Washington Post
publisher Katharine Weymouth made the expected
official on July 7, naming
former Wall Street Journal managing
editor Marcus Brauchli the Post's
executive editor effective September 8. Brauchli, 47, is not a choice from the
inside, as was previous Post executive
editor Len Downie, but he is a signal that
Also in the media
glare:
Conde Nast shutters Golf for Women after its editor resigns.
Two top Los Angeles
Times reporters leave
for ProPublica, which recently responded to
criticism of its partnership with 60 Minutes.
Howard Wolfson, former top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), joins Fox News as an analyst.
Bill O'Reilly accuses The New York Times of “starting it,” by running caricatured images of him first. New Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson also slams the Times, calling its content “news with a skew. Or a skew with news.”