From Poynter:
A memo to staffers from Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron outlines some of the paper’s plans for the next year.
The news organization plans to hire “writers to author ‘verticals’ on a wide array of subjects,” Baron writes. “These blogs will both deepen our reporting in The Post’s traditional areas of concentration and broaden the range of subjects we cover.”
The Post also plans to get going on a site redesign, Baron says, and it will expand its Sunday magazine and “introduce a Sunday Style & Arts section that makes a forceful and elegant statement about our strengths in those areas.” It will further add a “breaking-news desk that will operate from 8 a.m. until midnight.”
Full memo:
To all:
As we put the final touches on the budget for 2014, I want to share our plans for a set of exciting initiatives. This will be a year of impressive investment in The Washington Post, with the primary goals of growth and digital transformation.
Recent announcements have offered a hint of what’s in the works.
We just announced that Adam Kushner, executive editor of the National Journal, will head a new digital initiative for online commentary and analysis. We now begin hiring for his team....MORE
