Monthly Archive
January 2009
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The Kicker
Fun With Slideshows
By Katia Bachko
January 30, 2009 05:10 PM
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The Kicker
Barry’s (Black)Berry
By Katia Bachko
January 30, 2009 02:56 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Guess Who’s Twittering?
By Katia Bachko
January 30, 2009 02:34 PM
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The Kicker
California No More?
By Jane Kim
January 30, 2009 01:54 PM
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The Kicker
Updike Remembered
By Katia Bachko
January 30, 2009 01:35 PM
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Homegrown Errorists Error-spotter Robert Reed vs. the Decatur, Illinois Herald & Review
January 30, 2009 11:31 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Seattle P-I: Feds Knew About Widespread Mortgage Fraud
By Ryan Chittum
January 30, 2009 10:52 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
A Guide To Bailout Transparency Sites Another public service from The Audit
January 30, 2009 09:35 AM
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The Audit
“Populist” or Just the Truth?
By Ryan Chittum
January 30, 2009 09:09 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Don’t Blame Us!
By Ryan Chittum
January 30, 2009 08:32 AM
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The Audit
How One Job Loss Cascades Through the Economy
By Ryan Chittum
January 29, 2009 04:37 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
The Openness Ombudsman D.C.’s new FOIA ombuds office is finally taking shape
January 29, 2009 04:34 PM
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The Kicker
David Pogue’s “Twitter Experiment”
By Megan Garber
January 29, 2009 03:21 PM
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The Kicker
Pulitzers, in 1s and 0s
By Megan Garber
January 29, 2009 02:58 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Who’s Undercutting Obama? For the moment, at least, it’s his press office
January 29, 2009 01:25 PM Comments (99)
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The Observatory
The Language and Culture of Climate New book seeks to improve communication between journalists, scientists
January 29, 2009 12:45 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Politics Fix
By Megan Garber
January 29, 2009 11:44 AM
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The Audit
Bloomberg Bird-dogs Transparency Issues
By Ryan Chittum
January 29, 2009 11:12 AM
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The Kicker
Nightline’s Future (Per “People With Knowledge Of Meetings”)
January 29, 2009 11:04 AM
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The Kicker
Joan Walsh “Could Never Be” Dick Armey’s Wife (So There!)
January 29, 2009 10:09 AM
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The Kicker
End Of (Book) World?
January 29, 2009 09:24 AM
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Short Takes
Glory Days The old TV series Lou Grant offers a salve of newspaper nostalgia
January 29, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Good Madoff Scoop from the Times and Il Sole 24 Ore
By Ryan Chittum
January 29, 2009 08:52 AM Comments (2)
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Darts and Laurels
Dart to The Plain Dealer Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Katia Bachko
January 29, 2009 08:45 AM
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Essay
Condition Critical Can arts critics survive the poison pill of consumerism?
By David Hajdu
January 29, 2009 08:30 AM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Bow Reports
January 28, 2009 04:56 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Obama on al-Arabiya
January 28, 2009 04:30 PM
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The Audit
Reporting the Stimulus Plan Applaud the press for its coverage of the herky-jerky spending plans.
By Ryan Chittum
January 28, 2009 03:14 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker, The Water Cooler
Gillmor on GateHouse
By Megan Garber
January 28, 2009 01:50 PM
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The Kicker
Andrea, Anecdotally
January 28, 2009 01:19 PM
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The Kicker
Upstate/Downstate Divide in Gillibrand Coverage
By Sara Germano
January 28, 2009 01:07 PM
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The Observatory
Lead Pipes vs. Crack Pipes What to do when data supports easy explanations for difficult problems
By Lester Feder
January 28, 2009 12:58 PM
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The Audit
Breaking: 4 Minute Wait for Decaf at Starbucks
By Ryan Chittum
January 28, 2009 11:15 AM
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The Kicker
By Blago Interview #14, What’s Left To Ask?
January 28, 2009 11:11 AM
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Short Takes
Entitled Time Campaign reporters catch up on their reading
By Jane Kim
January 28, 2009 10:56 AM
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Campaign Desk
Laurel to The Oregonian Health care miracles that aren’t
January 28, 2009 10:52 AM Comments (1)
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Short Takes
Cloudy Skies A new online environment and energy energy site is tainted with conflicts of interest among its anchors and executives
By Mariah Blake
January 28, 2009 10:36 AM Comments (2)
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Feature
Opening India The world’s largest democracy finally has an FOI law—so why have journalists been slow to embrace it?
January 28, 2009 10:23 AM
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The Kicker
Did Blago Make “Self-Condemning News” On Maddow’s Show?
January 28, 2009 10:05 AM
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The Kicker
Calling All “Enlightened Philanthropists…”
January 28, 2009 09:45 AM
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Page Views
Wising Up An "investigative humorist" learns from his elders
January 28, 2009 09:00 AM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Past Perfect? Obama’s Records Act order heartens historians
January 28, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
LAT Is Good on Foreclosures
By Ryan Chittum
January 28, 2009 08:34 AM
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The Kicker
Kindle 1.0: Fired
By Megan Garber
January 27, 2009 04:45 PM
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News Meeting
The Second Chance Saloon Judith Miller is writing at The Daily Beast. Does she deserve this second chance?
By The Editors
January 27, 2009 04:40 PM Comments (16)
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The Kicker, The Observatory
“The Epidemic That Wasn’t” (Even If We Said It Was)
January 27, 2009 03:54 PM
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The Kicker
“Dream” Deferred?
January 27, 2009 03:24 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Rabbit at Rest
By Megan Garber
January 27, 2009 02:03 PM
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The Kicker
Fox Fumbles Geography
By Katia Bachko
January 27, 2009 01:51 PM
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The Audit
Inside a Layoff
By Ryan Chittum
January 27, 2009 01:40 PM
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The Kicker
Want To Be “Envelop[ed] in a Multimedia Web of [Rick] Warren’s Message”?
January 27, 2009 11:56 AM
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The Kicker
Franklin: “By Watching [The Inauguration] On TV, I’d Missed It”
January 27, 2009 11:35 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Obama Coverage Mad Libs "Our D.C. coverage will be (fair and balanced; appearing on alternate Mondays; handled by our Los Angeles bureau)"
By Steve Daley
January 27, 2009 11:31 AM Comments (5)
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Q & A: Former McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb "I was a cudgel. I pissed off the media."
By Kate Klonick
January 27, 2009 10:51 AM Comments (37)
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The Audit
WSJ Crushes the Competition
By Ryan Chittum
January 27, 2009 10:02 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Woodward Tells Matthews Something He Doesn’t Know
January 27, 2009 09:30 AM
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On the Job
The Wikinews Ace Why Shimon Peres sat down with David Shankbone
By Adam Rose
January 27, 2009 09:30 AM Comments (6)
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Review
The Devil Made Them Do It A new anthology about men (and women) behaving very badly
January 27, 2009 09:00 AM
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The Audit
Bloomberg Picks Apart Madoff “Enablers”
By Ryan Chittum
January 27, 2009 08:57 AM Comments (2)
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Essay
Dig In In an era of global shortages and biofuel debates, the food beat gets serious
January 27, 2009 08:30 AM
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The Audit
Ken Lewis in Black and White
January 26, 2009 04:06 PM Comments (2)
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The Observatory
The Price is Right, Energy Edition Obama, journalists tie efficiency and environmental protection to the economy
January 26, 2009 03:53 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Could Knowing Everything The Obamas Eat Be Good For You?
January 26, 2009 03:17 PM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Thain Again
By Ryan Chittum
January 26, 2009 02:27 PM
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The Kicker
Blago to Geraldo: “Is That Ethical?”
January 26, 2009 01:57 PM
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The Kicker
Coincidence? Synergy? Swans!
By Megan Garber
January 26, 2009 01:44 PM
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The Kicker
Miss New York: Palin, Pageant Misunderstood
January 26, 2009 12:50 PM
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Language Corner
Pedal Pushers "Soft-peddling" a faulty homonym
January 26, 2009 12:03 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
How To Handle Blago’s “Out-of-Context” Comeback
January 26, 2009 11:41 AM
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The Kicker, The Observatory
Prez Talks Energy Independence; CNN Cues SUV Ad
January 26, 2009 10:53 AM
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The Kicker
GateHouse v. Times: Settled!
By Megan Garber
January 26, 2009 10:52 AM
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The Kicker
“Governor Ignores Trial, Goes For Glam”
January 26, 2009 10:35 AM
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The Audit
Portfolio’s Trivial Pursuit Instead of investigating Goldman, it mocks the idea
January 26, 2009 10:28 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Sen. Winfrey
January 26, 2009 10:18 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
“Stop covering crimes, and start committing them.”
By Katia Bachko
January 26, 2009 10:06 AM
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The Audit
Times on the Move Toward Nationalization
By Ryan Chittum
January 26, 2009 10:02 AM
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Feature
What We Learned In the Meltdown Financial journalists saw some trees but not the forest. Now what?
January 26, 2009 09:30 AM
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The Kicker
Kristol’s Swan Song, Upstaged
January 26, 2009 09:29 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
COBRA and Health Care Equity It’s time for the press to connect some dots
January 26, 2009 09:27 AM Comments (2)
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The Research Report
Feet to the Fire Does journalism keep government honest?
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
January 26, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Journal with More on TARP
By Ryan Chittum
January 26, 2009 08:41 AM
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Review
Here Comes the Bogeyman A chaotic portrait of Rupert Murdoch and his discontents
By David Nasaw
January 26, 2009 08:30 AM
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Campaign Desk
Baucus Watch Archive An archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Baucus Watch" articles
January 25, 2009 12:47 PM
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The Kicker
U.S. News to Launch Digital Newsweekly
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 05:49 PM
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The Kicker
Voulez-Vous Lire Le Monde avec Moi, Ce Soir?
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 05:36 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
And the Winner Is…CNN!
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 05:01 PM
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The Kicker
Sketched Out
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 04:48 PM
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The Kicker
Gillmor: Journalists “Need to Become the Right Kind of Activists”
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 04:24 PM
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The Kicker
MoDo on Inauguration: “They Were Just Being Very Loving”
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 01:59 PM
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The Kicker
New York Times to the World: Teehee!
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 01:01 PM
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The Audit
The Buddy Can You Spare a Dime Index
By Ryan Chittum
January 23, 2009 12:53 PM
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The Kicker
Oprah? Really?
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 12:26 PM
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Campaign Desk
Arab Media Wars Hamas, Fatah, and the Arab media world
January 23, 2009 12:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Channeling the Vatican
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 12:07 PM
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Essay
In the Tank Did the press help elect Barack Obama?
January 23, 2009 12:00 PM Comments (12)
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The Audit
Say ‘Hey’ to WSJ on Pay
By Ryan Chittum
January 23, 2009 11:50 AM
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about art on the New York Times’s Op-Ed page, the short life of The Chicagoan, and hoaxes in the news.
By James Boylan
January 23, 2009 11:49 AM
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Regret the Error
A Rare Peek at Why Errors Occur Times offers treasure trove of error-related information
January 23, 2009 11:37 AM
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Essay
Un-American Have you listened to the right-wing media lately?
January 23, 2009 10:59 AM Comments (78)
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The Audit
Thain the Vain
By Ryan Chittum
January 23, 2009 09:26 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Obama Tours the Press Room
By Megan Garber
January 23, 2009 09:22 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Baucus Watch, Part IV Lobbyists in white hats
January 23, 2009 09:12 AM
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The Audit, The Water Cooler
Audit Interview: Alan D. Mutter "We have an enormous number of reporters today, especially at newspapers, who are reporting on the obvious."
By Ryan Chittum
January 23, 2009 08:36 AM
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The Kicker
Monitor-ing Progress
By Megan Garber
January 22, 2009 04:31 PM
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The Kicker
Digg-ing Deep: John Boehner
By Megan Garber
January 22, 2009 03:49 PM
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The Kicker
Elegy of the Day: For Digitized Staffers in an Analog World
By Megan Garber
January 22, 2009 03:11 PM
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Campaign Desk
Barack in the Ballroom Dance critics assess the Obamas' ballroom dancing skills
January 22, 2009 12:12 PM Comments (46)
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The Kicker
Obama Administration’s “Visual Press Releases”
January 22, 2009 11:40 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
WSJ Peeks Under the TARP
By Ryan Chittum
January 22, 2009 11:29 AM
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Behind the News
“And Then They Came for Me” Journalism under the gun in Sri Lanka
January 22, 2009 11:21 AM
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The Audit
Good Scoop by the FT
By Ryan Chittum
January 22, 2009 10:25 AM
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The Kicker
Chuck Todd Scolds Single-Source Kennedy’s Out Reporting
January 22, 2009 10:02 AM
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The Kicker, Transparency
NSA Knows What Olbermann Said To His Little Nephew In Upstate New York?
January 22, 2009 09:48 AM
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The Audit
Vindication for the Journal
January 22, 2009 09:15 AM
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Feature, Transparency
Hung Out to Dry The national-security press dug up the dirt, but Congress wilted
By Laura Rozen
January 22, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (11)
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The Audit
Solid Post Reporting on Regulation
By Ryan Chittum
January 22, 2009 08:37 AM
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The Kicker
And He Wore Kevlar
January 21, 2009 04:39 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Who Moved His Cheese? There's more to openness than a new Web site
By Megan Garber
January 21, 2009 04:14 PM Comments (18)
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The Kicker
Biden’s “A Long-Winded Person”
January 21, 2009 03:47 PM
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The Kicker
WardrobeGate’s Coattails
January 21, 2009 02:48 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Day One: New FOIA Rules Quick victory for transparency
January 21, 2009 02:40 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Colorblind at The New York Times
By Daniel Luzer
January 21, 2009 01:58 PM
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The Kicker
Short a Billion (or a Tad More)
By Jane Kim
January 21, 2009 01:10 PM
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The Audit
Roubini: Banks Are Insolvent
By Ryan Chittum
January 21, 2009 01:09 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Bush’s “Eyes Shrink, While His Ears Grow”
January 21, 2009 01:00 PM
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The Audit
Unsettling News From Liberty Street
January 21, 2009 12:25 PM
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The Kicker
Malia And Sasha…In the Plush
January 21, 2009 12:18 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
The Podium and the Mall Penning lines about the inauguration, columnists look both ways
By Jane Kim
January 21, 2009 11:48 AM
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Campaign Desk, Full Court Press
Above the Fold: This Land Is Our Land Obama's inauguration was a celebration forty years in the making
January 21, 2009 11:35 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
“Hope Over Fear”
January 21, 2009 10:57 AM
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The Audit
Obama “Prepared” to Take on the Banks Mess?
By Ryan Chittum
January 21, 2009 10:52 AM
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The Kicker
Bush’s Homecoming, Live (Only Fox News)
January 21, 2009 10:37 AM
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Campaign Desk
Seven Questions for Barack Obama Congratulations, Mr. President. Now get to work.
By CJR Staff
January 21, 2009 10:06 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Matthews: “Not A Political Marriage”
January 21, 2009 09:32 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Borderless Journalism in Gaza BBC, CNN-I, and Al Jazeera English offer nuanced coverage of Gaza war
January 21, 2009 09:09 AM
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Page Views, The Water Cooler
Sticks and Stones David Denby goes toe-to-toe with the scourge of snark
By James Marcus
January 21, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (9)
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The Audit
FT on Newspaper Ownership
By Ryan Chittum
January 21, 2009 08:42 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
O(o)ps! They Did It Again!
By Megan Garber
January 20, 2009 05:36 PM
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The Kicker
More Mail For Malia And Sasha…
January 20, 2009 04:46 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Dept. of Neat But Unnecessary
By Megan Garber
January 20, 2009 03:23 PM
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News Meeting
The Secret Sharer How can Obama promote openness and transparency in government?
By The Editors
January 20, 2009 02:21 PM
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The Kicker
The Inauguration, Through Matthews’s Eyes (And Lips)
January 20, 2009 01:38 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Drudge Goes Low
By Megan Garber
January 20, 2009 01:05 PM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
Gerson On The Speech: “Cliched”
January 20, 2009 01:05 PM Comments (64)
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The Kicker
“A Similar Green Dress”
January 20, 2009 12:31 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
“Editorials Worldwide…”
January 20, 2009 11:41 AM
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Campaign Desk
Missing Children The story behind the story on SCHIP
January 20, 2009 11:28 AM
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Campaign Desk
Access Issues NRO’s Gutmann says the media ban in Gaza was justified
By Jane Kim
January 20, 2009 11:10 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Scene From Afar
January 20, 2009 10:40 AM
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Campaign Desk
Live Blogging the Inauguration Live Blogs Starting here around 11 AM
By The Editors
January 20, 2009 10:21 AM Comments (38)
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The Kicker
Blitzer’s Beverage Speculation
January 20, 2009 10:04 AM
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The Audit
Time Counts the Bush Economic Errors
By Ryan Chittum
January 20, 2009 09:54 AM
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The Kicker
Thesauri All Around
January 20, 2009 09:42 AM
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The Kicker
The Presidential Bird
January 20, 2009 09:23 AM
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The Audit
Nationalize the Banks or Just the Losses?
By Ryan Chittum
January 20, 2009 08:21 AM Comments (1)
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Editorial
Let There Be Light How President Obama should reopen our government
By The Editors
January 20, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Neglect by Omission
By Katia Bachko
January 19, 2009 05:23 PM
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Language Corner
Able Action When the audience isn't in on the definition
January 19, 2009 05:00 PM
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The Kicker
Matt Cooper to TPM
By Megan Garber
January 19, 2009 03:50 PM
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The Kicker
Expect-acle
January 19, 2009 03:20 PM
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The Kicker
Maximum Exposure
By Megan Garber
January 19, 2009 02:36 PM
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The Kicker
Mo-stess
January 19, 2009 02:07 PM
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The Kicker
Roger Cohen’s Inner Lyricist
By Katia Bachko
January 19, 2009 12:40 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
To Repeat or Not To Repeat? Should the original error be restated in a correction?
January 19, 2009 10:59 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
But Will They “Lure” Ratings?
January 19, 2009 10:23 AM
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Campaign Desk, Full Court Press, Transparency
Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic Dick Cheney, Susan Crawford, Jim Lehrer, and "moving forward"
January 19, 2009 09:48 AM Comments (6)
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The Kicker, Transparency
Government, Uncovered
January 19, 2009 09:26 AM
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The Kicker
“This Business Was Too Gentlemanly”
January 19, 2009 09:10 AM
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The Kicker
Cheney’s Regrets
By Katia Bachko
January 19, 2009 09:00 AM
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The Audit
A City in the Ditch Weekly Standard, Labash, and LeDuff look beyond "Detroit."
January 19, 2009 08:05 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Inauguration: Coming Soon To A Television Set Near You! (Maybe!)
By Sara Germano
January 16, 2009 05:44 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Hamas ≠ Nazis (or Hamas = Nazis?) In some equations, proportionality does matter
By Jane Kim
January 16, 2009 03:38 PM Comments (9)
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Campaign Desk
Dart to the Florida Health News Service Whose side is it on, anyway?
January 16, 2009 11:50 AM
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The Kicker
In Which Pigs Take Flight
By Megan Garber
January 16, 2009 09:37 AM
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The Audit
The Press and Steve Jobs
By Ryan Chittum
January 16, 2009 09:25 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Chris Matthews Strikes Again
By Megan Garber
January 16, 2009 09:02 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Fortune’s Forgiving Instincts The magazine chooses not to see
January 16, 2009 08:49 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Crash A loaded term with no place in today's river-landing coverage
By Megan Garber
January 15, 2009 06:25 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Breaking: Passenger Jet in the Hudson
By Megan Garber
January 15, 2009 03:41 PM
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The Kicker
Glossy Mags’ “Journalistic Triple Axel?”
January 15, 2009 11:21 AM
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The Kicker
Reuters Evacs Gaza Bureau
January 15, 2009 10:45 AM
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The Audit
Fortune Looks at Possible Prosecutions
By Ryan Chittum
January 15, 2009 10:16 AM
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The Kicker
Guess Who’s On “The Rhetoric Beat?”
January 15, 2009 10:10 AM
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The Kicker
Cheney: “Did You See It Coming, Jim? You’re An Expert.”
January 15, 2009 09:22 AM
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Feature
A See-Through Society How the Web is opening up our democracy
January 15, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Obama’s SEC Pick Under the WSJ Microscope
By Ryan Chittum
January 15, 2009 08:49 AM
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Behind the News
Johnny Jones 2.0 It's not just financial: GlobalPost offers a new editorial model, too
By Megan Garber
January 14, 2009 04:34 PM
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The Kicker
Parading Malia And Sasha
January 14, 2009 03:55 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Next Up, Media Critics?
January 14, 2009 02:42 PM
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Starting Thoughts
Once Burned, But Not Shy For this young journalist, the search for justice is here to stay. The rest is just details.
January 14, 2009 02:18 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
“Media Heavies” and “Hot Nerds”
January 14, 2009 01:39 PM
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The Kicker
Sounds of Silence in Denver
January 14, 2009 12:52 PM
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The Kicker
“And Then They Came For Me”
January 14, 2009 11:37 AM
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The Kicker
Openness victory on lost White House emails
January 14, 2009 10:47 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Dinner at Will’s
January 14, 2009 10:17 AM
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Campaign Desk
WellPoint Gets in Trouble with Medicare Journalists should jump on this story ASAP
January 14, 2009 10:04 AM Comments (9)
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The Audit
Trade Plunges; Whither China?
By Ryan Chittum
January 14, 2009 09:54 AM
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The Kicker
Another A1 Juxtaposition
January 14, 2009 09:18 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
A Couple of Misses on Citi
By Ryan Chittum
January 14, 2009 08:47 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
“Wonk” It!
January 13, 2009 04:31 PM
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The Kicker
Palin’s Email to the Editor
January 13, 2009 03:28 PM Comments (4)
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News Meeting
Exit Cheney What questions should Lehrer ask the Veep?
By The Editors
January 13, 2009 12:15 PM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
Helen?
January 13, 2009 11:34 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
To Sell Or Not to Sell Carr and Jarvis on newspaper business models
By Ryan Chittum
January 13, 2009 11:24 AM Comments (6)
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Language Corner
Not So Impeachy "Impeachment": a clarification
January 13, 2009 10:59 AM
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The Audit
“What Is Financial Journalism For?” A timely academic study asks the right questions
January 13, 2009 10:39 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
How The “Wistful” “Final Q&A” Was Covered
January 13, 2009 10:22 AM
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The Kicker
Ready For His Close-Up
January 13, 2009 09:14 AM
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Behind the News, The Observatory
Environmental S.W.A.T. Team New York Times’s new ‘pod’ gathers talent from multiple beats
January 13, 2009 09:12 AM Comments (14)
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The Kicker
NYPD “Recognizes 21st Century Journalists”
January 13, 2009 09:06 AM
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The Audit
WSJ Sees the Bright Side of Layoffs
By Ryan Chittum
January 13, 2009 08:52 AM
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Feature
What We Didn’t Know Has Hurt Us The Bush administration was pathological about secrecy. Here’s what needs to be undone after eight dark years—and why it won’t be easy.
January 13, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Can I Borrow A Forward?
January 12, 2009 05:35 PM
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The Kicker
The Atlantic v. NYT: the Times responds
By Megan Garber
January 12, 2009 04:18 PM
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Full Court Press
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do? Kaiser on Newsweek's "What Would Cheney Do?" cover
January 12, 2009 02:31 PM
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Campaign Desk
Stop the Ambulance Chasers! Knowing a lot about Iraq doesn’t help you much in Afghanistan
By Joshua Foust
January 12, 2009 01:25 PM
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The Kicker
Want a Biscuit? (Sit. Roll Over. Play Dead.)
January 12, 2009 12:57 PM
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Campaign Desk
Health Care Flashpoints Archive An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” articles
January 12, 2009 12:27 PM
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The Kicker
Meeting of the Minds, Part Two
January 12, 2009 12:24 PM
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The Audit
The Post Rips the Bush Economy
By Ryan Chittum
January 12, 2009 11:22 AM
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The Kicker
“Hey Guys. You want a Story? C’Mere…”
January 12, 2009 11:02 AM
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“Just People Trying To Do The Best They Possibly Can”
January 12, 2009 10:46 AM
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The Audit
The Journal’s Late Swing at Housing’s “Baghdad Bob”
By Ryan Chittum
January 12, 2009 09:57 AM
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Campaign Desk, Full Court Press
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do? Kaiser on Newsweek's "What Would Cheney Do?" cover
January 12, 2009 09:50 AM Comments (32)
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“Bending Elbows” With Bono
January 12, 2009 09:26 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
A Headline Writer Gets Carried Away A real plan, or a lot of sweet talk from Daschle and his Senate colleagues?
January 12, 2009 09:19 AM Comments (1)
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The Research Report
Voting for Glass Houses Why government transparency may be a lofty goal
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
January 12, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The Mail Reviewing recent issues of the Baltimore City Paper, Mother Earth News, 2000. The European Journal, and more
By The Editors
January 9, 2009 04:57 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Hardball A veteran sports columnist meets—and shrugs off—Internet outrage
By Megan Garber
January 9, 2009 04:36 PM Comments (10)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Politicker Out
January 9, 2009 03:12 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
The Opinion Chorus on Gaza What columnists and opinion writers argued, explained, and claimed this week
By Jane Kim
January 9, 2009 02:22 PM Comments (5)
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Campaign Desk
Gaza Blogroll First-person accounts of the conflict in Palestine
By Katia Bachko
January 9, 2009 01:25 PM
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Regret the Error
Letter Imperfect A better strategy for verifying letters to the editor
January 9, 2009 11:57 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
The Harry Reid Show Report the facts, not the drama, of the Roland Burris situation
By Daniel Luzer
January 9, 2009 11:51 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit, The Water Cooler
Audit Interview: Gretchen Morgenson "You've got to keep hammering"
By Ryan Chittum
January 9, 2009 11:30 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Who’s Gonna Write Your Wild Horses?
By Megan Garber
January 9, 2009 10:26 AM
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The Audit
Finally, Somebody Says It
January 9, 2009 09:21 AM
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Behind the News
We (Heart) Bag Fees!? Times article an insult to consumer reporting, common sense
January 9, 2009 09:14 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
How to Save the Times!
By Megan Garber
January 9, 2009 09:13 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
The Meeting of the Minds
By Megan Garber
January 9, 2009 09:05 AM Comments (2)
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Q and A
Object Lessons Holland Cotter on truth, beauty, and critical Zen
January 9, 2009 09:00 AM
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Behind the News
Apocalypse Now The Times will die in May! But not really!
By Megan Garber
January 9, 2009 08:00 AM
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The Audit
A Bit of Data to Back Our Thesis
January 9, 2009 07:57 AM
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The Audit
Bloomberg Tears the TARP
January 9, 2009 07:05 AM
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Campaign Desk
What the Red Cross Sees, the Media Still Can’t Red Cross statement on Gaza conditions underscores lack of media access
By Jane Kim
January 8, 2009 05:16 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
War of the Words How descriptions of Hamas shape our understanding of the Gaza conflict
By Katia Bachko
January 8, 2009 04:21 PM Comments (5)
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Sweet Charity
By Megan Garber
January 8, 2009 03:50 PM
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Media Mattered
By Megan Garber
January 8, 2009 03:09 PM
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The Audit
Deep Journal Resources On Display in India
January 8, 2009 11:45 AM
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Campaign Desk
The TV Doc as Surgeon General Whose interests will Sanjay Gupta promote?
January 8, 2009 11:38 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Pressed to Speculate: On the Rockets from Lebanon Headlines run wild on the second-front front
By Jane Kim
January 8, 2009 11:05 AM
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The Kicker
A “Photo Essay,” From FoxNews.com
January 8, 2009 10:02 AM
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The Kicker
The Munsters of MSNBC
January 8, 2009 09:40 AM
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The Kicker
Supposed Senate Run? Just Hardball
January 8, 2009 09:29 AM
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Behind the News
Media Layoff Mad Libs 10,000 ways to bid farewell to a (colleague; great reporter; car pool organizer)
By Steve Daley
January 8, 2009 09:26 AM Comments (15)
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The Audit
Losing Lehman Press coverage dances around the true shame of Fuld and his fallen firm
January 8, 2009 09:04 AM
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Review
All in the Family The Bacardi saga encapsulates Cuba’s turbulent history
By Mirta Ojito
January 8, 2009 09:00 AM
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The Audit
Eisinger On Regulators
January 8, 2009 08:35 AM
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The Audit
Too Easy on TARP
January 8, 2009 06:16 AM
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The Kicker
Gupta Plays One On TV. (Also: He Is One).
January 7, 2009 04:30 PM
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table Archive Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
January 7, 2009 04:05 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Rage Will Be Televised Al Jazeera and its imitators cover Gaza like no one else—but at what cost?
January 7, 2009 02:02 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
“Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich)”
January 7, 2009 01:29 PM Comments (2)
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about public confession and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
By James Boylan
January 7, 2009 01:15 PM
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The Kicker
Where In The World Is Joe The Plumber?
January 7, 2009 01:14 PM
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The Kicker
Wonders of the Web, Part 1,437: Crowd-Sourced Inauguration Speech
By Megan Garber
January 7, 2009 11:29 AM
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The Audit
LAT Scores on Health Insurance Scheme
By Ryan Chittum
January 7, 2009 10:48 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Babo’s Bird and Baked Fries
January 7, 2009 10:11 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Journalist, Fig Leaf
January 7, 2009 09:37 AM
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Behind the News
Sex Ed 101 The WSJ weighs in on abstinence pledges
By Katia Bachko
January 7, 2009 09:36 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Pearlstein Skewers Obama’s SEC Pick
By Ryan Chittum
January 7, 2009 09:29 AM
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table? Part IV The docs have escaped media scrutiny—so far
January 7, 2009 09:06 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
The Journal Goes Frontline A (mostly) well-done mini-documentary on the financial crisis
By Ryan Chittum
January 7, 2009 08:38 AM
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The Observatory
Gupta for Surgeon General Obama asks CNN journalist, neurosurgeon to be top doc
January 6, 2009 05:22 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Paging…Surgeon General Gupta?
January 6, 2009 02:04 PM
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News Meeting
Malia and Sasha Go to School How should the media cover Obama's daughters?
By The Editors
January 6, 2009 01:50 PM Comments (16)
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The Kicker
“Most Used” Network Reporter of 2008
January 6, 2009 01:40 PM
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Campaign Desk
Minnesota Paper Jam The Wall Street Journal gets its facts wrong
By Katia Bachko
January 6, 2009 12:10 PM
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Campaign Desk, Full Court Press
Winners & Sinners Kaiser on Barney Frank, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Benjamin Button, and others
January 6, 2009 10:58 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
MSNBC Cringes For Making Itself Cringe
January 6, 2009 10:03 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Conflict-of-Interestism and Lewis/Einhorn
By Ryan Chittum
January 6, 2009 09:24 AM
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The Kicker
Perception (Pet-ception?) Analyzers
January 6, 2009 09:24 AM
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Behind the News
Aspen New Year’s Eve Bomb Threat Proves—once again—the value of a local paper
January 6, 2009 09:03 AM Comments (4)
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Essay
Back to the Future How sports writing can recapture its relevance
January 6, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (18)
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Campaign Desk
A Laurel to the AP For exposing one of Medicare’s biggest holes
January 6, 2009 08:56 AM
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Campaign Desk
Somalia: Quicksand, or Vital Interests? The debate over Somalia should not be a proxy for partisan politics
By Joshua Foust
January 6, 2009 08:52 AM Comments (5)
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Language Corner
Our Tense Past Sneaking a dive into a swim
January 5, 2009 05:15 PM
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The Audit
WSJ’s Good Vehicle for Explaining Subprime Mess
By Ryan Chittum
January 5, 2009 03:58 PM
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Behind the News
Under Presser Okay, maybe it was "the first governmental press conference ever held on Twitter." Is that really a story?
By Megan Garber
January 5, 2009 03:12 PM
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The Kicker
Tweet What?
January 5, 2009 03:00 PM
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Photo Finish
By Megan Garber
January 5, 2009 02:01 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Government Transparency Takes a Hit Agencies' midnight rule changes may make it harder for FOIA requestors to get information
By Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica
January 5, 2009 02:00 PM
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The Kicker
(Not) Getting Into Gaza
January 5, 2009 12:51 PM
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The Kicker
MSNBC Makes Itself Cringe
January 5, 2009 12:24 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
First Day Of School Reports
January 5, 2009 11:16 AM
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The Audit
Bloomberg on the Dearth of Lending
By Ryan Chittum
January 5, 2009 10:10 AM
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The Kicker
Photojournalists On Working Iraq
January 5, 2009 09:58 AM
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The Audit
Michael Lewis and David Einhorn on Long-Term Fixes
By Ryan Chittum
January 5, 2009 09:43 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Sign of the Times: A1 Ads
January 5, 2009 09:23 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Journal Finds More Regulatory Failures on Madoff
By Ryan Chittum
January 5, 2009 08:35 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Report from the Tupperware Circuit, Part II The public vents, the press takes notice
January 5, 2009 08:19 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Best of 2008: Katia Bachko Bachko picks her top stories from 2008
By Katia Bachko
January 5, 2009 12:00 AM
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Second Read
Citizen Mailer In his finest work, Norman Mailer applied subjective journalism to the powerful, and to himself
By Tom Piazza
January 5, 2009 12:00 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
RTE’s New Year Wishes New year’s resolutions for corrections and accuracy
January 2, 2009 03:13 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Best of 2008: Jane Kim Kim picks her top stories from 2008
By Jane Kim
January 2, 2009 12:00 PM
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The Audit
Audit Rewind: Elinore Longobardi’s Best of 2008 A handful of her picks from last year
By Ryan Chittum
January 1, 2009 09:05 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Best of 2008: Trudy Lieberman Lieberman picks her top stories from 2008
January 1, 2009 03:10 PM
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Campaign Desk
Excluded Voices Archive An archive of all entries in Trudy Lieberman's "Excluded Voices" series
January 1, 2009 12:56 PM Comments (6)
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