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Don Graham warned VandeHei that leaving The Washington Post was catastrophic
“Don Graham and his leadership team calls us in and explains to us why it's a dumb idea for us to leave, and Don, who couldn't be a sweeter guy and a smart guy, turned to us and just said, I've never said this to anybody. You are making a catastrophic mistake.”
VandeHei: The Washington Post and WashingtonPost.com were separate companies in 2006
“Back then, the Washington Post and WashingtonPost.com were separate companies in separate buildings on two different sides of the Potomac.”
Washington Post offered VandeHei an internal venture called Post Politics
“What if we created a company inside the company and called it post politics? Don't do it there. Do it here. If you think the future's digital, build it out here.”
Tibbott put The Washington Post on hold for The New York Times.
“At one point, I had to put the Washington Post on hold to talk to the New York Times.”
Major Publishers Evaluated Apture Solely on Dwell Time and Ad Impressions
“We did deals with the Washington post, the New York times, the economist, and they would ask us one question, which was how much did you increase the amount of time people spent on my website? Okay. How many ad views impressions did you increase?”