Monthly Archive
August 2009
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The Audit
Gannett Spins the Hamster Wheel
August 31, 2009 05:09 PM Comments (15)
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Language Corner
Nerve Center “Enervate” is not “energetic”
August 31, 2009 04:43 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Blame Reporters, Bloggers And Readers…
August 31, 2009 04:21 PM Comments (2)
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The Audit
NYT’s Rejoinder on Obama and the Deficit
By Ryan Chittum
August 31, 2009 02:48 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Profits and Losses Keeping the ledger as the feds play banker
August 31, 2009 01:44 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Sri Lankan Journalist Found Guilty of “Creat[ing] Communal Disharmony”
August 31, 2009 12:05 PM
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The Kicker
NYT Mag’s $400K Story: A Cost Breakdown
August 31, 2009 11:45 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
CJR’s Town Hall Archive Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
August 31, 2009 11:45 AM
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Campaign Desk
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part I The view from Starbucks at Fifteenth and Third
August 31, 2009 11:45 AM Comments (18)
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The Kicker
“A First Television Job on Today Is” Like…
August 31, 2009 11:04 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg on the Derivatives Lobby
By Ryan Chittum
August 31, 2009 10:30 AM Comments (3)
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The Observatory
Can Science Be “Humanized?” Or is democracy doomed, Harper’s wonders
August 31, 2009 09:38 AM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
Chris Wallace, Cheney Groupie?
August 31, 2009 09:37 AM
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Campaign Desk
The People Have Spoken Can presidents sway public opinion on divisive domestic issues?
By Greg Marx
August 31, 2009 07:00 AM
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The Kicker
BBC Reports on a Row in Afghanistan
By Greg Marx
August 28, 2009 03:51 PM
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The Audit
What’s Going Down on the Farm? Ask the Bankers The devolution of The Wall Street Journal's page one
By Ryan Chittum
August 28, 2009 03:51 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Because it’s Friday: Minotaur Edition
August 28, 2009 03:22 PM
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Campaign Desk
Laurel to T.R. Reid For extraordinary clarity in explaining foreign health systems
August 28, 2009 01:39 PM Comments (14)
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The Kicker
Journalist feels neutral-to-negative about being profiled by the military
August 28, 2009 01:21 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WaPo: Big Bad Banks Are Getting Bigger, Badder
By Ryan Chittum
August 28, 2009 01:04 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: On the Jobs Tracking stimulus job creation is tricky business
August 28, 2009 12:34 PM
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The Kicker
Silencing the critics - Italy’s Berlusconi sues the competition
August 28, 2009 12:10 PM
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The Kicker
A Model for Sustainable Journalism, Discovered
By Greg Marx
August 28, 2009 12:01 PM
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The Audit
A Needless Ethical Slip
August 28, 2009 10:59 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Play of The Day
August 28, 2009 10:37 AM
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The Kicker
TNR Takes a Walk Down ‘The Avenue’
By Greg Marx
August 28, 2009 10:33 AM
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Lost in Translation When the 'schlong' word is the wrong word
August 28, 2009 10:05 AM Comments (6)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier, The Water Cooler
Q & A: Charles Sennott GlobalPost’s founder talks about his site’s recent multimedia Afghanistan package
August 28, 2009 06:30 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit, Transparency
FOI MIA at the FDIC
By Ryan Chittum
August 27, 2009 08:40 PM
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The Audit
Brill Rakes Muck in NYC Schools Fine urban-affairs reporting in the New Yorker. More please.
August 27, 2009 05:30 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker, Transparency
Stars and Stripes: Military Profiling Reporters
By Greg Marx
August 27, 2009 03:41 PM
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Campaign Desk
A Solid Piece on Afghan Politics Times shines a light on Karzai’s circle
By Greg Marx
August 27, 2009 02:03 PM
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Page Views
Core Competencies Alex Jones on why we must maintain the "iron core of news"
August 27, 2009 01:54 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
The Times Magazine Drops its 13,000-Word Story
By Greg Marx
August 27, 2009 01:43 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
One Story, Two Angles from the WSJ and NYT
By Ryan Chittum
August 27, 2009 10:37 AM
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Campaign Desk
Election? What Election? Debate on Afghanistan should reflect their politics, too
By Greg Marx
August 27, 2009 06:30 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
A Post Deficit Story Ignores the Obvious
By Ryan Chittum
August 26, 2009 08:33 PM
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The Kicker
Dowd’s (Kinda Hollow) Who Are You
August 26, 2009 03:16 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
The Right Way to Say Goodbye The conservative blogosphere remembers Ted Kennedy
By Greg Marx
August 26, 2009 01:22 PM Comments (7)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT’s Floyd Norris Audits The Audit
By Ryan Chittum
August 26, 2009 01:02 PM
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The Observatory
Media Hype Swine Flu Report Coverage of possible death toll ranges from wrong to remedial
August 26, 2009 12:58 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
NYT’s “Arab Press Roundup”
August 26, 2009 12:52 PM
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The Kicker
Kennedy, in Campaign Buttons
By Megan Garber
August 26, 2009 12:43 PM
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Campaign Desk
Ted Kennedy’s Health Care Legacy Reporting on the lion
August 26, 2009 12:31 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Hoarse to Horse: Health Care Coverage “Storyline Shifted Last Week”
August 26, 2009 11:16 AM
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The Kicker
Found: Another “Calm,” “Respectful” Town Hall Questioner
August 26, 2009 10:01 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Criticizing Obama’s Bernanke Nomination
By Ryan Chittum
August 26, 2009 09:45 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Kennedy: An Obituary in Multimedia
By Megan Garber
August 26, 2009 09:35 AM
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Campaign Desk
The Waiting Game No election results in Afghanistan, but plenty of stories
By Greg Marx
August 26, 2009 09:06 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
LAT’s Lazarus Alone Questions BofA Arbitration Move The rest of the press missed a big piece of the story
By Ryan Chittum
August 25, 2009 03:22 PM Comments (10)
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The Kicker
Photo Quiz: Guess the Topic of This MSNBC Segment
August 25, 2009 03:09 PM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk
Was a Public Plan Ever Really in the Cards? Did Sebelius speak the truth?
August 25, 2009 01:48 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
And Maureen Dowd’s Webinar Will Be On?
August 25, 2009 01:40 PM
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News Meeting
Back to School, for Some Reason Does journalism school still make sense these days?
By The Editors
August 25, 2009 01:35 PM Comments (17)
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Campaign Desk
Some Rationality on Medical Rationing Times takes on health care fears again
By Greg Marx
August 25, 2009 01:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
NYT Profiles Man Who Uses Indoor Voice at Health Care Town Hall
August 25, 2009 12:33 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg Wins Its Lawsuit Against the Federal Reserve
By Ryan Chittum
August 25, 2009 10:27 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
“Template For Future Newspaper” on Russia’s “Extremism List”
August 25, 2009 10:03 AM
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The Kicker
The NYT’s Too-Polite Headlines
By Greg Marx
August 25, 2009 09:39 AM
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Campaign Desk, The News Frontier
Drowning in the Days New Post feature tracks Obama's every move
By Greg Marx
August 25, 2009 09:30 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Stenography Machines Attention, Mr. Perlstein: there's nothing new about 'he said/she said'
August 25, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
If They Can’t Prove It, We Shouldn’t Say It Stenography does not count as reporting
By Greg Marx
August 24, 2009 03:53 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
In Which “Glamping” Becomes a Thing
By Megan Garber
August 24, 2009 03:44 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler, Transparency
Transparency Interview: Amrit Singh An ACLU attorney explains how their FOIA suit helped net the CIA’s torture report
August 24, 2009 03:41 PM
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Language Corner
Double Entendre When one word has opposite meanings
August 24, 2009 03:16 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ Keeps Goldman in the Spotlight
By Ryan Chittum
August 24, 2009 02:30 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Hoyt: NYT Must Laugh With (Not At) Readers
August 24, 2009 01:53 PM
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The Kicker
Contest: Non-Newsiest News From Obama’s Vineyard Vacation
August 24, 2009 01:06 PM
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The Audit, The Observatory
Forbes on ExxonMobil: “Green Company of the Year” Really?
August 24, 2009 12:57 PM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
Couric on Cankles
August 24, 2009 12:17 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Embeds: The Good, The Bad, and The Accurate
August 24, 2009 11:22 AM
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XIV Those clever drug companies
August 24, 2009 10:11 AM Comments (4)
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The Audit
Three Faces of Greeley How the local, regional, and national press covered a bank failure
August 24, 2009 09:43 AM
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The Kicker
More Details on Blackwater’s Role
By Greg Marx
August 21, 2009 07:47 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Richard Florida’s “Stimulus Map”
By Greg Marx
August 21, 2009 04:46 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
“Yo Soy un Ejemplo Vivo” A persecuted Mexican reporter fights for asylum in the U.S.
August 21, 2009 02:14 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Please, Don’t Retweet This Afghanistan’s election shows us the weakness (and strength) of Twitter
By Joshua Foust
August 21, 2009 02:11 PM
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The Kicker
Matthews on Colbert: An Explosion of Truthiness
By Megan Garber
August 21, 2009 01:27 PM
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Campaign Desk
Old News Times piece fails to make sense of seniors' health reform fears
By Greg Marx
August 21, 2009 01:06 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Duck Feeding: The Key to Better Health Care
By Greg Marx
August 21, 2009 12:44 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ v. NYT: Securitization Smackdown
By Ryan Chittum
August 21, 2009 11:33 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Saluting The Sun The British tabloid offers the world’s most amusing corrections
August 21, 2009 10:42 AM
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The Kicker
Good for him.
August 21, 2009 09:31 AM
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The Audit
Final Blow to a 60 Minutes story
August 21, 2009 09:25 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Getting Away from “Off the Record” The Sunshine Initiative's letter is a good first step
By Greg Marx
August 21, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
The Chasm Between the Value of Print and Web Readers A person buying the paper brings twenty times the revenue of an online reader
By Ryan Chittum
August 21, 2009 07:45 AM Comments (35)
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Campaign Desk
Diving Deep into Blackwater Press pushes ahead on the CIA assassination story
By Greg Marx
August 20, 2009 12:21 PM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
Jayson Blair, Life Coach
By Megan Garber
August 20, 2009 12:19 PM
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Behind the News
Remembering Don Hewitt The 60 Minutes creator invented TV news as we know it
By Betsy West
August 20, 2009 11:07 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Filkins: “Afghan Girls Live Their Lives in Reverse”
August 20, 2009 10:29 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ Weighs in on the Seattle Mayoral Race
By Ryan Chittum
August 20, 2009 10:08 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Newspaper Industry Ad Revenue at 1965 Levels Inflation-adjusted numbers show papers are even worse off than you think
By Ryan Chittum
August 19, 2009 04:40 PM Comments (21)
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The Kicker
You Know It’s Late August When…
August 19, 2009 04:37 PM
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
Lessons from the Birmingham Eccentric How one community is saving its newspaper
August 19, 2009 03:44 PM
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The Kicker
Can We Hear From David Brooks on Michelle’s Shorts?
August 19, 2009 01:57 PM Comments (15)
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Page Views
Asphalt Jungle A fresh look at a monumental smackdown over urban renewal
August 19, 2009 01:07 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Conflict is Content; Consensus Isn’t When reporting on the public option, the press takes its cues from political actors
By Greg Marx
August 19, 2009 12:47 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
In Afghanistan: “We Are Going To Continue With Our Normal Reporting”
August 19, 2009 11:00 AM
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Campaign Desk
The Limits of the ‘It’s Obama’s Fault’ Narrative Bush didn’t steamroll Congress, either
By Greg Marx
August 19, 2009 10:34 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Post’s Misleading Deflation Number
By Ryan Chittum
August 19, 2009 10:31 AM
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The Kicker
Please Be Kidding This Time, Daily Show
August 19, 2009 09:50 AM
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The Kicker
Novak’s “Empty Chair Approach”
August 18, 2009 04:45 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Now We’re Blaming Lending Laws? The WSJ tries—and fails—to tie strict laws to slow growth
August 18, 2009 04:30 PM Comments (8)
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News Meeting
Vacation Mode What, if any, media sources do you still check while on vacation?
By The Editors
August 18, 2009 02:52 PM Comments (11)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WaPo Delivers a Much-Needed “Wait a Second” The economy faces a long, hard path to any real recovery
By Ryan Chittum
August 18, 2009 02:13 PM
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The Kicker
Colleagues Remember Robert Novak
August 18, 2009 02:09 PM
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The Kicker
Just In: “What Will Happen With Michael Jackson’s Body”
August 18, 2009 12:55 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
CJR Rewind: Novak on Novak A review of Robert Novak's autobiography
August 18, 2009 12:38 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
The Meta-War in Georgia, One Year On The war over the war in Georgia is far from over
By Joshua Foust
August 18, 2009 12:11 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Kostric On “Irresponsible Reporting,” “Hoplophobia”
August 18, 2009 11:23 AM Comments (25)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ Back to the Backdating Scandal
By Ryan Chittum
August 18, 2009 09:52 AM
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The Kicker
The Future of All The News That’s Fit to Print…
August 18, 2009 09:48 AM
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Campaign Desk
Excluded Voices An interview with British health official Andrew Dillon
August 18, 2009 09:01 AM
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
Health Care and Wikipedia Wondering how to cover health care debates? Get thee to a wiki.
By Megan Garber
August 18, 2009 08:51 AM
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The Kicker
“I Want To Know What You Think…”
August 18, 2009 08:26 AM
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Language Corner
Off the Wrack The difference between “rack” and “wrack” is a wreck
August 17, 2009 05:18 PM
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The Kicker
Match the Ombud to the Offense!
August 17, 2009 04:15 PM
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The Audit
Blowing Up a Feeble Defense of Ben Stein
By Ryan Chittum
August 17, 2009 02:12 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Blogging in the Middle East: License to Differ Bloggers stand out when professional journalists don’t stand up
August 17, 2009 01:58 PM Comments (5)
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Behind the News
Blogging in the Middle East: Not Necessarily Journalistic The new threat to Middle East journalism: made in the USA
By Lawrence Pintak and Yosri Fouda
August 17, 2009 01:58 PM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
Not Since Tucker Carlson…
August 17, 2009 11:52 AM
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The Kicker
“Unemployed Copy Editors” to the Rescue?
August 17, 2009 11:37 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Q & A: The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill The UK paper's Washington bureau chief on politics, transparency, and the journalistic power of soccer
By Greg Marx
August 17, 2009 10:11 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Polling the Stimulus A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
August 17, 2009 10:09 AM
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The Audit
The NYT Looks at the FT’s Paywall
By Ryan Chittum
August 17, 2009 10:08 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Who Could “Spring For” Clinton’s Africa Trip
August 17, 2009 09:44 AM
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Campaign Desk
Reality Check for the White House Axelrod’s e-mail raises more questions
August 17, 2009 08:30 AM
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The Kicker
We Heart the Vineyard
By Daniel Luzer
August 14, 2009 05:51 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Old Job, New Trick
By Megan Garber
August 14, 2009 05:17 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Watching the Elizabeth Warren Coverage Still not good enough
By Ryan Chittum
August 14, 2009 03:54 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Overemphasizing Obama The limits of what health care can tell us about the president
By Greg Marx
August 14, 2009 01:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Fallows: “I Was Wrong.”
By Megan Garber
August 14, 2009 11:47 AM
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The Audit
NYT Flashes Confusion in HFT Reporting How much high-frequency trading involves "peeking"?
By Nina Mehta
August 14, 2009 11:42 AM Comments (3)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Don’t (Mis)quote Me The demise of an error that refused to die
August 14, 2009 11:31 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Naming and Shaming, Daily News Edition
By Megan Garber
August 14, 2009 11:25 AM
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The Kicker
Naming and Shaming at the NYT
By Greg Marx
August 14, 2009 10:46 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: An Upturn Overseas Economic news from Arizona, Florida, North Dakota, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
August 14, 2009 10:10 AM
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The Audit
Sweet or Sour?
By Ryan Chittum
August 14, 2009 09:59 AM
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The Kicker
Twitter Must Die…Long Live Twitter
By Megan Garber
August 14, 2009 09:48 AM
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The Kicker
In Which the Word “False” Is Used Five Times
By Megan Garber
August 14, 2009 09:06 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
The Wrong Stuff What we don't know about how to correct misinformation
By Greg Marx
August 14, 2009 08:20 AM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
“He Was Swimming in a Butterscotch River while Angels Blew Cream-puff Kisses at His Feet”
By Megan Garber
August 14, 2009 08:15 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Weidner: Wall Street, Still Wayward
By Ryan Chittum
August 13, 2009 05:29 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Frum: “The guns are coming out. The risks are real.”
By Megan Garber
August 13, 2009 12:37 PM Comments (12)
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The Kicker
On the Merits of Coke Classic
By Megan Garber
August 13, 2009 12:20 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Straight Talk, Part I The end-of-life myth and the real long-term care stories to be told
August 13, 2009 12:08 PM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
Newsweek and Rove
By Greg Marx
August 13, 2009 11:31 AM
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The Kicker
Could You Be (Are You Being) “Coerced” Into Reading Time?
August 13, 2009 10:47 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: A More Upbeat Outlook from the Fed A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
August 13, 2009 10:28 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
“We Have a [CNBC] Request For…Lots of Anger”
August 13, 2009 10:08 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Q & A: The New York Times’s Damon Winter The Pulitzer-winning photographer on covering contentious town halls
August 13, 2009 09:05 AM Comments (9)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
If Congress Can’t Fend off the Classic-Car Lobby… Who can it fend off? The LAT on a Cash for Clunkers loophole
By Ryan Chittum
August 13, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Investor’s Business Daily Short-Arms Correction
By Ryan Chittum
August 12, 2009 06:24 PM Comments (35)
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The Observatory
March of the Politicians Journal calls out Congress’s climate-change junket Down Under
August 12, 2009 04:35 PM
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The Kicker
Town Hall Highlight Reel Star Explains Herself on Hannity
August 12, 2009 04:11 PM Comments (11)
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Campaign Desk
“Now Don’t You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare” ...and other absurdities of fact-free town halls
By Megan Garber
August 12, 2009 04:02 PM Comments (12)
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The Audit
NYT Puts Fox Business Spin in Context
By Ryan Chittum
August 12, 2009 02:49 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Limits of “The Long View” Times reaches too far to explain restraint of Iraqi Shiites
By Greg Marx
August 12, 2009 02:28 PM
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The Kicker
Choose Your Own Interviewer on 60 Minutes?
August 12, 2009 02:21 PM
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The Kicker
Now You Can Impulse-Purchase The Economist…
August 12, 2009 12:38 PM
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The Kicker
“Things Fall Apart; Balthazar Is on Hold”
By Megan Garber
August 12, 2009 12:13 PM
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The Kicker
Clinton’s “Nothing Job”
August 12, 2009 11:05 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Schools and the Stimulus A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
August 12, 2009 10:16 AM
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The Kicker
“Scores of” Reporters Arriving In Afghanistan; 2 From AP Injured
August 12, 2009 10:09 AM
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The Audit
The WSJ is Crazy for IG’s
By Ryan Chittum
August 12, 2009 10:09 AM
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Campaign Desk
All About Afghanistan The press rediscovers the other war in a big way
By Greg Marx
August 12, 2009 09:05 AM
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The Kicker
Ferguson and Felix: Coates’s Pseudo-Defense
By Megan Garber
August 11, 2009 10:42 PM
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The Kicker
Bruni’s Last Course
By Megan Garber
August 11, 2009 09:56 PM
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The Kicker
Let Them Eat Cake. But Let That Cake Be Off-Brand.
By Megan Garber
August 11, 2009 09:52 PM
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The Kicker
Matthews to Kostric: “You’re Carrying a Goddamned Gun at a Presidential Event”
By Megan Garber
August 11, 2009 07:13 PM Comments (7)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Judge Gets It Even If the Press Did Not
By Ryan Chittum
August 11, 2009 06:26 PM
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The Kicker
In Other News from “The Rape Capital of the World”
August 11, 2009 04:18 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
More on Credit Card Overlimit Policies
By Ryan Chittum
August 11, 2009 03:56 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XIII United Healthcare has a mighty big seat
August 11, 2009 02:30 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Bosom Buddies
By Megan Garber
August 11, 2009 02:08 PM
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The Kicker
President: We Won’t “Pull the Plug On Grandma”
August 11, 2009 01:43 PM Comments (1)
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News Meeting
Truth or Consequences How should the press sort fact from fiction in a rumor-ridden world?
By The Editors
August 11, 2009 12:28 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
You Had A Bad (Hair) Day, Tabloids Edition
August 11, 2009 12:09 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
The Missing Link — How Not to Launch a Web Site
August 11, 2009 12:05 PM
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The Observatory
Writing Wrongs Journals’ call to publish scientific setbacks is an opportunity for journalists
August 11, 2009 11:49 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
No, ABC News, This Isn’t “The Way to Reform Health Care”
August 11, 2009 10:46 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Q & A, Part Two: Spencer Ackerman Part two of CJR's interview with the national security reporter
By Greg Marx
August 11, 2009 10:27 AM Comments (4)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Half Right on Banks
By Ryan Chittum
August 11, 2009 10:14 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Productivity Up; Will Jobs Follow? A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
August 11, 2009 10:07 AM
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The Kicker
Andrea Mitchell Attributes Clinton’s “Lost in Translation” Response to a “Bad Hair Day”
By Megan Garber
August 11, 2009 08:02 AM Comments (6)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT Details Paulson/Goldman Contacts
By Ryan Chittum
August 10, 2009 06:02 PM
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The Kicker
On the Etymology of ‘Dogwasher’
By Greg Marx
August 10, 2009 04:29 PM
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The Audit
Gasparino, Arbiter of Cred
By Ryan Chittum
August 10, 2009 04:20 PM
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The Kicker
Media: You’ve Got Kurtz’s Go-Ahead to Pronounce Palin “Wrong”
August 10, 2009 04:13 PM
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The Kicker
Froomkin’s First Huffington Post
By Megan Garber
August 10, 2009 02:55 PM
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The Kicker
O’Reilly ❤s Obama, but Not his Parents
By Greg Marx
August 10, 2009 02:50 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
About Today’s NYT A-1 Trend Story…
August 10, 2009 02:17 PM
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The Kicker
You Should See His Classical Music Reviews…
August 10, 2009 02:00 PM
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Language Corner
Apostrophe Catastrophes Why is this little mark so troublesome?
August 10, 2009 01:19 PM Comments (14)
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Campaign Desk
Putting the Senate Under Scrutiny Post piece ably highlights the oddity of the upper house
By Greg Marx
August 10, 2009 01:00 PM
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform and Obama’s Consumer Protections Good for consumers, or good for insurers?
August 10, 2009 11:38 AM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Hype Machine In High Gear for Journal Jets Story
By Ryan Chittum
August 10, 2009 11:19 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Q & A: Spencer Ackerman Part one of a two-part interview with the national security reporter
By Greg Marx
August 10, 2009 11:15 AM
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The Kicker
Message Received? Advertisers (and Air Force) Turn to Twitter
August 10, 2009 10:53 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
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