Erik Wemple has been doing journalism for and about Washington for more than two decades. He started out covering export controls, with an emphasis on the Commerce Department’s long-since-renamed ...

Erik Wemple, newly appointed editor of the Village Voice, visited the paper’s staff on Monday, explaining his philosophy for running a newspaper and laying down a few rules. Get out in the streets, he ...

The bike-lane editorial was written by Erik Wemple, who has reported on the news media for the Post’s opinion section since 2011. He and others—the Post wouldn’t tell me their names—will write ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington Post spiked a column by its media critic about Jeff Bezos’ decision to reshape the newspaper’s Editorial pages, ...

Erik Wemple is the editor of Washington City Paper, as well as the paper’s media critic. Previously, he was the Washington correspondent for Inside.com and CableWorld magazine, as well as City Paper‘s ...

Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple offered a mea culpa for not defending ex-New York Times opinion editor James Bennet amid the uproar over the now-infamous Tom Cotton op-ed. Bennet recently ...

The former sheriff would be "murdered" if he were imprisoned, says Doug Wead.

Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry Erik Wemple has been doing journalism for and about Washington for more than two decades. He started out covering ...

The cross-cutting issue of the Trump presidency needs to move to center stage.

It's a lesson that all those who serve as Trump's communications director will learn: They don't set any tones.