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For media, convention coverage is expensive but essential

For the economically challenged news industry, the calculation looks something like this: Seven days of coverage spread over two weeks. Thousands of reporters scrambling for a limited pool of stories. Enormous expenses. Limited viewer, reader and advertising upside.

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Washington Post editors back writer who made changes to story at subjects’ request

Should reporters let their sources see their stories before they’re published or aired? Some journalists think it helps make news reports more accurate. But most shun the practice, fearing that it could enable a source to demand changes that soften criticism or alter a story’s findings.

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Chris Hughes, once a new-media pioneer, makes bet on old media with New Republic

Chris Hughes’s first business venture worked out nicely. As a teenager, he helped start something called Facebook. Within four years, working mostly part-time, Hughes vaulted into the ranks of the stratospherically wealthy. He wasn’t quite 23 years old.

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Anderson Cooper’s carefully timed coming out announcement

Anderson Cooper very cautiously came out of the closet on TV’s Take Out the Trash Day in an e-mail to longtime pal/Daily Beast columnist-blogger Andrew Sullivan.

“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” Cooper said in the
e-mail, which Sullivan said he had Cooper’s permission to share with the world.

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‘Life’s a Tripp’: Bristol Palin, drawn like a moth to the fame

As you might assume, being Bristol Palin means a life of continued anguish and suffering. In her somnolent Lifetime reality show, “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp,” which premieres Tuesday night, we keep hearing about the painful glare of media attention that snapped on nearly four years ago when her ­values-preaching mother, Sarah Palin, ran for vice president on the Republican ticket just at the time a teenage Bristol was pregnant with a son. That glare never ended, mostly because Bristol keeps reaching to turn the switch back on.

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Donning sweaters and Snuggies to combat the office’s deep freeze in the heat of summer

Enough about the impending heat, the descending sweat, the summer oppression that allows you to hate the parts of your body you don’t even think about the rest of the year. (Crease of the knee, you dastardly skin fold!) Washingtonians are doomed to hand-wring over the rising thermometers of June because we seek clues regarding the battle plans of our sworn enemy, August.

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