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 Weymouth is planning
to shake up the newspaper's status quo, says The New York Times' Richard Perez-Pena. Expect Brauchli, adds the New York Observer's John Koblin,
to quickly tell
staffers how he plans to fix the newspaper's print-online divide and
“acknowledge that he's never stepped foot in Washington other than for fancy dinners at
the Ritz-Carlton.” Jack Shafer advises Brauchli, who began his career taking
“animal of the week” photos, donate his Journal
payout, then merge the Post's print
and online staffs. Editor & Publisher's
Joe Strupp notes
that the choice will define Weymouth's
tenure, since the last two Post
executive editors stayed on the masthead for 43 years.
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.”