working at the precise instant that the typical newspaper music critic was morphing from someone like him — short hair, white shirt, jacket…
Six months in, The Sports Capitol says it’s benefited from a dynamic time in DC sports
It’s impossible to talk about The Sports Capitol, DC’s six-month-old subscription sports site, without talking about its shadow rival, The Athletic.
If you pay attention to sports in the United States, chances are you’ve seen a sports…
DC’s local reporters cannot hide their sports pride. Should they try harder?
Shomari Stone stopped jumping, readjusted his handheld microphone and stared into the camera.
“They want the cup,” he said, gesturing toward the sea of red jerseys behind him. “One more win! One more win!” The crowd followed his lead and…