Top News:
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos — The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
Discussion:
Washington Post, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Buttry Diary, Variety, Wonkblog, Businessweek, NetNewsCheck Latest, BuzzMachine, The Wrap, Gawker, USA Today, JIMROMENESKO.COM, INMA, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post Company, Fortune, Bloomberg, Wonkblog, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Forbes, Forbes, New Yorker, @davidfrum, The Switch, Brave New World, Reuters, New Republic, @geneweingarten, Hit & Run, Deadline.com, The Huffington Post, @moorehn, @jeffjarvis, @corybe, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Mediaite, Guardian, Quartz, Betabeat, @brianstelter, @hblodget, @eddyelfenbein, @stephcliff, Gannett Blog, @stevenlevy, CNET, @jimbradysp, @stateofnova, Poynter, @learmonth, @dangillmor, The Next Web, GeekWire, TechCrunch, @marcambinder, @vivianschiller, @page88, @clarajeffery, @jbflint, @derekwillis, DealBook, @hofrench, @macloo, Wired, @stateofnova, @dankennedy_nu, @jeffjarvis, The New Yorker Blog, MinOnline, @nickbilton, ReadWrite, LA Biz Observed, @jenny8lee, FishbowlNY, ZDNet, Politico, @chanders, @megan, @fieldproducer, TIME, @sts10, @sts10, @chanders, @leenarao, @pkafka, AdAge, @davidfolkenflik, @mikiebarb, @jcstearns, FishbowlDC, VatorNews, SocialTimes, Slate, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, @ezraklein, Media & Entertainment, The New York Observer, paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable, One Man and His Blog, Digits, The Verge, New York Magazine, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, Electronista, The Dish, GalleyCat, Engadget and Hillicon Valley
RELATED:
Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase — To the employees of The Washington Post: — You'll have heard the news, and many of you will greet it with a degree of apprehension. When a single family owns a company for many decades, and when that family acts for all those decades in good faith …
Discussion:
New Republic, AllThingsD, Washington Post, MarketWatch, Slate, The Week, Guardian, TechCrunch, The Atlantic Online, Consumerist, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Forbes, @jayrosen_nyu, The Verge, GigaOM, TIME, The Drum, Radio & Television …, The Wrap, Business Insider, Reuters, Memex 1.1 and The Newspaper Guild
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Why the Sale of the Washington Post Seems So Significant — A moment that will define an era's upheaval in journalism. — In the photo above we see Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee walking out of the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington after their historic win in the legal battle over publishing the Pentagon Papers.
Discussion:
Reinventing the Newsroom, @jamesfallows, Crikey, AdAge, @sophblack, WWD Media Headlines, @sdkstl, @pkafka, FishbowlDC, Speakeasy, @dkthomp, Forbes, @dangillmor, @kvox, @jaredbkeller, @bobstep and GigaOM
David Carr / New York Times:
The Washington Post Reaches the End of the Graham Era — In late 2012, Donald E. Graham, the chairman and chief executive of The Washington Post Company, met with the paper's publisher, Katharine Weymouth, to look at the paper's future for the next three years. Their assessment troubled them.
Discussion:
Forbes, @anupkaphle, @curtisbeast, @1bobcohn and @brianstelter
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Jeff Bezos's landmark purchase of the Washington Post — We've now officially entered the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse—for good or ill — There must be a dozen serious, fascinating implications of the jaw-dropping news that the Graham family is selling the Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Discussion:
BuzzFeed, Forbes, @petersgoodman, @albertocairo, @nateschenkkan, @motokorich, @froomkin and @noamscheiber
John F. Harris / Politico:
What is Jeff Bezos thinking? — Within minutes of the news going public, I had an email from a recognizable byline at the Washington Post that captured my feelings exactly: “Holy. S**t.” — In the heyday of this singular American institution, those two words were the very phrase …
Discussion:
Gawker, @hale_a, @pkafka, @mlsif, @bensherwoodabc, @politico, Reuters, @jaycosttws, Business Insider and @politico
Katharine Weymouth / Washington Post:
Katharine Weymouth letter to Post readers — Dear readers: — This is a day that my family and I never expected to come. The Washington Post Company is selling the newspaper it has owned and nurtured for eight decades. — In addition to The Washington Post, the company …
Discussion:
Forbes, The Verge, @earljwilkinson, @aloraibi, @samsifton, The Wrap and Business Insider
Jack Shafer:
Jeff Bezos is an owner who knows how to deliver — As the American newspaper business began its red-ink slide in the late 2000s, I fully expected a billionaire to rescue the financially struggling Washington Post. But I never thought its savior would be Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who purchased the paper today for $250 million.
Discussion:
New Republic, Digits, Forbes, Business Insider, The Wrap and WordPress.com VIP
Emily Bell / Guardian:
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: a marriage of old media and new money — The Amazon billionaire's buy marks a fascinating transition as east coast influence passes to Silicon Valley entrepreneurialism — The sale of the Washington Post to Amazon founder and multibillionaire Jeff Bezos for $250m …
Discussion:
@paullewis, @matthewwells, @moorehn, Bloomberg, @emilybell, @ceciliamarie, CNET, Quartz, @rosental, Wonkblog, @benjaminjackson, @digiphile and New Republic
Washington Post:
Washington Post sale: Details of Bezos deal — The purchase of The Washington Post by Jeffrey P. Bezos ends 42 years in which The Post has been part of a publicly traded company, creates a small windfall for the company's shareholders and will leave the stewardship of the newspaper in the hands of a privately held firm.
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Graham, Bezos hashed out Washington Post deal in Sun Valley — (Reuters) - Donald Graham, the chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Co, started talking to Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos less than a month before cinching a $250 million deal to sell the flagship newspaper to the tech entrepreneur.
Donald Graham / Washington Post:
Letter from Donald Graham on sale of The Post
Discussion:
Business Insider, @jayrosen_nyu, @melissabell, @anneapplebaum, @froomkin and Quartz
Washington Post:
The Grahams: A family synonymous with The Post and with Washington
Discussion:
Poynter, @themarkberman and @ceciliakang
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Time Warner Cable: We'll End Blackout If We Can Offer CBS A La Carte — In a letter, TWC CEO Glenn Britt asks to resume negotiations immediately, and wants the network to stop blocking CBS.com content from its broadband customers. — Time Warner Cable's CEO Glenn Britt on Monday sent …
Discussion:
Deadline.com, Bloomberg, The Wrap, @samgustin, @edmundlee, @sherman4949, @peterlauria3, @wjcarter and Wall Street Journal
RELATED:
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The short story of Longreads, according to founder Mark Armstrong — Mark Armstrong, like many people in New York City, was a commuter — he commuted to Time Inc.'s midtown Manhattan offices from Cobble HIll, Brooklyn, and it was the tedium of the commute that led him to seek ways to keep himself busy when he was without Wi-Fi.
Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
3 groups say they topped Henry's bid for Globe — Three of the groups that lost out in the bidding for The Boston Globe say their offers were higher than Red Sox owner John W. Henry's winning $70 million bid — prompting them to question the New York Times Co.'s sales process.
Discussion:
Gawker, Boston Globe, The Huffington Post and Poynter
RELATED:
Tim McLaughlin / Reuters:
From Boston hero to goat, billionaire John Henry takes on Globe challenge
Discussion:
Newsonomics
Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — 
Energy Markets Reporter, London — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
