Washington power hostess and journalist Sally Quinn has lost her Washington Post style section column after she used her prized real estate to respond to rumors about wedding drama in her high-profile family, the Washington City Paper is reporting. (more...)

Over the weekend, we teased Gabriel Sherman's The New Republic cover story on the flailing Washington Post -- fallen from grace and under the new management of publisher Katharine Weymouth and editor Marcus Brauchli. Now, the entire story is available online and it's exactly the extensive chronicle of dysfunction and mismanagement that we expected, beginning chiefly with WaPo's infamous salongate. (more...)

“The news about the news, for the most part, has stunk for some time: There's been cowardly and crappy decision-making in scary times; ethics, at times, have been mislaid; lousy things have found their way into print, and worthy things -- killed for unworthy reasons -- have not. I am not shocked that tempers boiled over, nor am I shocked that they boiled over between two people who know what has been happening, and care.”

It came to blows in the Washington Post offices late last week when feature editor Henry Allen and writer Manuel Roig-Franzia had it out over the quality of a story, all within view of Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli. Really, gentlemen -- in front of the boss? (more...)

Either not everybody at the Washington Post is on the same page about what "off the record" means exactly, or executive editor Marcus Brauchli is a liar: Did he or didn't he know that the advertised salons would be off the record? (more...)

"But she has never worked in a newsroom, a gap in her resume that may have contributed to her current problems." So reads David Carr's description of the Washington Post's "relatively new publisher" Katharine Weymouth in Saturday's print edition of The New York Times. It happens to be a description that could fit a whole lot of people in this new media world, though at the moment none are getting the blowback that Weymouth is over Salon-gate. (more...)