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Washington Post Gets Yet More Bad News

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

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* New student sign-ups up 5 pct * Q1 rev down 7 pct to $972.5 mln * Kaplan rev down 11 pct to $553.4 mln...

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Tales Of A Phone Monkey: My Tour Of Duty At Sallie Mae

Dan Lybarger | Posted 01.30.2012

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A little over 20 years ago, if you had your lunch or dinner interrupted by a caller wanting you to fork over on your student loans, I may have been th...

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Washington Post Co. Has Yet Another Bleak Quarter

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 01.04.2012

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The Washington Post had its fourth straight quarter of declining revenue, announcing a $6.2 million loss for the third quarter of 2011 on Friday. ...

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Washington Post Profits Crater

Posted 10.05.2011

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The Washington Post reported a 50% drop in second quarter earnings on Friday, brought on by declining revenue from the company's Kaplan Higher Educati...

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Warren Buffett To Leave Washington Post Board

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is leaving the board of the Washington Post Co. Buffett, whose company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. o...

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Billionaire Buys Newsweek For $1

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE, 5:20 PM: The Washington Post Co. has now officially announced the sale of Newsweek to Sidney Harman. In a press release, both Post Co. Chair...

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Washington Post Co. Rejects Avenue Capital Group's Bid For Newsweek, Cites Ties To National Inquirer

Huffington Post | Lindsay Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Washington Post Company declined to sell Newsweek magazine to Avenue Capital Group because of the hedge fund's ties to American Media, Inc., the f...

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Washington Post Company Posts Profit, But Ad Revenue Keeps Falling

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The Washington Post Co. returned to a profit in the first quarter as declines in print advertising slowed and the company's cable TV ...

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Newsweek Sale: Washington Post Looking To Sell Newsweek

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — At a time when people don't want to wait a minute for information, let alone seven days, do newsweeklies have a future? If Newsweek d...

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Conservative Newsmax REJECTED In Newsweek Bid

nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Washington Post Company, which put the magazine up for sale in May after efforts to stem its financial losses failed, has rejected overtures from ...

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Washington Post Stock Jumps After Barron's Calls It 'Dirt Cheap'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEATTLE — Shares of magazine and newspaper publisher Washington Post Co. jumped Monday after an article in Barron's dubbed it "America's most un...

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Newsweek: Should Jon Meacham Get the Blame?

Michael Hastings | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I write this, we are 15 minutes away from seeing what bids have come in to buy Newsweek. So I did a bit of Googling to catch up on the press covera...

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Newsweek BOOTED Out Of Fancy New Offices

MediaWeek | Posted 05.25.2011

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Newsweek staffers, having suffered through layoffs and the struggle for the title's future, have to endure yet another loss: their new offices....

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Washington Post Profit QUADRUPLES

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The Washington Post Co. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit more than quadrupled, largely because of a big reduction in acc...

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Washington Post Company Reports $12.2 Million Profit

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The Washington Post Co. turned a profit in the second quarter, reversing a year-earlier loss as growth in its education and cable TV ...

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Which Of These Properties Brings WaPo The Most Money?

Washingtonian | Harry Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's official: The Washington Post Company now gets more than half of its revenues from teaching people how to take tests, not from providing them wit...

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