Time-Post 10-yr secret agreement to 'share' news

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E&P September 14, 2005 <br> <br>Swapping Scoops: Every Night the 'NY Times' and 'Wash Post' Exchange Front Pages for the Following Day <br>Leonard Downie, Jr. <br> <br>By Joe Strupp <br><br>...Welcome to life under the Washington Post-New York Times swap. As part of a secret arrangement formed more than 10 years ago, the Post and Times send each other copies of their next day's front pages every night. The sharing began as a courtesy between Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. and former Times Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld in the early 1990s and has continued ever since.<br><br>"It seemed logical..." Downie tells E&P. "It made sense to both of us to make it simpler for everybody." <br><br>Lelyveld, who left the Times in 2001, declined comment...<br><br>When the swap first began in the mid-'90s, each paper would fax copies of its Page One layout, Downie says, adding that he does not remember which paper proposed the idea first. In recent years, they have moved to electronic transmissions of the front pages, usually sent between 10:30 and 11 p.m... <br><br>"This is really a peer group of two," explains [associate editor Robert Kaiser, a former managing editor who has been at the Post since 1963]. The Los Angeles Times "has a place in it," he observes...<br> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001136170">www.editorandpublisher.co...1001136170</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

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So it's not like the story are that dramatically different <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>But it'll help control the press<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." <br>- CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. <br><br>"Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html">www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>