Monthly Archive
July 2010
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Illiquid Lehman, Drumbeat.org, Markets Rule
By Ryan Chittum
July 30, 2010 07:58 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The SEC Slaps Citi for Concealing $43 Billion in Toxic Assets
By Ryan Chittum
July 30, 2010 07:34 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
WSJ Buries Wylys Story, Ignores GOP Angle
By Ryan Chittum
July 30, 2010 03:54 PM Comments (22)
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Behind the News, The Audit, The News Frontier
It’s All About Us WaPo’s Story Lab experiment fizzles
By Holly Yeager
July 30, 2010 12:52 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Regret the Error
How WikiLeaks Outsourced the Burden of Verification To the Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel
July 30, 2010 12:15 PM
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The Kicker
Christiane, I wrote you a song
By Joel Meares
July 30, 2010 11:59 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sebelius Watch, Part IV The press falls for the bait
July 30, 2010 10:28 AM
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Obama, Labor Buster; BP Board’s Blame; Google Pollution
By Ryan Chittum
July 29, 2010 08:24 PM
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The Audit, The Observatory
BP Defines Deviancy Down The national press is slow off the mark on the huge oil spill in Michigan
By Ryan Chittum
July 29, 2010 07:24 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Fox Faults On FOIA New law unclear, but not as bad as you’ve heard
July 29, 2010 05:01 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The News Frontier
Bringing a Big Story Home at The Omaha World-Herald Local reporting in the age of wire copy
July 29, 2010 04:09 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Q & A: Nevada Political Journalist Jon Ralston “People just hate Harry Reid... They would vote for Charles Manson over Harry Reid."
By Joel Meares
July 29, 2010 03:52 PM Comments (13)
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The Kicker
Karzai’s About-Face in the NYT
July 29, 2010 12:26 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Mercury News: Lobbyists As “Shadow Legislature” in CA A special report explains the "Sacramento version" of lawmaking
July 29, 2010 11:44 AM
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The Kicker
Obama on The View (On Afghanistan, On Snooki)
July 29, 2010 11:14 AM
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The Audit
WSJ Looks at the Overdraft Bottom Feeders
By Ryan Chittum
July 29, 2010 09:59 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Moody’s Market, Revolving Door, Tables Turned on Zuck
By Ryan Chittum
July 28, 2010 07:13 PM
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The Audit
Yglesias and McArdle Miss on Interchange Fees
By Ryan Chittum
July 28, 2010 05:46 PM
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The Kicker, The News Frontier
What We Need is a “Slow News Movement”
July 28, 2010 05:22 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs From Brussels, to a bunker, to blockbusters
July 28, 2010 02:18 PM Comments (7)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet And other findings from an Annenberg study
July 28, 2010 02:12 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Apple’s Controlling Instincts Hit Time and SI
By Ryan Chittum
July 28, 2010 01:57 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Democrats are hotter than Republicans, says The Hill
By Joel Meares
July 28, 2010 01:25 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT Goes to the Numbers Economists' analysis brings welcome data to stimulus debate
By Holly Yeager
July 28, 2010 12:42 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Bubble Boys The WikiLeaks documents put an underreported war back on the nation’s radar. It doesn’t matter that the pundits are yawning.
By Joel Meares
July 28, 2010 10:27 AM Comments (11)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
Kudos to The New York Times For revealing the contradictions in health and financial reform
July 28, 2010 10:16 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Audit Notes: GE Corruption, Poor Subsidizing the Rich, Takedown
By Ryan Chittum
July 27, 2010 08:55 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Seven Top-Paid CEOs Lost Shareholders’ Money in the 2000s
By Ryan Chittum
July 27, 2010 06:24 PM
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
Visualizing Data, Telling a Story Behind the scenes of The Guardian’s interactive WikiLeaks coverage
July 27, 2010 05:08 PM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ’s Stimulus-Debate Story is Debatable A page-one piece says economists question whether stimulus makes things worse but can't find any who actually do
By Holly Yeager
July 27, 2010 03:59 PM Comments (14)
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The Kicker, Transparency
“I’m here to tell you what it’s like to be a reporter at Guantanamo.”
July 27, 2010 03:29 PM
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News Meeting
Finding Stories in the WikiLeaks Material How should local and regional outlets cover the WikiLeaks material?
By The Editors
July 27, 2010 01:16 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
For CNN: The “What Glenn Beck Said” Show
July 27, 2010 12:22 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Reuters Gets a Wall Street Take on Warren
By Ryan Chittum
July 27, 2010 10:52 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
The Summer of Alvin Greene?
July 27, 2010 10:03 AM
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels The diamond thief's tale sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was.
July 27, 2010 08:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Angelides; Goldman Sachs; Broke, Fat, and Stoned
By Ryan Chittum
July 26, 2010 08:31 PM Comments (4)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Looking the Other Way on Wall Street NYT's Morgenson reports that Wall Street knew that bundled loans didn't meet standards
By Ryan Chittum
July 26, 2010 05:54 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
On Tax-Cut Politics, WSJ Adds to the Confusion
By Holly Yeager
July 26, 2010 05:50 PM
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Campaign Desk
WaPo, Time, and Others Play Catch-up on WikiLeaks What to do when you don’t get the exclusive
By Joel Meares
July 26, 2010 05:49 PM Comments (1)
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Language Corner
For Giving How to know when ‘for’ needs an ‘e’
July 26, 2010 04:00 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
The Assange Leaks What’s new about the WikiLeaks data?
By Joshua Foust
July 26, 2010 03:18 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk, The News Frontier
Gaining Readers’ Confidence In the WikiLeaks Dump Part II: Verification
July 26, 2010 03:03 PM
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The Kicker
Be Joy Behar (What Would You Ask Obama?)
July 26, 2010 02:26 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Blog Reax to WikiLeaks’s Leak (Afghan War’s Pentagon Papers?)
July 26, 2010 01:48 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The News Frontier
How Three News Outlets Handled the WikiLeaks Dump Part I: online presentation
July 26, 2010 01:43 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Same Docs, Different Stories The three outlets gifted by WikiLeaks take three different approaches
By Joel Meares
July 26, 2010 12:46 PM Comments (2)
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The Audit
“The Word Was Polo; The Man, Ralph Lauren” Place those special sections, gleefully, in the recycle pile unread
By Ryan Chittum
July 26, 2010 11:43 AM
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
British Tabloid Strikes Gossip Gold Online An argument for isolating print and Web newsrooms
July 26, 2010 11:21 AM
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The Audit
It’s Still Unclear Why Cassano Got Off the Hook
By Ryan Chittum
July 23, 2010 06:16 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
The Un-federated Tea Party Caucus WaPo’s roundup of new caucus is funny, but misses a key point
By Joel Meares
July 23, 2010 04:43 PM
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The Observatory
Chronicle Gives “Climategate” Probes Their Due Even wary journalists find little evidence of whitewash
July 23, 2010 03:23 PM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Climate Bill Blowout It’s a big deal. Where’s the print coverage?
July 23, 2010 03:00 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010
July 23, 2010 02:31 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
NYT’s Rangel Work Gets Results on the Hill But rest of the press tries not to notice
By Holly Yeager
July 23, 2010 12:43 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
If a Correction Falls in the Woods… Slate’s pot-kettle-black takedown of Politico
July 23, 2010 12:17 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
A Front-and-Center Corrections Policy TBD.com launches its policy before launching site
July 23, 2010 11:15 AM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier, The Water Cooler
Q & A: ABC News’s Paul Slavin The ABC News Digital senior vice-president talks about his new, spherical iPad app
July 23, 2010 10:55 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
Paying Attention to Social Security Two takes from the MSM
July 23, 2010 10:35 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Pretty-Penny Paywall, Booty, Fair Trade
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2010 10:21 PM
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The Audit
Bright Spots For the Times in Digital Revenue
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2010 07:29 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
WaPo’s Chamber Piece Misses a Few Notes The paper reports the lobby group is "losing," but doesn't hear the ringing of cash registers
By Holly Yeager
July 22, 2010 03:58 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Guilt of an Expatriate Journalist American writer wrestles with free speech inequity and what to do about it
July 22, 2010 03:01 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ’s Good Coverage of Warren and the CFPB
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2010 02:22 PM
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Campaign Desk
What’s Secret in ‘Top Secret America?’ The Washington Post didn't really tell us anything new
By Joshua Foust
July 22, 2010 10:34 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
Calling a Spade a Spade or a Fox a Fox The Times minces no words on the Sherrod story
By Joel Meares
July 22, 2010 10:25 AM Comments (23)
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Feature
The Rise of Private News A niche model can make a lot of money. What are the costs?
July 22, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
CNBC’s Dennis Kneale Goes Native Cultivating powerful sources at the expense of telling the story
By Ryan Chittum
July 21, 2010 09:19 PM Comments (8)
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Fannie/Freddie Already, Obama on Finreg, WaMu’s Valukas?
By Ryan Chittum
July 21, 2010 08:20 PM
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Campaign Desk
After the Storm How the Sherrod story came up in print
By Joel Meares
July 21, 2010 05:09 PM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk
“Top Secret” Co-Author under Fire, for Some Reason Politico fans the flames of lackluster Arkin "controversy"
July 21, 2010 04:46 PM Comments (2)
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The News Frontier
“Freemiums” and “Ambience”: the Future of Mobile Content? A paidContent conference recap
July 21, 2010 04:13 PM
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Campaign Desk
How do you know what a poll number is worth? After survey scandals, transparency’s the buzz word
July 21, 2010 12:41 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
NYT Reports on Gitmo Press Access Dispute
By Greg Marx
July 21, 2010 12:39 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Other Liz Liz Fowler and the WellPoint connection
July 21, 2010 11:44 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Surprise! Ratings Firms Nailed By Financial Reform
By Ryan Chittum
July 21, 2010 09:55 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
The Economy and Politics, One More Time Do we need to worry about journalists overstating the economy's role?
By Greg Marx
July 21, 2010 08:30 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Not-So-Sharp Claws, Eighty Cents, A+!
By Ryan Chittum
July 20, 2010 08:10 PM
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The Observatory
Stephen Schneider: Climate Communicator Remembering an esteemed scientist’s contributions to the media over three decades
July 20, 2010 05:48 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Politico’s Memory Hole Grows Deeper
July 20, 2010 04:48 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Et Tu, WaPo? The Post’s weightless weigh-in on the Black Panthers coverage
By Joel Meares
July 20, 2010 04:35 PM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Audit D.C. Notes: Smoked Out, Debate On, Happy Enough?
By Holly Yeager
July 20, 2010 03:58 PM
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The Kicker
A Story in Screen Shots: Cable News Covers Lohan
July 20, 2010 02:51 PM Comments (3)
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News Meeting
Weekly Reader Do you still read alt-weekly newspapers?
By The Editors
July 20, 2010 02:50 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Megabanks on Steroids The Journal examines how the too big just keep getting bigger
By Ryan Chittum
July 20, 2010 10:58 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Water Cooler
Social Security in Perspective A conversation with Ted Marmor
July 20, 2010 10:15 AM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk
Georgia On Your Mind Some down south reading in the lead-up to the Peach State primaries
By Joel Meares
July 20, 2010 07:30 AM
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Review
American Soldiers Think you know them? Sebastian Junger suggests you have no idea.
By Tom Bissell
July 20, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Audit Notes: GPOs, Broadcom Injustice, The Upside of BP
By Ryan Chittum
July 19, 2010 09:17 PM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg’s Obama Bull
By Ryan Chittum
July 19, 2010 07:48 PM
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The Observatory
Obits for Schneider Roll In Reporters pay respect to climate scientist and “mediarologist”
July 19, 2010 05:00 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker, The News Frontier
Knight-Batten Innovation Award Winners Announced
July 19, 2010 04:52 PM
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The Audit
FT: Wall Street Opacity Survives
By Ryan Chittum
July 19, 2010 04:21 PM
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The Kicker
The Young and The Burned Out
July 19, 2010 03:53 PM
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Language Corner
Two Shall Be as One The gospel of merging words
July 19, 2010 03:52 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Keeping It Simple Journos take note: The economy drives politics
By Greg Marx
July 19, 2010 03:28 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit
Mind the Gap Politico looks at how Washington elites see the economy
By Holly Yeager
July 19, 2010 02:02 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker, The Observatory
Oil spill, climate coverage drive growth at Mother Jones
July 19, 2010 12:24 PM
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The Kicker
It’s Morning in “Top Secret America”
July 19, 2010 12:19 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
The Trials of Covering Gitmo’s Justice Despite restrictions, foreign media follow the story at detention center
By Betwa Sharma
July 19, 2010 12:18 PM
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The Observatory
Pachauri Revises IPCC Media Plan Chairman apologies to scientists for previous letter
July 19, 2010 11:58 AM Comments (1)
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Page Views
Hot Zone A portrait of Pakistan’s volatile frontier
July 19, 2010 11:43 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Kanjorski?, Top 1 Percent, Geithner vs. Warren
By Ryan Chittum
July 16, 2010 06:34 PM
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Behind the News
All Eyes On Gaga What the popstar reveals about some lazy fashion reporting
By Joel Meares
July 16, 2010 04:30 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker, The News Frontier
New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad
July 16, 2010 04:24 PM
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Campaign Desk
Saying Something New Two reporters on the challenges of writing a fresh political profile
By Joel Meares
July 16, 2010 02:42 PM
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The Observatory
“Two Stories” of Gulf Seafood News reports tread the line between confidence and caution
July 16, 2010 11:40 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Canadian Media in Crisis Reporters and citizens struggle with aftermath of G20 Summit
July 16, 2010 11:33 AM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Service Journalism
July 16, 2010 10:59 AM
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Campaign Desk
Press Pushes for Greater Access at Gitmo In wake of reporter bans, news outlets team up, take case to Pentagon
By Greg Marx
July 16, 2010 10:55 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
The Sun Chronicle Puts its Comments Behind a Paywall But it’s not about the money
July 16, 2010 10:40 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
That Word Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
By Greg Marx
July 16, 2010 10:38 AM
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The Audit
The Goldman Settlement Coverage is Mostly On-Target
By Ryan Chittum
July 16, 2010 09:39 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: The SEC Lets Goldman Off Easy
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2010 07:25 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Audit D.C. Notes: Sweetheart Deals, Tax Talk, Commission Coverage
By Holly Yeager
July 15, 2010 04:54 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
What They Don’t Know The press has work to do on the deficit debate
By Holly Yeager
July 15, 2010 03:25 PM
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Campaign Desk
Winning the Morning, Missing the Point Politico buries the lede in its big Obama story
By Greg Marx
July 15, 2010 02:39 PM
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The Kicker
“Hi, welcome to this esteemed mainstream media institution.”
By Joel Meares
July 15, 2010 02:34 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ on the Lookout for Poor Lending
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2010 02:10 PM
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Campaign Desk
Goodbye Girl Power, Hello Cat Fighting LA Times piece substitutes one female pol storyline for another
By Joel Meares
July 15, 2010 12:34 PM
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Campaign Desk
An Oddly Weightless Times Profile But was it a beat sweetener?
By Joel Meares
July 15, 2010 11:50 AM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
Don’t Get Your Printing Advice From a Printer Manufacturer And other tips for small-run publications
July 15, 2010 11:33 AM
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The Kicker
BBC for Us!
July 15, 2010 11:19 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Most Politico Sentence In Politico Piece
July 15, 2010 10:49 AM
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The Kicker
Some Spice in the Pundit Pool
July 15, 2010 09:58 AM
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Feature
Justice for John Conroy John Conroy spent years exposing police torture in Chicago. Now the alleged leader is on trial, and the reporter is laid off.
By Don Terry
July 15, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (8)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Bloomberg Misses, Indiviglio Hits, Shadow Banking
By Ryan Chittum
July 14, 2010 07:23 PM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ Tries to Tie Farmers to Bank Reform, Fails
By Ryan Chittum
July 14, 2010 06:30 PM
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The Kicker
In Afghanistan: “Yes, That Was Your Son”
July 14, 2010 04:41 PM
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The Observatory
Inside BP’s Media Blockade Contractor who obstructed WDSU reporter's access to beach cleanup decides to talk
July 14, 2010 03:00 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
What it’s Like to Be The Wall Street Journal’s Friend Taking the Journal’s Foursquare layer for a test ride
July 14, 2010 02:42 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
CNN’s Got Talent?
By Joel Meares
July 14, 2010 01:43 PM
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The Kicker
Breaking BP News*
July 14, 2010 09:37 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Anatomy of a Zombie Lie The AP and the "charging $12.50 to quote five words" meme
By Ryan Chittum
July 13, 2010 07:14 PM Comments (14)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Sorkin Types Up Hank Paulson’s Historical Revisionism The ex-Treasury secretary, Wall Street CEO until mid-2006, gets a free ride
By Ryan Chittum
July 13, 2010 02:20 PM
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News Meeting
The Migration to Mobile E-Reading What would it take for you to buy news on the iPad or Kindle?
By The Editors
July 13, 2010 01:17 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk
See Alabama Run Catch up on coverage of today's Alabama primary runoffs
By Joel Meares
July 13, 2010 12:47 PM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit
End of the Line for the 99ers WaPo highlights the longtime jobless
By Holly Yeager
July 13, 2010 12:44 PM Comments (83)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
On Hyperlocals, Hyper-hiring, and Hype MainStreetConnect has big plans for the future
July 13, 2010 12:05 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Sir Anderson Cooper?
July 13, 2010 11:46 AM
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Campaign Desk
A Fresh Take on Health Care Does reform solve the ER problem?
July 13, 2010 10:58 AM Comments (4)
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Language Corner
Presto, Chango! The magic of a deceptive word
July 13, 2010 10:21 AM
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The Observatory
I’ll Have the Climate Coverage, Please Kurtz wants some; so does the Times, though it doesn’t deliver
July 13, 2010 10:09 AM Comments (6)
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Cover Story
A Second Chance How mobile devices can absolve journalism of its original sin: giving away online content
July 13, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (9)
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Radical Wolf, BofA Repo, Radical Douthat
By Ryan Chittum
July 12, 2010 07:28 PM Comments (1)
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The Observatory, Transparency
Mediaphobia at the IPCC Letter steers scientists away from the press, despite recent calls for transparency
July 12, 2010 03:44 PM Comments (27)
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The Audit
BusinessWeek on BP’s Economic Devastation of the Gulf
By Ryan Chittum
July 12, 2010 03:41 PM
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
This Paywall is Sorry for Your Loss
July 12, 2010 03:22 PM
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Campaign Desk
NYT Wonders About Whitman’s “Business Decision”
July 12, 2010 03:12 PM
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The Kicker
Mika’s Grumpy, Meta Morning
By Joel Meares
July 12, 2010 03:01 PM
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The Kicker
Counting on a World Cup Memory Hole
July 12, 2010 02:14 PM
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Campaign Desk
PolitiFact, Pedantry, and Rolling Heads Pols’ complaints about fact-checking site miss the mark
By Joel Meares
July 12, 2010 02:03 PM
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The Kicker
“Driv[ing] Toward the News of the Day”
July 12, 2010 09:47 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: The Rich and the Ruthless, Twin Otter, Luskin
By Ryan Chittum
July 9, 2010 07:48 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, Encapsulated
By Ryan Chittum
July 9, 2010 06:52 PM Comments (10)
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The Kicker, The News Frontier
E-readers: Quick with Apps, Slow for Brains
July 9, 2010 05:15 PM
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Campaign Desk
Steele Trap The press knew what the RNC chief was saying, but internecine warfare is a better story
By Joel Meares
July 9, 2010 04:20 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Viva Las Vegas The Las Vegas Sun reporter keeping candidates in check
By Joel Meares
July 9, 2010 04:17 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Rich Are Different, Still The NYT follows the Journal to the wealthy default story
By Holly Yeager
July 9, 2010 12:30 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Regret the Error’s Summer Reading List Beach reading for the corrections hound
July 9, 2010 11:27 AM
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The Kicker, The News Frontier
A New Direction for Patch?
July 9, 2010 10:55 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
The Plain Dealer on the LeBron Betrayal
By Ryan Chittum
July 9, 2010 10:50 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda at Politico Reporters reach to tie Obama administration to Blagojevich business
By Joel Meares
July 9, 2010 10:48 AM Comments (1)
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The Observatory, The Water Cooler
Meet the AP’s New Oil Spill Editor A Q&A with Steve Gutkin
July 9, 2010 10:40 AM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
(Ex) Titans of Industry Against Free Trade Fundamentalism Intel founder Andy Grove calls for a serious re-examination of our trade and industrial policies
By Ryan Chittum
July 9, 2010 10:26 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Extend and Pretend, Low Paid U.S. Autoworkers, BP
By Ryan Chittum
July 8, 2010 06:41 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Picturing Kagan’s Future
By Joel Meares
July 8, 2010 04:57 PM
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The Observatory
Shameful Obstinacy at The Sunday Times Paper finally retracts Amazongate, aggressive-blondes articles
July 8, 2010 04:00 PM Comments (15)
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The Audit
Business Journalism on Prozac A look at an issue of Fortune
By Ryan Chittum
July 8, 2010 02:44 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Truth Be Told Huffington's post on PolitiFact misses the mark
By Joel Meares
July 8, 2010 02:40 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
CNN’s Gutless Firing
July 8, 2010 12:46 PM Comments (26)
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Campaign Desk
“Supreme Court Nomination Hearings Are Funny Things” Enough already about Elena Kagan's sense of humor
By Joel Meares
July 8, 2010 12:36 PM
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The News Frontier
Can This Headline Save the News? The perils of the bait-and-switch headline
July 8, 2010 10:56 AM
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Tell the People? Social Security is the third rail for the MSM
July 8, 2010 10:01 AM Comments (22)
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The Observatory
Uproar at ScienceBlogs.com Protesting Pepsi’s new nutrition blog, writers defect from respected site
July 8, 2010 08:00 AM
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Second Read
The Ordinary Jungle A not-so-awed explorer who was unafraid to say so
July 8, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Study Hall, BP’s Skimpy Skimmers, “Resource Extraction”
By Ryan Chittum
July 8, 2010 01:06 AM Comments (2)
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The Observatory
Wanted: Climate Front-Pager Reviews vindicating scientists get strong blog coverage, but more high-profile stories are needed
July 7, 2010 04:30 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
The Passing of Dr. Robert Butler And what he meant for journalists and journalism
July 7, 2010 12:34 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Lohan Sentenced To… OMG, Her Fingernail!?!
July 7, 2010 11:41 AM
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Behind the News
Chris Welles on Reporting Why I would rather report—at fifty—than edit at any age
By Chris Welles
July 7, 2010 10:53 AM Comments (9)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Cohan’s Messy Goldman Apology Faulty logic on too big to fail
By Ryan Chittum
July 7, 2010 10:48 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
“Being Media Savvy Requires More Than Just Attention-Grabbing”?
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It’s About Idiosyncrasy, Not Ideology Learning to live with opinions at the Post
By Holly Yeager
July 7, 2010 09:05 AM Comments (5)
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Audit Notes: Change Deferred, Bailout Blues, Reporting on BP
By Ryan Chittum
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The Audit
Woot Raises a Zombie Lie From the Dead (Again) The AP does not charge bloggers to quote its stories
By Ryan Chittum
July 6, 2010 08:23 PM Comments (10)
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Circling Back on the Orszag Story
By Holly Yeager
July 6, 2010 12:49 PM Comments (6)
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The Research Report
Philadelphia Story A study in the City of Brotherly Love suggests what's been lost, and what can be gained
By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend
July 6, 2010 12:36 PM
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Brief Encounters Short reviews of a classic novel about journalism and a biography of a pioneering female reporter
By James Boylan
July 6, 2010 12:27 PM
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The Kicker
Oil Spill Touches Texas (“What’s Going Where?”)
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After the Storm What happens to the journalists who get pushed out of their newsrooms?
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Language Corner
The ‘-ize’ Have It A popular suffix gets even more so
July 6, 2010 11:38 AM
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Behind the News
Lone Star Trailblazer Video A look inside the Texas Tribune
By Jake Batsell
July 6, 2010 10:00 AM
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The Audit, The Observatory
ProPublica and Frontline with a Save on BP Another giant toxic emission from the oil giant goes undernoticed until now
By Ryan Chittum
July 6, 2010 08:27 AM Comments (2)
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Feature
Lone Star Trailblazer Will the Texas Tribune transform Texas journalism?
By Jake Batsell
July 6, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Maiden Lane, AIG Off Easy, Spitzer
By Ryan Chittum
July 2, 2010 05:27 PM Comments (5)
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Short Takes
Bold Move Gannett makes a surprising venture into the online world
By Janet Paskin
July 2, 2010 03:18 PM
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Short Takes
Is the End Nigh? A libel reform campaign makes great strides in Great Britain
July 2, 2010 02:55 PM
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Editorial
Shield Abuse A bogus argument stretches a good law to the breaking point
By The Editors
July 2, 2010 02:50 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Influence Game NYT's Podesta profile lets lobbyist define the terms
By Holly Yeager
July 2, 2010 02:37 PM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Google’s Monopoly Money The onus ought to be on the search giant to justify why it should be allowed to acquire businesses
By Ryan Chittum
July 2, 2010 11:39 AM
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Radical Transparency at Daily Kos Blog owns up to inaccurate polling
July 2, 2010 10:53 AM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
One of these things is not like the others
July 2, 2010 10:51 AM
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Behind the News
Yellow Card for South African Media Papers have offered little critical coverage of the World Cup and its ramifications
July 2, 2010 09:55 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Up the Chain at BP, Bank Blinkers, Goldman’s Board
By Ryan Chittum
July 1, 2010 08:54 PM
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The Audit
Mom, Apple Pie, and… Credit-Default Swaps?
By Ryan Chittum
July 1, 2010 07:28 PM
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On the Job
A World of Trouble Who’s a journalist? In today’s war zones, the answer matters.
By Shahan Mufti
July 1, 2010 05:53 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Audit D.C. Notes: Journal Overreach, Overjoyed in Auckland, the New Blue Collar
By Holly Yeager
July 1, 2010 04:43 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Get Out of Her Hair Sadly, NPR profile focuses on Fiorina’s coiffure rather than climate gaffe
By Sam Kornell
July 1, 2010 03:42 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Up and Down on the Bayou A snapshot of The Times-Picayune five years after Katrina
July 1, 2010 01:01 PM Comments (1)
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Review
Around the Bend A new book charts Commentary’s slide into irrelevance
By Ethan Porter
July 1, 2010 12:41 PM
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Campaign Desk
A McChrystal Chill? Don’t Bet On It The military needs the press, and smart soldiers (still) understand that
By Paul McLeary
July 1, 2010 10:53 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
NPR, HOAs, and Nonjudicial Foreclosures
By Ryan Chittum
July 1, 2010 10:04 AM Comments (9)
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Behind the News
Legal Aid Yale’s Jack Balkin and Nabiha Syed discuss a new effort to protect press freedoms
July 1, 2010 08:00 AM
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Feature
Message Control Is Obama’s White House tighter than Bush’s?
July 1, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (9)
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