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May 2007

Quitting Time

In Venezuela, one newspaper exemplifies a bad trend

By Rachel Jones Thu 31 May 2007 01:59 PM Al Gore's press problem

It's baaaack....

By Paul McLeary Thu 31 May 2007 01:43 PM A word about leadership

And one reason Dow Jones lost the war

By Dean Starkman Thu 31 May 2007 01:19 PM And now for something completly different

Gates on the case

By Paul McLeary Thu 31 May 2007 12:17 PM Blogs Heat Up over Global Warming

Here we go...

By Eric Hirsch Thu 31 May 2007 12:16 PM Kill your television

Al Gore says so!

By Gal Beckerman Thu 31 May 2007 11:09 AM Water Under the Dam? Hardly.

The fight for water

By Curtis Brainard Thu 31 May 2007 10:56 AM NYT's "Basics" column needs an editor

Back to basics

By Curtis Brainard Wed 30 May 2007 01:01 PM The "Law & Order" candidate

Fred Thompson in?

By Eric Hirsch Wed 30 May 2007 12:48 PM More bad news from Mexico

Things are looking rough

By Paul McLeary Wed 30 May 2007 11:53 AM Of Lepers and Lou Dobbs

Dobbs has a leprosy problem

By Dean Starkman Wed 30 May 2007 10:30 AM Three year-old scandal made new!

Somehow, we still care...

By Paul McLeary Tue 29 May 2007 02:18 PM Mexican newsrooms

Worse than you think

By Paul McLeary Tue 29 May 2007 01:58 PM Cleeland lets loose

Times takes it on the chin

By Gal Beckerman Tue 29 May 2007 12:20 PM Bloggers dissect Sheehan

Things get ugly

By Eric Hirsch Tue 29 May 2007 11:46 AM Salon's Greenwald is wrong about Klein

Though Klein was misleading

By Paul McLeary Fri 25 May 2007 02:36 PM Memorial day evergreen

Same as it ever was

By Gal Beckerman Fri 25 May 2007 02:17 PM Blogging on war spending

Blog report

By Eric Hirsch Fri 25 May 2007 01:25 PM And they're off!

Horse race coverage dominates

By Paul McLeary Fri 25 May 2007 11:20 AM Piling on

Reporters who don't hate America

By Paul McLeary Thu 24 May 2007 03:25 PM Olbermann stirs the pot

Blogs v. Dems

By Eric Hirsch Thu 24 May 2007 12:32 PM Stein on stocks

They're like Nazis!

By Gal Beckerman Thu 24 May 2007 11:53 AM Blog fight!

Droppin' the gloves

By Paul McLeary Thu 24 May 2007 11:29 AM Live and Direct

Iraq dispatch

By Gal Beckerman Wed 23 May 2007 02:35 PM Drunk Germans, tattooed fish

News that ain't

By Paul McLeary Wed 23 May 2007 01:05 PM In Maysan province, the press misses an opportunity to go deep

Yon picks up the slack

By Paul McLeary Wed 23 May 2007 12:31 PM A Subversive Press? Covert Operations in Iran

Bloggers react to ABC's "covert operations" scoop

By Eric Hirsch Wed 23 May 2007 12:21 PM FT on DJ

Don't do us any favors

By Dean Starkman Wed 23 May 2007 11:45 AM A Good One on Drug Trials

Big Pharma

By Dean Starkman Wed 23 May 2007 11:20 AM Not Your Grandma's Science Fair

CNN stands out

By Curtis Brainard Wed 23 May 2007 10:57 AM Sports pages vs. military reporting

One of these things is not like the other...

By Paul McLeary Tue 22 May 2007 04:14 PM Girl goes missing, news peg found

The Brits are no better off than we are

By Paul McLeary Tue 22 May 2007 03:12 PM 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 Tue 22 May 2007 01:37 PM Iraq beats Iraq

News coverage moves from D.C. to Baghdad

By Paul McLeary Tue 22 May 2007 12:29 PM We have been promised monsters!

But where are they?

By Curtis Brainard Mon 21 May 2007 04:44 PM Gore on the horse race

More of the same

By Gal Beckerman Mon 21 May 2007 01:45 PM More Iraqi journos killed

Another young journalist snuffed out

By Paul McLeary Mon 21 May 2007 12:44 PM Bloggers vs. book reviewers

Round II!

By Gal Beckerman Mon 21 May 2007 12:11 PM The best source of environmental stories that you’ve never heard of

What you should know about "green" ads.

By Curtis Brainard Mon 21 May 2007 08:39 AM How often does the press beat the SEC to accounting fraud stories?

Not very often

By Tony Dokoupil Mon 21 May 2007 07:36 AM The Tragedy of Peter Kann

A devoted son of Dow Jones brings down the company.

By Dean Starkman Mon 21 May 2007 07:04 AM Yeah, Wolfie is out, stop cheering

Will the press be as interested in Wolfowitz's replacement as it was with him?

By Gal Beckerman Fri 18 May 2007 05:44 PM Don't believe the hype

A day at the Personal Democracy Forum

By Paul McLeary Fri 18 May 2007 05:02 PM Banning the bad news in Iraq

The Iraqi government is chasing journalists away from covering stories.

By Paul McLeary Wed 16 May 2007 02:05 PM 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 Tue 15 May 2007 03:39 PM 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 Mon 14 May 2007 03:43 PM 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 Fri 11 May 2007 01:49 PM 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 Fri 11 May 2007 10:47 AM 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 Thu 10 May 2007 03:17 PM 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 Thu 10 May 2007 02:44 PM The Shield Bearer

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

By Bree Nordenson Thu 10 May 2007 01:02 PM 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 Wed 9 May 2007 02:18 PM 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 Tue 8 May 2007 04:49 PM 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 Tue 8 May 2007 04:12 PM Unspoken

Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse

By Judith Matloff Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM Superiority Complex

Why the Brits think they’re better

By Susan Hansen Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM Soldiers’ Stories

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

By Alia Malek Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM The Curious Case of Victor Pey

Why the Chilean government wants to keep a friendly newspaper shuttered.

By John Dinges Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM Rules of Engagement

A year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.

By John Laurence Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM New Grub Street

How did ethics become a staple of contemporary food writing?

By Christopher Shea Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM 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 Mon 7 May 2007 03:32 PM 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 Fri 4 May 2007 12:46 PM Is This What the Army Thinks of Us?

A new Army manual paints American reporters as a national security threat.

By Paul McLeary Thu 3 May 2007 02:17 PM 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 Thu 3 May 2007 10:10 AM The End of Dow Jones

Covering Your Own Downfall

By Dean Starkman Wed 2 May 2007 02:39 PM Congested Coverage

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

By Curtis Brainard Wed 2 May 2007 12:30 PM The Organic Link Between Books and Newspapers

Do newspapers really want to sacrifice the cultural authority that book reviews provide?

By Gal Beckerman Tue 1 May 2007 01:45 PM

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