Monthly Archive

May 2007

• Behind the News

  Quitting Time In Venezuela, one newspaper exemplifies a bad trend

  By Rachel Jones

  May 31, 2007 01:59 PM

• Behind the News

  Al Gore’s press problem It's baaaack....

  By Paul McLeary

  May 31, 2007 01:43 PM Comments (6)

• The Audit

  A word about leadership And one reason Dow Jones lost the war

  By Dean Starkman

  May 31, 2007 01:19 PM

• The Kicker

  And now for something completly different

  By Paul McLeary

  May 31, 2007 12:17 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Blogs Heat Up over Global Warming Here we go...

  By Eric Hirsch

  May 31, 2007 12:16 PM

• The Kicker

  Kill your television

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 31, 2007 11:09 AM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Water Under the Dam? Hardly. The fight for water

  By Curtis Brainard

  May 31, 2007 10:56 AM

• Behind the News

  NYT’s “Basics” column needs an editor Back to basics

  By Curtis Brainard

  May 30, 2007 01:01 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  The “Law & Order” candidate Fred Thompson in?

  By Eric Hirsch

  May 30, 2007 12:48 PM

• The Kicker

  More bad news from Mexico

  By Paul McLeary

  May 30, 2007 11:53 AM

• The Audit

  Of Lepers and Lou Dobbs Dobbs has a leprosy problem

  By Dean Starkman

  May 30, 2007 10:30 AM

• The Kicker

  Three year-old scandal made new!

  By Paul McLeary

  May 29, 2007 02:18 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  Mexican newsrooms

  By Paul McLeary

  May 29, 2007 01:58 PM

• The Kicker

  Cleeland lets loose

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 29, 2007 12:20 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers dissect Sheehan Things get ugly

  By Eric Hirsch

  May 29, 2007 11:46 AM

• Behind the News

  Salon’s Greenwald is wrong about Klein Though Klein was misleading

  By Paul McLeary

  May 25, 2007 02:36 PM Comments (12)

• The Kicker

  Memorial day evergreen

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 25, 2007 02:17 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Blogging on war spending Blog report

  By Eric Hirsch

  May 25, 2007 01:25 PM

• The Kicker

  And they’re off!

  By Paul McLeary

  May 25, 2007 11:20 AM Comments (6)

• The Kicker

  Piling on

  By Paul McLeary

  May 24, 2007 03:25 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Olbermann stirs the pot Blogs v. Dems

  By Eric Hirsch

  May 24, 2007 12:32 PM

• The Kicker

  Stein on stocks

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 24, 2007 11:53 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Blog fight!

  By Paul McLeary

  May 24, 2007 11:29 AM

• The Kicker

  Live and Direct

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 23, 2007 02:35 PM

• The Kicker

  Drunk Germans, tattooed fish

  By Paul McLeary

  May 23, 2007 01:05 PM

• Behind the News

  In Maysan province, the press misses an opportunity to go deep Yon picks up the slack

  By Paul McLeary

  May 23, 2007 12:31 PM

• Behind the News

  A Subversive Press? Covert Operations in Iran Bloggers react to ABC's "covert operations" scoop

  By Eric Hirsch

  May 23, 2007 12:21 PM

• The Kicker

  FT on DJ

  By Dean Starkman

  May 23, 2007 11:45 AM

• The Kicker

  A Good One on Drug Trials

  By Dean Starkman

  May 23, 2007 11:20 AM

• The Kicker

  Not Your Grandma’s Science Fair

  By Curtis Brainard

  May 23, 2007 10:57 AM

• The Kicker

  Sports pages vs. military reporting

  By Paul McLeary

  May 22, 2007 04:14 PM

• The Kicker

  Girl goes missing, news peg found

  By Paul McLeary

  May 22, 2007 03:12 PM

• Politics

  Smart people gather to talk about politics and the Web, nothing interesting is said Blogging confabs bring out the smart guys, but few new ideas are ever aired.

  By Paul McLeary

  May 22, 2007 01:37 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Iraq beats Iraq

  By Paul McLeary

  May 22, 2007 12:29 PM

• The Kicker

  We have been promised monsters!

  By Curtis Brainard

  May 21, 2007 04:44 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Gore on the horse race

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 21, 2007 01:45 PM

• The Kicker

  More Iraqi journos killed

  By Paul McLeary

  May 21, 2007 12:44 PM

• The Kicker

  Bloggers vs. book reviewers

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 21, 2007 12:11 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  The best source of environmental stories that you’ve never heard of What you should know about "green" ads.

  By Curtis Brainard

  May 21, 2007 08:39 AM

• The Audit

  How often does the press beat the SEC to accounting fraud stories? Not very often

  By Tony Dokoupil

  May 21, 2007 07:36 AM Comments (5)

• The Audit

  The Tragedy of Peter Kann A devoted son of Dow Jones brings down the company.

  By Dean Starkman

  May 21, 2007 07:04 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Yeah, Wolfie is out, stop cheering

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 18, 2007 05:44 PM

• The Kicker

  Don’t believe the hype

  By Paul McLeary

  May 18, 2007 05:02 PM

• Politics

  Banning the bad news in Iraq The Iraqi government is chasing journalists away from covering stories.

  By Paul McLeary

  May 16, 2007 02:05 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  If the networks and the Pentagon hate it, ‘Hometown Baghdad’ is surely must-see TV Pentagon stomps on YouTube, cutting off an unvarnished look at the war.

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 15, 2007 03:39 PM Comments (9)

• Politics

  Opposition research, tall tales, and the dregs of campaign reporting Turnabout might be fair play, but it doesn't make for good journalism.

  By Paul McLeary

  May 14, 2007 03:43 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  A Moment in the Demise of Nightline A "debate" over the existence of God reveals the sad state of the nightly news, as guided by the steady hand of Martin Bashir.

  By Paul McLeary

  May 11, 2007 01:49 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Newspapers Are Killing Cartoonists—Another Brilliant Business Move Have editorial cartoons been silenced by "fearful editors" who want, among other things, to "appease conservatives"?

  By Tony Dokoupil

  May 11, 2007 10:47 AM Comments (2)

• Politics

  Ooooooh, Web Ads! Web ads are great, but the political battles will still be fought, for better or worse, in the old media.

  By Paul McLeary

  May 10, 2007 03:17 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  What’s Good For the Bancrofts Is Bad for the Journal The Wall Street Journal's parent has been paying outsized cash dividends, to the primary benefit of the controlling Bancroft family, instead of reinvesting to keep the company independent of Murdoch and other predators.

  By Dean Starkman

  May 10, 2007 02:44 PM Comments (1)

• Feature

  The Shield Bearer How a conservative congressman from Indiana became journalism’s best ally in the fight to protect anonymous sources.

  By Bree Nordenson

  May 10, 2007 01:02 PM

• Behind the News

  Will Fort Dix plotters turn out to be the next ‘Seas of David’? Not all terror plots are created equal, as we've found out over the last several years.

  By Paul McLeary

  May 09, 2007 02:18 PM Comments (5)

• The Audit

  Steiger Sat On What?! Rupert Murdoch's "reassuring" e-mail about a live offer for the Wall Street Journal's parent creates a journalistic fiasco. Thanks, Rupert. We feel better already.

  By Dean Starkman

  May 08, 2007 04:49 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Look Who’s Dining with the Queen More mixing of reporters with politicians over a polite dinner shouldn't sit well with the public.

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 08, 2007 04:12 PM Comments (3)

• On the Job

  Unspoken Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse

  By Judith Matloff

  May 08, 2007 08:30 AM

• Behind the News

  Superiority Complex Why the Brits think they’re better

  By Susan Hansen

  May 08, 2007 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Soldiers’ Stories What fires up the journalists at Military Times is the vulnerability of the community they cover

  By Alia Malek

  May 08, 2007 08:30 AM

• Feature

  The Curious Case of Victor Pey Why the Chilean government wants to keep a friendly newspaper shuttered.

  By John Dinges

  May 08, 2007 08:30 AM

• Cover Story

  Rules of Engagement A year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.

  By John Laurence

  May 08, 2007 08:30 AM

• Essay

  New Grub Street How did ethics become a staple of contemporary food writing?

  By Christopher Shea

  May 08, 2007 08:30 AM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  Hansen v. Cockburn in the The Nation, With Nothing at Stake The global warming debate goes nowhere in this slow-motion battle of wits.

  By Curtis Brainard

  May 07, 2007 03:32 PM

• Behind the News

  A New Shield Law in Washington State The author of the nation's thirty-second state law protecting journalists' confidential sources says it should boost prospects for a federal version.

  By Bree Nordenson

  May 04, 2007 12:46 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Is This What the Army Thinks of Us? A new Army manual paints American reporters as a national security threat.

  By Paul McLeary

  May 03, 2007 02:17 PM Comments (17)

• The Audit

  The Trouble With Insurance Reporting The business press accepts insurance industry assumptions that are utterly bogus—and, yes, it matters a lot.

  By Dean Starkman

  May 03, 2007 10:10 AM

• The Audit

  The End of Dow Jones Covering Your Own Downfall

  By Dean Starkman

  May 02, 2007 02:39 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  Congested Coverage Forget "congestion pricing," PlaNYC needs the press’s deep and sustained attention.

  By Curtis Brainard

  May 02, 2007 12:30 PM

• Behind the News

  The Organic Link Between Books and Newspapers Do newspapers really want to sacrifice the cultural authority that book reviews provide?

  By Gal Beckerman

  May 01, 2007 01:45 PM

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