By Adam Pagnucco. From August 2018 through December 2019, I was a columnist at Bethesda Beat. They had a great team back then, including but not limited to Dan Schere,…
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Maryland Matters is Hiring
By Adam Pagnucco. Bethesda Beat is not the only news organization seeking new hires; so is Maryland Matters. The latter organization, co-founded by legendary reporter Josh Kurtz, is looking to…
Bethesda Beat is Hiring
By Adam Pagnucco. Bethesda Beat, MoCo’s online news publication of record, is hiring for the positions of Managing Editor and Education Reporter. I bet one of you, our readers, could…
WAMU Staff Forming a Union
By Adam Pagnucco. The content staff at WAMU has announced on Twitter that they are forming a union. Their petition to management is reprinted below. WAMU Union We, the undersigned…
By Adam Pagnucco. The disappearance of local media has been a worrisome trend around the nation for years. MoCo is not immune. In the last year, three local media outlets…
By Adam Pagnucco. MoCo’s most feared man, former Washington Post reporter Bill Turque, has left to terrorize hapless local politicians in Kansas City. In a rare moment of self-reflection, the…
Politicians Rejoice as Bill Turque Leaves
By Adam Pagnucco. The most feared person in MoCo politics is not an elected official. He’s not a union leader, a developer, a big contributor or even a blogger. He’s…
Washington Post Looking for Turque Successor
By Adam Pagnucco. The Washington Post has posted an employment ad seeking a successor to recently departed MoCo beat reporter Bill Turque. We will have much more to say about…
Governor Trump
By Adam Pagnucco. One of the reasons why Donald Trump was elected President is that he made things up out of thin air and the press, for the most part,…
By Adam Pagnucco. Legendary Maryland politics writer Josh Kurtz is raising money for a new independent media venture. He has partners and he has an angel investor, so this could…