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After just a year on the job, it's hard to say that Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli hasn't made his presence known.

City Desk recently ran an item about how Street Sense, D.C.'s homeless newspaper, was one of the only local publications thriving during the recession. As a volunteer member of the board of directors of Street Sense, the piece made me cringe just a little bit, even though I get what reporter Chris Lewis was trying to say: more and more people are turning to jobs selling the paper, so circulation is up. But make no mistake, this has been an incredibly shaky year financially for Street Sense, just like every other non-profit in town. Grants and donations are down across the board, and the board has had to make difficult choices to keep the organization, which employs almost 100 area homeless men and women, afloat.

It really is a brave new world for daily newspapers. The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun announced today that they will share a certain amount of content, including both local Maryland news and national, international and feature stories. Post editor Marcus Brauchli and outgoing Sun editor Tim Franklin both put out glowing statements assessing the esteemed worth of the other paper and how this arrangement will be beneficial to their readers, but surely this is largely being done to save money. The announcement indicates that the two papers will not "usually" share exclusive stories, but it's not hard to imagine this agreement could eventually ruffle feathers across competing Metro sections. Then again, the Sun's ever-shrinking newsroom could probably use the help. Full press release is after the jump.

We understood why people were clamoring to buy last Wednesday's Washington Post, the one that declared that President-Elect Obama had made history. And sure, it made a certain amount of sense that D.C. residents started lining up at CVS that evening to snag a copy of the special $1.50 commemorative edition that came out later in the day, after the regular paper completely sold out. This was a huge moment in the history of this country, and even if the Washington Post ended up going with a pretty boring design for its cover, this is still the major paper of Washington, D.C., the center of American politics.

It's been virtually impossible to pick up a paper copy of the Washington Post today (or any other major paper, for that matter), but Editor & Publisher reports that a special edition should hit the stands around 3 p.m. The special election edition, of which there will be at least 150,000 copies, will cost $1.50, $1 more than the regular newsstand price. Lots of other papers around the country are printing extra copies, too. If only Obama could win the presidency every day, every newspaper publisher must be thinking right now.

           

Finding a newspaper by 9 a.m. this morning was a more difficult task than getting out of bed for the long trudge into work. But while trying to obtain a tangible piece of paper journalism for posterity might have been a futile task, your second best option is the Newseum's humongous online collection - 682 of this morning's front pages, all accessible from the comfort of your desk (or, depending on how late you were out, your couch). The site's moving a little slow with all the post-election traffic this afternoon, so we've highlighted a number of local papers - ranging in scope from large to small - for your perusal. You won't even have to put slippers on or grab some spare change this way.

It's something that's been a Washingtonian issue since way back in 2005, but one which has never gotten resolved: if you don't want the Examiner delivered to your home, how do you stop it? Recently, members from the Cleveland Park listserv have taken up the task of trying to figure out exactly how to cease the unwanted circulation of the ubiquitous free daily, claiming that the paper is overly wasteful and an easy indicator of who is on extended vacations in the neighborhood.