Richard Pérez-Peña (July 2, 2009), "Pay-for-Chat Plan Falls Flat at Washington Post", The New York Times: "Postscript: Oct. 17, 2009 . . . Mr. Brauchli now says that he did indeed know that the dinners were being promoted as 'off the record' . . . "
Dan Kennedy (8 July 2009), "Selling out the Washington Post", The Guardian: "Perhaps the most shocking thing about Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth's misbegotten plan to sell access to her journalists at off-the-record dinners in her own home is that so many found it so shocking."
Andrew Beaujon, Richard Cohen Leaves the Washington Post, Washington Post (September 23, 2019): "In the years since he displayed a remarkable ability to survive at the paper despite ...frequently stepping in it with regard to race, like the time he wrote that 'People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children; or the time that he wrote sympathetically about the man who killed Trayvon Martin..."
Bill Green, ombudsman (April 19, 1981), "THE PLAYERS: It Wasn't a Game", The Washington Post: " 'I was blown away by the story,' Woodward said. . . . 'Jimmy' was created, lived and vanished in Woodward's shop. . . . Woodward supported the [Pulitzer] nomination strongly. . . .'I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story — fake and fraud that it is. It would be absurd for me [Woodward] or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.' "
