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On Wednesday,
the Washington Post
named the Economist’s Washington correspondent
Adam O’Neal as its next opinion editor.
In his announcement on Twitter, O’Neal parroted his new boss’ words from last February almost verbatim,
telling Post readers in a chummy front-facing camera announcement that:
[Washington Post opinion page writers and editors are] going to be stalwart advocates of free markets and personal liberties.
We’ll be unapologetically patri…

New Washington Post Opinion editor claims explicitly right-wing revamp isn’t ‘Ideological’
A breakdown of Bezos’ final coup and the bizarre pathology of right-wing ideologues really, really wanting you not to think they’re ideological.

Sources: BBC Breakfast editor Richard Frediani is taking an extended period of leave as the BBC conducts a review into workplace bullying and misconduct claims (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-breakfast-bullying-pwc-cons…

BBC Drafts In Consultant To Examine ‘Breakfast’ Bullying Allegations After Deadline Investigation
The BBC's HR team is working with an external PwC consultant to examine allegations of bullying and misconduct on flagship show, 'BBC Breakfast.

Truncation is not a #content strategy

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
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"Metaobject protocols: Why we want them and what else they can do"
Gregor Kiczales, J.Michael Ashley, Luis Rodriguez, Amin Vahdat, and Daniel G. Bobrow
Published in A. Paepcke, editor, Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective, pages 101  118.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.
" In more recentwork, wehave pushed the metaobject protocol idea in new directions, and wenow
believe that idea is not limited to its specific incarnation in CLOS,…

Microsofts Open-Source-Kommandozeileneditor bringt einige Verbesserungen
Microsofts Open-Source-Editor Edit für die Eingabeaufforderung hüpft auf Stand 1.2.0. Die Entwickler haben Verbesserungen eingebaut.

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, still earns profits from Substack subscriptions despite ceding editorial control of the Huckabee Post to his son (Dave Levinthal/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/huckabee-substack

Kathleen Kingsbury says she had been "imprecise" in saying NYT won't endorse local candidates and the Opinion section will no longer do "pro forma endorsements" (Bill Grueskin/Columbia Journalism Review)
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To Endorse, or Not to Endorse
NYT opinion editor says she was “imprecise” with her earlier ban. Plus: Loomer and Grok vs. the truth, DOGE’s real-world fallout, and the ill of the chase.

A look at The Atlantic's recent ~30-person hiring spree: about a third come from WaPo and, sources say, the magazine has been offering $200K to $300K salaries (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

The ‘A Team": Inside The Atlantic’s expensive hiring spree.
The Atlantic has been on a hiring spree this year, announcing the addition of roughly 30 editorial staffers since January — some of whom are making as much as $300,000 a year.

The Washington Post names Adam O'Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, as its new opinion editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-economists-oneal-to-become-washington-post…

The Economist's O'Neal to become Washington Post opinion editor - Talking Biz News
Adam O’Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been hired as opinion editor at The Washington Post. He has been at The Economist since September 2023. Before that, he was at The Dispatch as executive editor. Previously, O’Neal was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was an assistant op-ed […]