The weekly magazine disappeared. The company survived by noticing that Washington did not need more information nearly as much as it needed information already shaped for Monday morning.
The Washington firm treats public affairs like a field campaign: research the terrain, find the pressure point, and put every discipline on the same side of the table.
Jones Mandel sells campaigns an unusual luxury: discovering the damaging fact while there is still time to decide what it means. Its real product is not the dossier. It is the extra day before the story breaks.