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The News Hub, with the Bradlee Story Conference Room in the background.

active, impressively large newsroom, and the employees see their specialized group of editors, digital team leaders, and other key
work being broadcast to the world. players constantly monitors two dozen screens and several crawls,
The two floors that constitute the newsroom, housing some 950 keeping tabs on both news from around the world and digital
Post reporters, editors, and (equally crucially) IT support, have a analytics of Post stories.
core of spaces, some double-height, which literally and figuratively The wall beside the stairway has graphics of famous Post front
connect the floors. Occupying the geometric center of the building pages from the past, including the one bearing the dramatic
is the glass-enclosed Bradlee Story Conference Room, named for headline “NIXON RESIGNS.” The wall behind the lounge area
longtime editor Ben Bradlee. It is flanked by three double-height has, in similar format, a permanent display of the names of Post
spaces. One is a pre- and post-meeting informal social area that employees who have won Pulitzer prizes (with plenty of room to
also serves as a waiting room for special guests; another contains a expand—the Post is not resting on its laurels!). Above this Wall of
broad open stair connecting the two levels. The third, called the Fame is a Ben Bradlee quotation: “The truth, no matter how bad, is
News Hub, is the nerve center of the news operation, where a never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.” The other sides of the

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