Outside the Beltway

Once dominant atop the smartphone market, Blackberry seems to be counting out the days until its demise.

Managers want their employees to get off email and pick up the phone.

A lot of new jobs are being advertised but not many people are being hired to fill them. Peter Orszag doesn’t know why.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

A business move that signals the continuing death of the newspaper industry.

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

Every piece of mail you send and receive is being logged by the Postal Service.

Even the national sport is arousing the anger of the protesters in Brazil.

Have we all been fooled by a 75 year old marketing campaign?

Jean Stapleton, an accomplished stage and screen actress who achieved entertainment immortality playing opposite Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith, has died at the age of 90:

Virginia’s voters really don’t seem to like their choices for Governor.

The Virginia GOP’s nominee for Lt. Governor could pose a problem for the party.

Critics are assailing Disney for turning “Brave” protagonist Merida into just another princess.

POLITICO is joining the stampede toward metered paywalls. In a twist, it will remain free in regions where it’s most popular.

John McCain is taking a break from advocating yet another war in the Middle East to make war against cable television companies.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

The days of free news on the Internet may be coming to an end.

At nearly $4 million for a 30 second spot, advertising on the Super Bowl is a bargain.

I have over the years been both editor and edited; currently, I’m both, often in the same day. Some thoughts on the relationship.

The Weekly Standard is proud that Mitt Romney’s intentionally false Jeep ad was technically true.

Monday, The Atlantic published and took down a sponsored article from the church of Scientology. Yesterday, it admitted it had “screwed up.”

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

The Exorcism of Arizona Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

In a show of marketing savvy that put Detroit where it is, Lincoln is rebranding itself as Lincoln.

Naturally, most of us are asking: What does this mean for next Tuesday’s election.

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Newsweek is joining US News in getting out of the printed magazine business, leaving Time as the last old American newsweekly standing.

Mitt Romney has gotten a bump in the polls from Wednesday debate, but it’s still too early to say if it means anything.

Mitt Romney won the debate last night, but it’s not at all clear that this will matter at all.

It’s still possible for Mitt Romney to win this election, but is it probable?