So in some ways we were the first big website to really embrace Facebook and if you go to our website now and you log on using the same log in you can see what everything your friends are doing about Washington Post without leaving our site. To me that’s kind of how so far all media is actually kind of you know being very reactive and kind of embracing change.

Ali: One last question.

Person: [IB] my question is about the foreign coverage as you mentioned between financial crisis most of the media organizations had to scale down some forum offices in [IB]. So [even] these [clause] results in relying more on some other organizations, even be the brand of Washington Post. Didn’t this make you rely on some news agencies or local news organizations? And about the decision making process of scaling down these foreign coverage or a foreign correspondence which areas are selected and how? The most problematic ones are remaining, remain and still continue working or how was the process?

Interviewee: You right I think with your correspondents we need to look to other organizations to supplement our reporting. We have a partnership with the Financial Times that allows us to use some of their content each day and which we provide some of our content that helps to expand our coverage to places where we are now intending to use them sometimes for news about Europe or Brussels or South East Asia or other places in Eastern Europe where our coverage isn’t as great. We do also rely on wire services more often. We need to alert wire services sometimes to fill that niche.

But with a staff as large as ours we’re still looking primarily to our correspondence to give them to be the [IB]. In making those decisions about [IB] where do you send correspondents and where you don’t. I can’t really jog just over it a year ago, in thinking it through I tried to talk to people and do some thinking about what the most important stories out there were and what they were going to be. And [IB] list right in the tier of the questions still unanswered of what was going to happen with Iran internally and externally. The urgent question of Afghanistan and Pakistan the broader question I think involved [IB] much more broadly what I call the [IB] question the question of whether the fall out from 9/11 is going to evolve into a world in which the sentiment of the Islamic is more or less [IB] against the United.

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