President Obama at 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (C-SPAN) Conan O’Brien remarks at 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (C-SPAN)  

Bloomberg reporter Elizabeth Lopatto will only take your pitch calls if it concerns dinosaurs. Best beat ever.

We feel bad for anyone who took the OVER on the 50 minute over/under for the Washington Press Club Foundation Annual Congressional Dinner last night. Major Garrett kept things moving quickly and all the guests were rolling out of their chairs laughing at Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Congressman Jason Chaffetz. From …

Interview shaming = ratings.

Meet Shane Harris. Shane is a writer for the Washingtonian covering national security. Last week, he started Dead Drop, a new blog on Washingtonian’s site dedicated to snippets of national security news and pop culture. FamousDC was lucky enough to chat with Shane about his work and the new site.

Meet Elahe Izadi. Influence Alley reporter by day, stand-up comedian by night, Elahe Izadi wend to the University of Maryland and got her start in the District covering local news. Eventually she made her way to Capitol Hill. FamousDC was lucky enough to catch up with Izadi for a few …

Fellow Americans, it has been four years since our last election. In those four years our country has experienced great highs; the death of the Osama bin Laden, the premiere of Glee, the rollout of the new Congress.gov and the Nats making it into playoffs. But we have also experienced the lowest of lows; the Salahi divorce, NFL replacement officials, the closing of the Hawk and Dove, Cap Lounge burning down [again] and Metro’s continued single tracking. As November approaches, we’re often reminded that nothing is more vital to the future of our country than who we elect into office. So while the campaign rhetoric heats up these next few weeks, ask yourself: Are politicians really the best suited to straighten out our country? Or can we do better? What if instead of electing politicians, we allowed the Fourth Estate to run the country? The people who know more about the political process than those actually running for office. Without further ado, we present to you the 2012 FamousDC Media Ticket.

…and then used this to record the conversation. Spotted on Eric Cantor’s blog.

Deadspin’s Barry Petchesky: Beat Writer Continues Nationals Coverage, Sans Newspaper Just because the Washington Times fired their entire sports section, Mark Zuckerman isn’t going to stop doing his job. For someone to cover the Nationals voluntarily, I’m not sure it’s going too far to call him a modern day Jesus.

We’re not sure what we’ll do without our daily Tech Daily Dose, but congratulations are in order for one of DC’s famous journalists: Andrew Noyes We just learned that Andrew is leaving Congress Daily and heading over to Facebook where he’ll head up public policy communications in their Washington, D.C. …

CNN isn’t the only news station that can’t seem to get it right lately. Fox News Fail – Watch more Funny Videos

FishbowlDC: Bad News for Journos [2008]

  FamousDC readers have been emailing about the media band, Suspicious Package, so we reached out to them for a Famous 5 interview. Luckily for all of us, they decided to play along. Do you know anyone FamousDC should ask 5 questions? Let us know — [email protected] 1) If Suspicious …

We’ve received a few emails this morning asking about the post-election journo shuffle that’s going to take place in the coming weeks – and while we were ready to roll it out today, we’re still waiting to hear back from a few important sources [translation: we’re lazy] and have decided …

Election Day is finally here. For some folks in DC, it comes after months of hard work on the campaign trail. For others, it’s just another day. But whether you’re a government employee, campaign junkie, Hill staffer or journalist – starting tomorrow morning, the times, they are a changin.’ And …