Monthly Archive
March 2009
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The Kicker
Oh, Choot
By Megan Garber
March 31, 2009 04:45 PM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
Sticking It to Detroit HuffPo, others fixate on an autos vs. banks narrative
By Jane Kim
March 31, 2009 04:15 PM Comments (3)
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Language Corner
Firing Blanks Is everyone who loses a job “fired”?
March 31, 2009 03:54 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Fresno Bee On the Ground with the New Joads
By Ryan Chittum
March 31, 2009 02:03 PM Comments (1)
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News Meeting
Say Uncle (Sam) What would government tax subsidies mean for journalism?
By The Editors
March 31, 2009 12:59 PM Comments (48)
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The Kicker
No Twittering In The Soloist
March 31, 2009 12:56 PM Comments (1)
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The Observatory
For the Birds? Local outlets miss an opportunity for regional conservation coverage
March 31, 2009 11:18 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Boston Globe Is Excellent on Pension Insurer’s Bad Bets
By Ryan Chittum
March 31, 2009 11:11 AM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
“I Know That’s English Online, But…”
March 31, 2009 10:11 AM
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The Kicker
“A Liberal’s Conservative” for the NYT
March 31, 2009 09:27 AM
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The Audit
BusinessWeek: Unemployment’s Worse Than You Think
By Ryan Chittum
March 31, 2009 08:48 AM
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The Audit
Thinning Out the Journal’s Front Page
By Ryan Chittum
March 30, 2009 11:19 PM
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The Kicker
Poll Dancing
By Megan Garber
March 30, 2009 05:29 PM
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The Kicker
Krugman’s Warning
March 30, 2009 04:00 PM
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The Kicker
Interview “Tinkering”
March 30, 2009 02:48 PM
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Behind the News
Fox Nation: A Place for Heroes News aggregation gets a Norquistian makeover
By Megan Garber
March 30, 2009 02:15 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Non-Responsive News organizations hampered New Hampshire poll inquiry
March 30, 2009 01:54 PM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Journal Games Out Depression Scenarios
By Ryan Chittum
March 30, 2009 01:52 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
What Would “A Mix Between The Huffington Post and Drudge” Look Like?
March 30, 2009 01:05 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Chyron, Misunderstood
March 30, 2009 12:46 PM
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Behind the News
The Mail Reviewing recent issues of Sojourners, America, The Times of Acadiana, and more
By CJR Staff
March 30, 2009 12:22 PM
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The Kicker
Sanguine Sallys, Nervous Nellies
By Megan Garber
March 30, 2009 11:50 AM
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The Kicker
“Cud Chewers” And “Cordwood” on Cable
March 30, 2009 10:20 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
“Some Wonder…”
March 30, 2009 09:58 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Some Big Dots to Connect Which could tell who really will pay for health reform
March 30, 2009 09:26 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
NYT Profiles Fox News’s “Rodeo Clown”
March 30, 2009 09:23 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
Baucus Watch, Part VII Does he or doesn’t he support a public plan?
March 30, 2009 09:18 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg on Papering Over Banks’ Losses
By Ryan Chittum
March 30, 2009 09:18 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The Week that Was: In Which Chaos, Indeed, Ensued The week in new media
By Megan Garber
March 27, 2009 04:47 PM
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Campaign Desk
Branding Gillibrand NYT sketches with too loose a hand on NY senator and big tobacco story
By Jane Kim
March 27, 2009 04:34 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
“What do you do with 3,000 empty metal boxes?”
By Megan Garber
March 27, 2009 04:32 PM Comments (2)
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The Audit
NYT: Heads They Win, Tails They Win a Bit Less
By Ryan Chittum
March 27, 2009 02:26 PM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
Talk of the Town Hall How the media covered yesterday's online town hall
By Katia Bachko
March 27, 2009 02:24 PM
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The Audit
Just What’s Left in the Metro Dailies?
By Ryan Chittum
March 27, 2009 01:17 PM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Politico’s “Snuggie” Article: An Ontological Argument
By Megan Garber
March 27, 2009 12:06 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit
WaPo Scoop Shows Government’s Bailout Conflicts
By Ryan Chittum
March 27, 2009 11:44 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Professor Obama The press goes for style over substance on the press conferences
By Katia Bachko
March 27, 2009 11:33 AM Comments (5)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Violating the “Contract of Correction” Corrections requests get backlogged at The Washington Post
March 27, 2009 11:10 AM
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The Kicker
Chez Stephanopoulos
By Megan Garber
March 27, 2009 09:47 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Journal’s Good Effort on the Immigration Backlash
By Ryan Chittum
March 27, 2009 09:05 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Casper the Friendly Tweet
By Megan Garber
March 27, 2009 09:02 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
This is Balance?
By Katia Bachko
March 26, 2009 05:28 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Milwaukee J-S Exposes Criminals in the Mortgage Biz
By Ryan Chittum
March 26, 2009 05:22 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
The ‘Professor’ Calms the Crowd Press works (and reworks) the outrage narrative
By Jane Kim
March 26, 2009 04:48 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Mission Accomplished? Why the AFT's compromise won't end the education wars
By Daniel Luzer
March 26, 2009 04:04 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Photo of the Day
By Megan Garber
March 26, 2009 03:38 PM Comments (10)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit, Transparency
NYT Sues Fed and Treasury
By Ryan Chittum
March 26, 2009 01:44 PM
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Campaign Desk
Live-Blogging Obama’s Online Town Hall Starting 11:30 AM EST
By The Editors
March 26, 2009 11:35 AM Comments (36)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Holder Has A New FOIA Policy Will he apply it to old cases?
March 26, 2009 11:22 AM
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The Audit
The “Other” Post Gets a Great Scoop
By Ryan Chittum
March 26, 2009 09:40 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Journal Inside the AIG Wagon-Circling
By Ryan Chittum
March 26, 2009 08:51 AM Comments (7)
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Editorial
Reasons to Believe Journalism's search for a support system
By The Editors
March 26, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Teleprompter Talks Back
March 25, 2009 04:01 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
A Presidency “Defined” (So Soon?)
March 25, 2009 02:34 PM Comments (1)
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Feature
A Social-Network Solution How investigative reporting got back on its feet
March 25, 2009 02:15 PM Comments (10)
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The Observatory
Post-Intelligent Before its collapse, the P-I had a history of strong science reporting
March 25, 2009 12:43 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk
President Leaves Reporters & Commentators “Restless,” “Bor[ed]” Roundup of presidential press conference reports
March 25, 2009 12:15 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
CJR Audio: The Future of Investigative Journalism A discussion on the future of the journalistic watchdog
By The Editors
March 25, 2009 12:03 PM
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The Audit
The WSJ and the Limits of a “No Jumps” Policy Dumbing down and devaluing The Wall Street Journal
By Ryan Chittum
March 25, 2009 10:49 AM Comments (2)
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Page Views
Numbers Game The long, unsavory, and amusing history of the American lottery
March 25, 2009 10:20 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Insurers Have a New Idea Is it really for real?
March 25, 2009 09:52 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
What Are Insurers Up To? It depends on whose story you read
March 25, 2009 09:43 AM
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Campaign Desk
Live-Blogging Blago’s Radio Show Until 11 AM EST
By The Editors
March 25, 2009 09:39 AM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk
Play the “Blago in the Morning” (Coffee) Drinking Game! Rod on the radio
By Megan Garber
March 25, 2009 09:05 AM
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The Audit
FT on the Death of the Stocks Religion
By Ryan Chittum
March 25, 2009 09:03 AM
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The Kicker
“Progress,” “Patience”
March 25, 2009 08:46 AM
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The Kicker
“Detached, Bite-Sized Yippety-Yap!”
By Megan Garber
March 24, 2009 11:29 PM
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Campaign Desk
Live-Blogging Tonight’s Presidential Press Conference
By The Editors
March 24, 2009 07:30 PM Comments (43)
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Feature
Old Hands, New Voice How NGOs learned to do news
March 24, 2009 05:55 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Chuckle-Monster Headlines turn the president's laugh into a “gaffe”
By Jane Kim
March 24, 2009 04:16 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Crawford to Be Obama’s Special Asst for Science, Tech, and Innovation Policy
By Megan Garber
March 24, 2009 03:09 PM
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The Kicker
LeBron James Has His Pre-Game Powder Toss…
March 24, 2009 03:03 PM
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The Kicker
Ask The President…about Student Loan Forgiveness
By Megan Garber
March 24, 2009 02:59 PM
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The Kicker
Dow Low, Sugar High
March 24, 2009 01:54 PM Comments (2)
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Language Corner
Stop, Fief! A long-term lease on a made-up word
March 24, 2009 01:25 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Klein: “Get Pissed At… Media Culture”
March 24, 2009 01:06 PM
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News Meeting
Peer Presser What's the point of all these presidential press conferences?
By The Editors
March 24, 2009 12:58 PM Comments (23)
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The Kicker
Tonight: Will Obama Sell The Bank Plan? Make Gaffes? Get Ratings?
March 24, 2009 12:24 PM
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The Audit
Tough-Talking BofA Analyst Yesterday, Gone Today
By Ryan Chittum
March 24, 2009 11:55 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Morning Blago
March 24, 2009 10:54 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Forget Michelle’s Arms
By Katia Bachko
March 24, 2009 10:19 AM
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Full Court Press
Winners & Sinners Kaiser on Goldberger, Cohen, Greenwald, Wolff, and more
March 24, 2009 09:23 AM
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The Audit
Bloomberg: The Real AIG Bonus Scandal
By Ryan Chittum
March 24, 2009 09:08 AM Comments (5)
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Full Court Press, Transparency
Above the Fold: The Torture Report Mark Danner rakes Guantánamo's muck
March 23, 2009 06:32 PM Comments (3)
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Feature
Unchaining the Monitor How an early Web-first strategy worked out
By John Yemma
March 23, 2009 06:07 PM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
On Nieman, On Narrative Notes from the Nieman Narrative Conference 2009
By Megan Garber
March 23, 2009 05:21 PM Comments (4)
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The Audit
Speedy Kills A new Journal edict to employees will hurt the paper
March 23, 2009 03:58 PM Comments (3)
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The Audit
The Core Question: What’s This Junk Really Worth?
By Ryan Chittum
March 23, 2009 03:04 PM
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The Kicker
Word Association
March 23, 2009 02:29 PM
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Campaign Desk
Massachusetts Health Reform Archive An archive of all entries in Trudy Lieberman’s series
March 23, 2009 02:05 PM
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The Kicker
Another O’Reilly “Ambush”
March 23, 2009 01:54 PM
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The Observatory
Catastrophe in Context Coverage of Copenhagen climate summit offers a teaching moment
By Mason Inman
March 23, 2009 01:40 PM
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The Kicker
NYT on Spontaneous Story Combustion
March 23, 2009 01:01 PM
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The Audit
ABC Scoop: JPMorgan Still in the Gilded Bubble
By Ryan Chittum
March 23, 2009 01:01 PM
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I Critical analysis begins to trickle in
March 23, 2009 12:48 PM Comments (7)
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The Audit
WSJ’s Good Nuts-and-Bolts Reporting
By Ryan Chittum
March 23, 2009 10:02 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Getting To Know Douthat
March 23, 2009 09:56 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Hoyt: Still Too Many Anonymous Sources in NYT
March 23, 2009 09:14 AM
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The Audit
NYT lets NBC’s Zucker Spin Away
By Ryan Chittum
March 23, 2009 08:52 AM Comments (23)
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Feature
So Cool How an economic weather map changed the climate
March 22, 2009 08:30 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Twittering Nieman
By Megan Garber
March 21, 2009 09:00 AM
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Feature
The New Niche How tax incentives and technology came to the rescue
March 21, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Observatory
Nature’s Artificial Divide The best hope for science journalism is a marriage of new and old media
March 20, 2009 07:28 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The Week that Was: In Which We Said Goodnight, and Good Luck The week in new media
By Megan Garber
March 20, 2009 04:58 PM
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The Kicker
Greatest Achievements in Journalism
By Katia Bachko
March 20, 2009 03:07 PM
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The Audit
Journal: Credit Raters In Line for “Windfall”
By Ryan Chittum
March 20, 2009 01:22 PM
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The Kicker
Ratings Game
By Katia Bachko
March 20, 2009 12:53 PM
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The Kicker
Have Words. Will Choose.
By Jane Kim
March 20, 2009 12:47 PM Comments (1)
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Essay
In the Foothills of Change Foreign coverage seems doomed, but it's only just begun
March 20, 2009 12:36 PM
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The Kicker
Day To-day
By Jane Kim
March 20, 2009 11:50 AM
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The Kicker
Families in Crisis
By Katia Bachko
March 20, 2009 11:34 AM
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Regret the Error
Comedy of Errors Comedians and the corrections beat
March 20, 2009 10:37 AM
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The Kicker
Aisle Love You Forever
By Jane Kim
March 20, 2009 10:34 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
NYT on the Staggering Manufacturing Economy
By Ryan Chittum
March 20, 2009 09:24 AM
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Feature
No Profit, No Problem How a new city daily (on newsprint!) rolled
March 20, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Bloomberg’s Naked-Short Story Shows Stretch Marks
By Ryan Chittum
March 19, 2009 04:23 PM Comments (44)
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Feature
Rise of the Reader How books got wings
By Peter Osnos
March 19, 2009 04:20 PM
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The Audit
NPR Shows Why Newspapers Should Charge Online
By Ryan Chittum
March 19, 2009 03:24 PM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Audit On the Air
By Ryan Chittum
March 19, 2009 02:55 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
FOIA’s Hidden Exemptions A new bill tries to bring them into the sunshine
March 19, 2009 02:28 PM
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The Kicker, Transparency
New FOIA Guidance Forseen
March 19, 2009 02:22 PM
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The Kicker
Presidential Press Conference, Pro-Am Edition
By Megan Garber
March 19, 2009 01:18 PM
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Behind the News
Gender Gap Gone? Women reign at 2009 Goldsmith investigative reporting awards
March 19, 2009 01:11 PM Comments (4)
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The Audit
CNBC’s Kudlow: On-Air Lawbreaker?
By Ryan Chittum
March 19, 2009 12:14 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Convergence at CUNY
By Megan Garber
March 19, 2009 11:58 AM
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Campaign Desk
Grassley to Limbaugh: Keep Distorting Health Reform Iowa senator "encourages" conservative commentators
By Lester Feder
March 19, 2009 11:57 AM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Twitter Is The New Beatles
March 19, 2009 11:55 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Profiles of Power New sites seek to map the mighty
By Kate Klonick
March 19, 2009 11:34 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Flawed Reporting On “PCP, Klansmen, Child Molesters and Terrorists”
March 19, 2009 10:46 AM
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The Kicker
Michelle Under The Microscope
March 19, 2009 10:15 AM
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The Audit
Newsweek’s Irresponsible AIG Story
By Ryan Chittum
March 19, 2009 09:07 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Mad Men Post doesn't parse the practical political consequences of public anger
By Greg Marx
March 18, 2009 03:21 PM
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The Audit
On My Way to Glenn Beck’s Doom Bunker
By Ryan Chittum
March 18, 2009 03:01 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Laurel to The Philadelphia Inquirer For parsing preexisting conditions
March 18, 2009 02:20 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Short-Shrifting Seattle Regional reporting will suffer as the P-I moves online
March 18, 2009 02:15 PM
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The Audit
The Times Tweaks the Sage of Omaha
By Ryan Chittum
March 18, 2009 01:59 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Riding Herd
March 18, 2009 01:22 PM
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The Kicker
Gibson: Sports Journalism “So Difficult”
March 18, 2009 12:40 PM
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The Kicker
mine Can Be Yours (For Free)
March 18, 2009 11:40 AM
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Page Views
MySpace Odyssey The rise of a social-networking leviathan—and its uncertain future
By James Marcus
March 18, 2009 11:37 AM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
Table for Two? Taking a look at the remaining two-paper towns
By Jane Kim
March 18, 2009 11:16 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Journal Keeps the Heat on Exec Pay
By Ryan Chittum
March 18, 2009 10:59 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
On Bedstands At NYT’s Baghdad Bureau
March 18, 2009 10:50 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Proofreader to the Rescue
By Katia Bachko
March 18, 2009 10:38 AM
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The Audit
Leonhardt vs. Sorkin: Outside the Bubble
By Ryan Chittum
March 18, 2009 09:10 AM Comments (2)
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The Observatory
Obama on Stem Cells Journalists debate the new mix of science, politics, and ideology
March 18, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Which Magazines Deserve[d] To Die?
March 18, 2009 08:54 AM Comments (2)
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Feature
Two Tents How Politico might work out. Or not.
March 18, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (8)
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The Audit
WSJ’s Berman Calls Out the LBO’s
By Ryan Chittum
March 17, 2009 05:22 PM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
McCain/Stephanopoulos: The Twitterview The limits of character limits
By Megan Garber
March 17, 2009 04:49 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Fallows’s Advice For “Young Interviewers”
March 17, 2009 04:16 PM
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Behind the News
A Tale of Two Papers P-I offers reporting, San Francisco Chronicle offers flackery
March 17, 2009 03:52 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Isn’t She “Pretty” In Her “Big-And-Tall-Gal Wear?”
March 17, 2009 03:31 PM
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Language Corner
Waif Goodbye How various dictionaries define the word "waif"
March 17, 2009 03:07 PM Comments (5)
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News Meeting
Times Op-Ed Columnist Fantasy Draft How would you remake The New York Times op-ed page?
By The Editors
March 17, 2009 02:56 PM Comments (25)
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The Kicker, Transparency
A Campaign Promise Kept
March 17, 2009 02:14 PM
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The Kicker
Two Dowds (And an O’Dowd) Walk Into a Bar
March 17, 2009 01:08 PM
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The Audit
Time: CNBC Is Us (on Steroids)
By Ryan Chittum
March 17, 2009 12:33 PM
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The Kicker
Primary (Open) Sources
By Megan Garber
March 17, 2009 12:31 PM
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The Kicker
And…It Wasn’t “Greta Cameras”
March 17, 2009 12:06 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Sorkin: Contracts Sacrosanct, Except When They’re Not
By Ryan Chittum
March 17, 2009 11:34 AM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
To the P-I, on Its First Day Advice for Michelle Nicolosi from fellow online-only editors
By Megan Garber
March 17, 2009 10:20 AM
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The Kicker
Fox & Friends On The Rhetoric Beat?
March 17, 2009 09:59 AM Comments (5)
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Behind the News
Sleepless in Seattle Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffers on the demise of their newspaper
By Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff
March 17, 2009 09:13 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Sorkin and the Straw Man
By Ryan Chittum
March 17, 2009 09:10 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Farewell From “A Gut-Punched Newsroom”
March 17, 2009 08:53 AM
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The Kicker
Good Morning, Good Morning, to You…
By Megan Garber
March 16, 2009 06:05 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Supporting a Friend of Journalists Abroad
By Sara Germano
March 16, 2009 05:44 PM
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The Kicker
Time For One More Cramer/Stewart Analysis?
March 16, 2009 04:26 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
The Political Capital of “Public Anger” Rhetorical cliffhangers at The New York Times
By Jane Kim
March 16, 2009 04:08 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
“What Does That Mean, ‘Outrages Upon Human Dignity’?”
March 16, 2009 03:21 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
And…More on the P-I: From Its New Executive Producer
By Megan Garber
March 16, 2009 02:21 PM
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The Kicker
More on the P-I: Publisher’s Parting Words
By Megan Garber
March 16, 2009 01:53 PM
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The Audit
“Mean Street,” Indeed
By Ryan Chittum
March 16, 2009 01:46 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
P-I to Go Online-Only…Tomorrow
By Megan Garber
March 16, 2009 01:21 PM
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Behind the News
The Dirtiest, Filthiest, Most Offensive Pun You’ll Never Read! The sad saga of the Times's "grass-mud horse"
By Megan Garber
March 16, 2009 12:47 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Mocking A1…In Styles
March 16, 2009 11:07 AM
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The Kicker
Seattle P-I Globe Speaks
March 16, 2009 10:15 AM
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The Audit
Starkman on The NewsHour
By Ryan Chittum
March 16, 2009 10:11 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
“Keeping Abreast of Internet Chatter Not The Same As Bearing Witness”
March 16, 2009 09:44 AM
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Behind the News
State of the News Media: The Quiz PEJ tests the plus ça change approach to news
By Megan Garber
March 16, 2009 09:16 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
The Press Wins One on AIG
By Ryan Chittum
March 16, 2009 08:48 AM
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The Audit
Cramer v. Stewart Coverage Largely Misses The show capped a signal moment in the crisis
By Ryan Chittum
March 13, 2009 04:41 PM Comments (25)
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The Kicker
The Week That Was: In Which Our Limbo Continued
By Megan Garber
March 13, 2009 03:53 PM
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Full Court Press
Winners & Sinners Kaiser on Jon Stewart, Nathaniel Frank, David Gates and more
March 13, 2009 03:06 PM
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The Kicker
McCain and Stephanopoulos: The Twitterview! (No, Seriously!)
By Megan Garber
March 13, 2009 12:21 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Everything Old Is New Again When (extremely) old errors come back to haunt a paper
March 13, 2009 12:08 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
News Judgment
By Megan Garber
March 13, 2009 11:43 AM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk
The Chas Freeman Frenzy The New York Times sits out a contentious foreign policy story
By Greg Marx
March 13, 2009 11:41 AM Comments (4)
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The Observatory
Gallup: Many Americans Think Media Exaggerate Global Warming Latest poll also finds waning concern about climate change
March 13, 2009 11:16 AM Comments (18)
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
ProPublica Blogs the Stimulus
By Ryan Chittum
March 13, 2009 10:52 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Profile, Transparency
Carl Malamud, Public Printer An open source Presidential appointment campaign
March 13, 2009 10:07 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Stewart v Cramer: The “Potentially Important” Interview!
By Megan Garber
March 13, 2009 09:04 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
The Thirty-Three
By Megan Garber
March 13, 2009 08:52 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Bloomberg’s Weil Blows Up Moody’s
By Ryan Chittum
March 13, 2009 08:49 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
No Joking Matter
By Katia Bachko
March 12, 2009 05:10 PM
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Campaign Desk
Baby Elephants What's with all these really young GOP pundits?
By Daniel Luzer
March 12, 2009 03:49 PM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk
Time Offers Half a Loaf Great health care story—but then what?
March 12, 2009 01:29 PM Comments (5)
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The Audit
Live From the Madoff Trial: A Gas Run
By Ryan Chittum
March 12, 2009 11:33 AM
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The Kicker
The Break-Up Will Be Televised?
March 12, 2009 11:07 AM
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The Kicker
Three Years For Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
March 12, 2009 10:54 AM
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The Audit
Black Helicopters Spotted at WSJ Sister Network Glenn Beck and Fox go way, way off the deep end
By Ryan Chittum
March 12, 2009 10:53 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Carney, (R)evolved
March 12, 2009 10:01 AM
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The Kicker
Is This “Healthful?”
March 12, 2009 09:25 AM
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The Audit
Busting the Boiler Rooms: It’s About Time
By Ryan Chittum
March 12, 2009 09:06 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
How About a Light-Hearted Banking Story?
By Ryan Chittum
March 11, 2009 05:57 PM Comments (3)
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The Observatory
Ménage à Green Blogs Three new science and environment blogs get experimental
March 11, 2009 05:14 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Pork Nation The political media's frenzy over earmarks sort of misses the point
By Katia Bachko
March 11, 2009 04:51 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker, Transparency
FOIA Ombudsman gets $1 million
March 11, 2009 04:30 PM
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Meghan McCain Sees You “Sit[ting] Around,” WH Press Corps
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NYT Corrects Itself (102 Years, 11 Months On)
March 11, 2009 01:49 PM
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Language Corner
Wait Lifted Do you wait for, on, or upon someone?
March 11, 2009 01:44 PM
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Joan, The Teenage Socialist
March 11, 2009 10:59 AM
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Where Was The NYT on Freeman?
March 11, 2009 10:43 AM
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The Audit
“Cramer vs. Not Cramer” CNBC's court jester faces off with Jon Stewart
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March 11, 2009 10:42 AM Comments (7)
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First Lady On The Catwalk (Covered and Not)
March 11, 2009 09:31 AM
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The Audit
Leonhardt on the Looters Arguing that financiers' government "put" caused the crisis
By Ryan Chittum
March 11, 2009 09:25 AM Comments (3)
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Panel: The Future of Newspapers
By Megan Garber
March 10, 2009 07:01 PM
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Campaign Desk, Full Court Press
Above the Fold: The Whole Truth About Torture Is it "unfair" to single out Bush's torture advisors for prosecution?
March 10, 2009 06:35 PM
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The Audit
Fortune and the Christian Chicken Companies
By Ryan Chittum
March 10, 2009 04:43 PM Comments (1)
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News Meeting
Socialism Disorder What are some words that the press has trouble parsing?
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March 10, 2009 03:11 PM Comments (10)
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The Audit
FT Excels on Complexity and Capitalism’s Future
By Ryan Chittum
March 10, 2009 02:47 PM
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Credit The Airbrushers!
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The More We Twitter…
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“Maybe Jon Stewart Can Tell Us What The Markets Are Going To Do”
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The Audit
Journal with a Good Angle on the NYT Deal
By Ryan Chittum
March 10, 2009 10:03 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Housing Columnist Hasn’t Learned from the Bubble
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March 10, 2009 08:41 AM Comments (6)
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The Saddest Little Venn Diagram Ever
By Megan Garber
March 09, 2009 06:05 PM
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Buckley’s Good News
March 09, 2009 04:29 PM
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Campaign Desk
So, Are Ya? NYT foregoes nuance and asks the president, “Are you a socialist?”
By Jane Kim
March 09, 2009 04:15 PM Comments (4)
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The Audit
Working the AIG Beat
By Ryan Chittum
March 09, 2009 04:05 PM Comments (2)
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The Headline You’re Dealt
March 09, 2009 03:58 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Audit
Derivatives Echo Chamber The business press largely parroted industry on a massive, prescient '94 GAO study
March 09, 2009 01:26 PM Comments (13)
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Still Fighting The Last Battle
March 09, 2009 01:05 PM
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Behind the News
Notes from Underground Revisiting the Vietnam-era radical press
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The President Likes “The Feel Of A Newspaper”
March 09, 2009 10:58 AM
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Campaign Desk
The Takeaway from the Health Care Summit New euphemisms for the press to avoid
March 09, 2009 10:09 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
NPR, Starkman on the Pre-Crisis Press Coverage
By Ryan Chittum
March 09, 2009 09:50 AM
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The Audit
Laughing Down the Prophets
By Ryan Chittum
March 09, 2009 09:30 AM Comments (2)
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Taxicab Confessions: Dowd & Brooks
March 09, 2009 09:28 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Bloomberg Looks at Merrill’s $34 Million Man
By Ryan Chittum
March 09, 2009 08:40 AM Comments (2)
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The Starr Retort
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 05:30 PM
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Rick Astley, Meet William Strunk
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 05:11 PM
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Behind the News
The Week That Was: In Which We Carried on, Then Twittered about It The week in new media
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 04:50 PM Comments (2)
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The Audit
WSJ Exposes Corruption at the FDA
By Ryan Chittum
March 06, 2009 04:23 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Technology as Politics The teleprompter debate resurfaces
By Katia Bachko
March 06, 2009 02:34 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Baucus Watch, Part VI The senator’s thoughts on financing health reform
March 06, 2009 02:03 PM Comments (1)
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The President and the Gray Lady: Reunited (and It Feels So Good…)
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 01:19 PM
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The Observatory
Columbia Presents 2008 Oakes Award Journal-Sentinel, AP honored for exposing lax oversight of chemical exposure
March 06, 2009 01:09 PM Comments (3)
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Cornell Pest: The
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“We Are the Birds Coming Here to Get Our Food”
By Katia Bachko
March 06, 2009 12:57 PM
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table? Part VI Single-payer advocates are almost left off the invite list
March 06, 2009 12:37 PM Comments (4)
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Under Gawker’s Umbrella (ella, ella…)
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 12:02 PM
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Sources of Error When a source's story seems too good to be true
March 06, 2009 11:55 AM
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The Audit
It’s Obama’s Bear Market, Says Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum
March 06, 2009 11:52 AM Comments (16)
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The Short, Happy Life of a Twitter Link
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 11:32 AM
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The American Meme, Pork Products Edition
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 11:02 AM
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“Want Ads, Indeed”
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 10:32 AM
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Reid Hoffman: Everyone’s an Entrepreneur
By Megan Garber
March 06, 2009 09:02 AM
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The Audit
Transparency for AIG Gets a Boost
By Ryan Chittum
March 06, 2009 08:55 AM
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The Observatory
Washington Post Pools Its Resources Paper to create new science, health, and environment team
March 06, 2009 08:22 AM
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The Audit
Remains of the Day
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March 05, 2009 08:11 PM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Journal Writes, Journal Gets Results
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March 05, 2009 04:02 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
ProPublica Goes Pro-Am Amanda Michel joins the investigative outlet as its new editor of distributed reporting
By Megan Garber
March 05, 2009 02:32 PM
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The Kicker, Transparency
Clarification on the White House’s CIO appointment
March 05, 2009 01:57 PM
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Campaign Desk
Explaining COBRA Let’s have some straight talk from the media
March 05, 2009 12:21 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Immature and Irresistible Please stop covering Rush Limbaugh. Seriously.
By Katia Bachko
March 05, 2009 11:35 AM Comments (10)
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Shafer Praises the NYT’s “Anti-Kristof”
March 05, 2009 11:34 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
The Daily Show Eviscerates Santelli and CNBC Criticism of both lands bruising blows
By Ryan Chittum
March 05, 2009 11:05 AM Comments (41)
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Short Takes
Craigslist = Straw Man Tracking advertising revenue in the digital age
March 05, 2009 10:54 AM
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Gray Day (No, Not The Economy!)
March 05, 2009 10:33 AM
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The Audit
Bloomberg Finds Conflicts of Interest in Debtland
By Ryan Chittum
March 05, 2009 08:57 AM
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Feature
Get Off the Bus The future of pro-am journalism
March 05, 2009 07:00 AM Comments (14)
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Vivian Schiller on NPR’s Path Forward
By Megan Garber
March 04, 2009 10:50 PM
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The Audit
False Balance in the Times
By Ryan Chittum
March 04, 2009 09:51 PM Comments (1)
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Short Takes
One Shot A Q & A with Iranian photographer Jamshid Bayrami
March 04, 2009 06:31 PM
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Feature
Suffering in Silence Ground Zero's other victims
March 04, 2009 06:09 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
About That 120 Day Deadline Internal e-mail raises doubts on Obama’s Open Government Directive
March 04, 2009 05:27 PM
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Are All (Crushes On) First Ladies Alike?
March 04, 2009 04:53 PM
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The Observatory
Globe Kills Health/Science Section, Keeps Staff After twenty-five-year run, content will be moved to lifestyle, business sections
March 04, 2009 04:06 PM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
A War on “Class Warfare” The press sees red(s); history be damned!
By Greg Marx
March 04, 2009 02:25 PM Comments (14)
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The Audit
NYT Charts the Recession
By Ryan Chittum
March 04, 2009 01:09 PM Comments (2)
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It Is the East Room, and Michelle-O Is the Sun
By Megan Garber
March 04, 2009 12:53 PM
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Movie Star! (Misery)
March 04, 2009 12:51 PM
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Behind the News
CJR Audio: Ruth Reichl on the Life Epicurean The editor of Gourmet speaks about reinventing a beloved publication
By The Editors
March 04, 2009 12:34 PM
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Happy Grammar Day!
March 04, 2009 12:00 PM Comments (3)
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Suck-Ups, Hook-Ups
March 04, 2009 11:34 AM Comments (1)
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On The Shoulders of a “Has-Been*”
March 04, 2009 10:14 AM
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The Audit
TARP Carp Is Hardly Convincing
By Ryan Chittum
March 04, 2009 09:47 AM Comments (1)
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Fox & Friends Spreads Herpes-Beer Pong Hoax
March 04, 2009 09:31 AM
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Page Views
Taming the Bear Did Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviets—or did Forrest Gump?
By Ryan Grim
March 04, 2009 09:08 AM Comments (6)
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The Audit
The Journal Outside the Bubble
By Ryan Chittum
March 04, 2009 08:58 AM Comments (4)
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Essay
The Sarcastic Times For Rachel Maddow and the other ironic anchors, absurdity is serious stuff
By Alissa Quart
March 03, 2009 08:37 PM Comments (16)
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Behind the News, Full Court Press
Above the Fold: Remembering John Leonard Literary lions celebrate the legendary critic
March 03, 2009 06:37 PM Comments (8)
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Short Takes
Dutch Treat The Netherlands's newspaper economic crisis
March 03, 2009 06:18 PM
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Feature
Good Morning, Postville! An unlikely thorn in Agriprocessors' side
March 03, 2009 05:56 PM
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The Kicker
Stewart and the Twits
By Megan Garber
March 03, 2009 04:54 PM
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“Politico Is Reporting…”
March 03, 2009 04:33 PM
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The Kicker
ABC News’s “Idiot[ic,]” “Train Wreck” of a Story
March 03, 2009 03:49 PM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk
Wanted: More Skepticism at The New York Times When the word “nonprofit” has a deeper meaning
March 03, 2009 02:50 PM Comments (6)
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News Meeting
Does Size Matter? Does it take a big institution to stand up to big institutions?
By The Editors
March 03, 2009 02:21 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
To Tweet or Not To Tweet
March 03, 2009 01:03 PM
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Events
Columbia Journalism Review Launches Chinese-Language Edition in China New publication brings CJR’s analysis of U.S. media to critical foreign audience
By The Editors
March 03, 2009 12:55 PM
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The Audit
Fortune’s Most Admired Banks
By Ryan Chittum
March 03, 2009 12:16 PM
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Behind the News
That Feel A Twitter enthusiast’s lingering love affair with the endangered daily paper
March 03, 2009 12:04 PM Comments (1)
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Should Journalists Name “Zombie Banks?”
March 03, 2009 11:54 AM
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You Want Me To What?
March 03, 2009 11:28 AM Comments (1)
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The Rocky’s Grave Site
By Megan Garber
March 03, 2009 10:59 AM
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The Audit
Who Could Have Seen This Coming?
By Ryan Chittum
March 03, 2009 09:58 AM Comments (13)
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The Audit
AIG and the $19 Trillion
By Ryan Chittum
March 03, 2009 08:54 AM
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The Observatory
Mass Transit and the Stimulus National media show mixed feelings, presenting an opportunity for local and regional follow-ups
March 03, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (2)
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Cover Story
Roll the Dice How one journalist gambled on the future of news
March 03, 2009 07:00 AM Comments (6)
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Review
Buyer Beware A history of redlining and racism in Chicago
March 02, 2009 05:34 PM
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Remembered
March 02, 2009 03:53 PM
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The Audit
ProPublica Advances OTS Story
By Ryan Chittum
March 02, 2009 03:50 PM
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Language Corner
Persuasive Convincing On the vanishing distinctions between "persuade" and "convince"
March 02, 2009 03:42 PM
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Behind the News
Tweeting Breakfast Or, why I'm happy to know that David Gregory needs "a bagel b4 air"
By Megan Garber
March 02, 2009 03:21 PM
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The Audit
Listening to Kilgore In a new biography, the journalism pioneer has something to tell us; will we hear him?
March 02, 2009 12:07 PM
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Link Again
By Megan Garber
March 02, 2009 11:11 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
The Times’s Incredibly Uninteresting Google Feature
By Ryan Chittum
March 02, 2009 10:59 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
WaPo: Where’s the CTO?
March 02, 2009 10:50 AM
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Campaign Desk
Adieu, Medicare Advantage? Another insurer gets in trouble
March 02, 2009 10:35 AM Comments (12)
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PayDream Believers
By Megan Garber
March 02, 2009 10:18 AM
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Full Court Press
Above the Fold: The Best and Worst of Television Kaiser on Kroft, Markopolos, Santelli, and more
March 02, 2009 10:11 AM Comments (8)
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The Audit
Nocera Explains the AIG Scandal
By Ryan Chittum
March 02, 2009 08:40 AM Comments (1)
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Review
Picture Perfect? In three new graphic histories, the facts get a visual boost
By Richard Gehr
March 01, 2009 05:48 PM
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about Fred Friendly and America's early newspapermen
By James Boylan
March 01, 2009 04:00 PM
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The Research Report
Luces in the Sky Covering big pharma in the age of marketing
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
March 01, 2009 03:11 PM Comments (1)
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Darts and Laurels
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