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5/22/2013, 8:44 AM ET

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Friday, May 3, 8:50 AM Washington Post (WPO): Q1 EPS of $0.82. Revenue of $959.1M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Monday, April 8, 7:23 AM The newspaper industry registered its first gain in circulation revenue since 2003 as digital subscriptions start to make up for sharp losses with print subscriptions. Despite the positive trend with circulation, overall revenue for daily newspapers fell 2% to $38.6B last year with digital ad formats unable to make up for lost print ads. Comment! [Consumer]
Monday, March 18, 2:47 PM The Washington Post (WPO -0.6%) plans to charge frequent users of its website a monthly fee to view content. The move follows in the footsteps of heavyweight publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, and New York Times which have been successful with the paywall model to a degree. 3 Comments [Consumer]
Friday, February 22, 8:54 AM Washington Post (WPO): Q4 EPS of $10.61. Revenue of $1.05B misses by $30M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Sunday, February 3, 4:04 AM As with the NYT, Bloomberg and WSJ (NWS), the Washington Post (WPO) has reportedly been the victim of hacking from China, which has been targeting the newspaper for four years. Twitter has also experienced a recent cyber-attack, with intruders stealing information from up to 250,000 accounts. Away from the online warfare, the Post is considering selling its HQ and relocating to a more efficient building. 2 Comments [Consumer, Tech]
Sunday, January 27, 4:06 AM Wheat inventories on May 31, just prior to the harvest, will total 742M bushels, Allendale forecasts, with the figure 3.6% higher than the USDA's prediction. The firm also reckons output in the 2013/2014 season will slip 2.5% to 2.21B bushels and farmers will increase the amount of acreage plant by 1.4%, but yields will decline 2.4% to 45.2 bushels an acre. (See corn inventories) Comment! [Commodities]
Friday, December 7, 2012, 4:27 PM Washington Post (WPO) declares accelerated FY13 dividend of $9.80/share. Forward yield 2.65%. For shareholders of record Dec. 17. Payable Dec. 27. Ex-div date Dec. 13. (PR) 1 Comment [Dividends]
Friday, December 7, 2012, 4:12 PM The Washington Post (WPO) becomes the latest to accelerate dividend payments, announcing all of 2013's scheduled $9.80/share to be payable on Dec. 27. (PR) Comment! [Consumer, Breaking News]
Thursday, December 6, 2012, 5:15 PM The Washington Post (WPO), one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, likely will launch a paywall in 2013, WSJ reports. In the wake of the New York Times' (NYT) successful implementation almost two years ago of a metered paywall, many other newspapers have followed suit or made plans to do so. Comment! [Consumer]
Friday, November 2, 2012, 8:38 AM Washington Post (WPO): Q3 EPS of $6.79. Revenue of $1.01B (flat% Y/Y). (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Monday, October 1, 2012, 10:50 AM Washington Post (WPO +0.5%) announces it will purchase a majority interest in healthcare provider Celtic Healthcare for an undisclosed amount. CEO Donald Graham says the move fits the company's "decentralized operating philosophy" to find companies with strong earnings potential. Comment! [Consumer, M&A]
Thursday, September 13, 2012, 1:28 PM Washington Post (WPO) declares $2.45/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 2.79%. For shareholders of record Oct 22. Payable Nov 02. Ex-div date Oct 18. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 9:39 AM For-profit educators tumble at the open following DeVry's (DV -27.4%) downbeat forecast: APOL -4.5%, ESI -5.8%, STRA -6.7%, CECO -3.1%, COCO -2.8%, LOPE -2.9%, EDMC -1.9%, BPI -2.6%, WPO -2%. Comment! [Consumer, On the Move]
Friday, July 13, 2012, 9:09 AM As part of the recent sale of Digg, a once-high-flying news-sharing site that was blown away by Facebook and Twitter, the Washington Post (WPO) reportedly ended up buying Digg's team for $12M (previous), and LinkedIn (LNKD) bought 15 of the company's patents for $3.75M-$4M. The site itself went to privately-owned Betaworks for $500K-$725K. Google hired Digg founder Kevin Rose in March. 2 Comments [Tech, M&A, Consumer]
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 7:07 AM In a disturbing trend for newspapers hoping to see online advertising make up for eroding print advertising revenue, sales of digital ads fell 1% Y/Y in Q1. Advertising exchanges where buyers can find cut-rate prices are contributing to the slide, with titans New York Times (NYT) and Washington Post (WPO) two of the hardest hit companies by the trend. Comment! [Consumer]
Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 1:27 PM Maybe Facebook (FB) won't prove a major boon for newspapers after all: AppData reports the Washington Post (WPO) and The Guardian have each seen dramatic falls in monthly users for their Facebook "social reader" apps, following news feed changes. Peter Kafka is pleased. "I don’t need to automatically know what my friends are reading — I only want to know about the articles they want me to read." Many users might not be crazy about sharing all of their reading activity either. 2 Comments [Tech, Consumer]