I’ve been slow to post lately - there’s been a lot going on. The Spec is happy to welcome Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. to Low Library Saturday night for our annual Blue Pencil lecture event. Mr. Downie, long-time top dog at the Post, will speak at 8:30 p.m. He’ll describe his views on the journalism industry and talk about diversity in a newsroom, the war in Iraq, and top stories making the news cycle. Semi-formal attire is requested.

Today, before pdf-ing Tuesday’s paper (at 3:15 if you’re keeping track - not bad, not record-setting) and what I think is our best front page yet, we drew the winner of our online readership survey (running since late last semester) and we are happy to report the winner is John Gardner, CC ‘08. He wins the iPod Touch, but we’re grateful to everyone who filled out the survey.

All the many hundred responses were informative and helpful for both the business and editorial sides of the organization. For example, among the many questions we purposefully had asked our readers to consider the relationship between Bwog and Spec.

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