The Story of PostWatch

PostWatch, a blog critiquing the Washington Post and other media follies, originally operated for little more than a year, from February, 2002 through April, 2003. There were a few scattered posts after that but nothing sustained. My nom de cyber was Christopher Rake. I'll soon be operating it under my own name, and I plan to add some original reporting along with the media criticism that several dozens of you came to know and love. Okay, so it's a short story. The original blog is here.

UPDATE, JUNE 22: Now the slightly longer story can be told:

PostWatch is owned and operated by Christopher Fotos, a veteran commercial aviation journalist. It is the revival of a blog that I ran, primarily during February, 2002 through April, 2003, under the pseudonym Christopher Rake.

I spent most of  my career with McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week Group, including eleven years from typist to reporter at Aviation Week & Space Technology, two years as a government affairs reporter with Aviation Daily, and six years as editor of Airports, a trade publication covering business, regulation and politics. Other stints include a brief tour as an editor and public relations chief in the early 1990's for Avmark, an aviation consulting firms whose U.S. headquarters were in Rosslyn, Va., across the river from DC's Georgetown.

When my position as Airports' editor was terminated in the summer of 2004 as part of a downsizing, I pursued freelance work and served briefly as managing editor of McGraw-Hill's Homeland Security magazine. I signed on early with Pajamas Media but didn't make the corporate cut, and am now blogging as part of the Government Relations Blog Network.

Opinions expressed at PostWatch--past, present and future--strictly are those of the author.

Bio revised Dec. 17, 2005.