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The Washington Post To Create WPNYC, a New York-Based Design and Development Office:

The Washington Post is building a NYC-based Tech/Design unit. Why? No apparent good reason. 

Speculation: Either they’re planning on expanding their Markets/Business (difficult) or NYC (near-impossible) coverage or they’re planning to roll out web- or mobile-based tools as stand-alone products (or a product line) and are finding the ‘start-up community’ insufficient in the DC area to support, staff and publicize such an endeavor.

There is an additional alternative, but one I think truly unlikely, that they simply can’t find the quantity and quality of tech/design staff they need in the DC Metro Area. By my knowledge, this is impossible. The people are all there, the only difference I can think of is that tech people get paid less in NYC than DC, and that’s why I’m maintaining this as a remote possibility. 

WaPo has been increasingly becoming a local paper and political focus-publication. There’s unlikely to be a space in the market or industry for it to turn that around. So what’s the reasoning behind this?

NOTE: They aren’t moving into a new office, apparently they still are in the Slate office, thus this makes a whole lot more sense. Via.

EDIT: I’d forgotten that Trove is not part of the Bezos owned WaPo.

‘Dear Dylan’: The Wonkblog advice column for everything:

“In the future, basically the only criteria for names will be, ‘Will my son or daughter be the first Google hit for this name?’ and ‘Will I able to buy TheirFirstNameAndLastName.com?’”

I read that and laughed and laughed and laughed. 

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos:

The deal does not include the company’s headquarters on 15th St. NW in Washington (the building has been for sale since February), or Foreign Policy magazine, Slate.com, the Root.com, the WaPo Labs digital-development operation or Post-owned land along the Potomac River in Alexandria.