Photo Gallery Print Under Pressure
In a SPIEGEL interview, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli discusses the global media crisis, the death of the "paper of record" and the iPad hype. He argues there is still a bright future for the kind of quality journalism his newspaper made famous through its 1960s breaking of the Watergate story.
Like many others in the US media, the Washington Post has been losing money.
Foto: Manuel Balce Ceneta/ AP
Last week, the Washington Post announced that it would sell Newsweek.
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Brauchli at a Washington Post editorial board question and answer session with Barack Obama in January 2009, just prior to his inauguration as president.
Foto: BILL O'LEARY/ AFP
An Apple iPad in action: With regard to the iPhone and the iPad, Brauchli believes that "as a matter of principle, if we're going to create and tailor our content specifically to a platform that somebody wants to carry with him or that offers greater convenience, it may make sense to charge for that."
Foto: Ben Margot/ AP
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