Monthly Archive
July 2009
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The Kicker
Your Move, CNN
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2009 06:05 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
He’s Just Not That Into (Getting Into) It
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2009 05:16 PM
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Campaign Desk
Coverage of Obama “Suds Summit” Hard to Swallow Top papers waste time covering irrelevant photo-op
By Greg Marx
July 31, 2009 03:39 PM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Why the Twitter Absence? Keller’s Toothsome Response
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2009 02:41 PM
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The Observatory
Fuel for Thought Once credulous, biofuels coverage grows skeptical
July 31, 2009 12:24 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
High-Frequency Trading and Crash Risks Reuters' Goldstein and an NYT op-ed raise questions about a potential feedback loop
By Ryan Chittum
July 31, 2009 11:58 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
The Washington Post’s Priorities, Beer Goggles Edition
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2009 11:45 AM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk
Pelosi, Prevention, and PBS Is Madame Speaker misinformed?
July 31, 2009 11:44 AM Comments (5)
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Lessons Learned from “Wafergate” When bad editing happens to good reporters
July 31, 2009 11:07 AM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk
Getting Adjusted Post health care piece errs by using nominal dollars
By Greg Marx
July 31, 2009 10:48 AM
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The Kicker
“The Coalition of the Swilling,” or, “The Audacity of Hops”
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2009 09:21 AM
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The Kicker
Another One on the Block
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2009 09:14 AM
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The Kicker
Birthers: Bad for Business?
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2009 09:06 AM
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The Audit
Print Newspapers Still Dominate Readers’ Attention Another look at how much time is spent reading newspapers online and in print
By Ryan Chittum
July 30, 2009 07:46 PM Comments (18)
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Page Views
“Malaise” Maligned A look back at Jimmy Carter's ill-fated speech
By Megan Garber
July 30, 2009 01:35 PM Comments (5)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Got It Wrong? WSJ Op-Ed Page Has a Spot for You
By Ryan Chittum
July 30, 2009 01:27 PM
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Campaign Desk
Two Takes on the U.S.-Pakistan Marriage On the rocks, or on the mend? Or could it be both?
By Greg Marx
July 30, 2009 10:32 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Feeling Beige Economic headlines from Ohio, Indiana, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 30, 2009 10:14 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Times Finds More Mortgage Industry Conflicts
By Ryan Chittum
July 30, 2009 09:55 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Shades of Richard Nixon Is Obama playing defense or offense?
July 30, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
“Sudan ‘Trousers Trial’ Adjourned…”
July 29, 2009 03:14 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
A Seat at the (Picnic) Table For Fox News?
July 29, 2009 02:08 PM
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The Audit
NYT’s Digs Into Pension Benefit Guaranty Scandal
By Ryan Chittum
July 29, 2009 01:29 PM
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The Kicker
Like a Prayer
By Megan Garber
July 29, 2009 01:29 PM
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The Kicker
If You Hold It, They Will Come
July 29, 2009 11:50 AM
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The Observatory
(E)mission Impossible? Blogs, Web sites provide climate policy analysis lacking elsewhere
July 29, 2009 11:15 AM
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The Kicker
In My Spare Time? I Scrapbook, Jog, Do a Little Journalism…
July 29, 2009 10:55 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Housing Prices Stabilizing? A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 29, 2009 10:02 AM
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The Kicker
President PYT
July 29, 2009 09:45 AM
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The Kicker
Palin and Shatner, on the Beat
By Megan Garber
July 29, 2009 12:18 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Gibbs: “No Formal Agenda Other Than Cold Beer”
July 28, 2009 04:22 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform Too Boring for Broadcast? Not at KQED
July 28, 2009 03:56 PM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Bloomberg’s Obvious High-Frequency Trading Story
By Ryan Chittum
July 28, 2009 03:43 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
The Space-Time Continuum Just Ruptured.
By Megan Garber
July 28, 2009 03:17 PM
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Behind the News
I Heard It While in Grapevine Stories abound at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference
By Sam Eifling
July 28, 2009 01:58 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Health Care Reform “Not A Journalism-Friendly Story,” Part 2
July 28, 2009 01:44 PM
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News Meeting
Members Only What matters more when it comes to paid content: information or experience?
By The Editors
July 28, 2009 01:04 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
“Sad Hillary” Coverage
July 28, 2009 12:10 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker, Transparency
CRS sizes up the Future of Newspapers
July 28, 2009 11:42 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: A New New Deal in Tennessee Economic headlines from New Jersey, Tennessee, Ohio, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 28, 2009 10:10 AM
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The Kicker
Scooped by Seacrest! (TMZFail?)
July 28, 2009 10:02 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ Scoop: CFTC Will Blame Traders for Oil Spike
By Ryan Chittum
July 28, 2009 09:46 AM Comments (3)
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Second Read
‘The Greatest Liar’ Is Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year a work of journalism?
July 28, 2009 08:00 AM
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The Audit
More on the Associated Press Copyright Move
By Ryan Chittum
July 27, 2009 05:40 PM Comments (5)
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Language Corner
Vir-gin Version “Ginning up” won’t make you drunk
July 27, 2009 04:49 PM
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The Kicker
The Birth Of Politico…
July 27, 2009 03:35 PM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
What’s The Matter With NJ? NYT Asks, Answers (Kinda)
July 27, 2009 03:07 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Baucus Watch, Part XII The mother’s milk of politics and more
July 27, 2009 01:23 PM
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Behind the News, The News Frontier, The Water Cooler
We Just Don’t Know: An Interview with Jonathan Glick There may be a future for the news business, but it’s going to be unrecognizable
July 27, 2009 11:44 AM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
Shep Smith: Newcasting is Not Complicated
July 27, 2009 10:06 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Better Bad News on the Way? A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 27, 2009 10:04 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Journal Analyzes a Government “Gift”
By Ryan Chittum
July 27, 2009 09:49 AM
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The Kicker
Health Care Not Healthy For Ratings
July 27, 2009 09:35 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Relax, Bloggers. The AP Isn’t Out to Get You
By Ryan Chittum
July 24, 2009 03:54 PM Comments (50)
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The Kicker
Today, it’s an Obama Gaffe
By Greg Marx
July 24, 2009 03:47 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
The
BoyBreaking News Alert Who Cried WolfBy Megan Garber
July 24, 2009 03:09 PM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Weil on the End of “Nothing to See Here” Accounting
By Ryan Chittum
July 24, 2009 02:49 PM
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The Kicker
Further Thoughts on Mr. Cellophane
By Greg Marx
July 24, 2009 12:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Post Publishes a Reply to Palin
By Greg Marx
July 24, 2009 11:56 AM
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The Kicker
Troubled Times for Transit Agencies
By Greg Marx
July 24, 2009 11:27 AM
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Behind the News, Regret the Error
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong Alessandra Stanley’s troubling history of error
July 24, 2009 11:19 AM Comments (37)
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Campaign Desk
All the President’s Words, Part II Slogans for change, or a movement for change?
July 24, 2009 11:15 AM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
The New York Times, or, Cellophane, Mr. Cellophane
By Megan Garber
July 24, 2009 11:12 AM
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The Kicker
Tasty Treat of the Day: Birther’s Original
By Megan Garber
July 24, 2009 10:31 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Dow 9,000 Economic headlines from Maine, Texas, Montana, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 24, 2009 10:14 AM Comments (5)
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The Audit
The Times Takes on High-Frequency Trading
By Ryan Chittum
July 24, 2009 09:53 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Chinese Characters (140 of Them)
By Megan Garber
July 24, 2009 09:23 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
This Man Was Made for You and Me
By Megan Garber
July 24, 2009 09:12 AM
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Feature
Expensive Gifts What does free culture cost?
By Alissa Quart
July 24, 2009 08:30 AM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
About that Letter… TPM whiffs on Obama’s FOIA dodge
July 23, 2009 05:15 PM
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The Kicker
A Few Wise Words on GatesGate
By Greg Marx
July 23, 2009 04:57 PM Comments (3)
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The Observatory
The DEA, Michael Jackson, and Me How the agency’s press office cost our magazine the propofol scoop
By Adam Marcus
July 23, 2009 04:22 PM Comments (4)
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The Observatory
Media on the Moon Anniversary of Apollo landing inspires stories both quirky and critical
July 23, 2009 03:35 PM
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Campaign Desk
Pessimism on Af-Pak An argument for “the good war” doesn’t quite deliver
By Greg Marx
July 23, 2009 03:04 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Because All Things Will Return, Eventually, to the Miracle Ear
By Megan Garber
July 23, 2009 02:55 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker, The Observatory
George Will and Climate Change: Have We Seen This Movie Before?
By Greg Marx
July 23, 2009 02:46 PM Comments (5)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Newspaper Readers Buy Papers for the Content You'd think that would be obvious. Plus, the Walter E. Hussman Jr. Theorem
By Ryan Chittum
July 23, 2009 02:18 PM Comments (8)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT Now Gets As Much Money from Circulation as from Ads A landmark event for the rapidly changing newspaper industry that points toward a new model
By Ryan Chittum
July 23, 2009 12:57 PM Comments (18)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Circulation Revenue Only Thing Growing at Newspapers McClatchy and New York Times Company find a revenue stream that goes up
By Ryan Chittum
July 23, 2009 12:43 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Photo Press-tige
By Megan Garber
July 23, 2009 12:02 PM
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Behind the News
The Magazinist Close reading the July 2009 issue of Reason
By Daniel Luzer
July 23, 2009 10:44 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Football Stays Strong A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 23, 2009 10:29 AM
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Campaign Desk
Everything’s a Crisis The perils of prognosticating on Obama's political future
By Greg Marx
July 23, 2009 09:55 AM
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The Kicker
Shocker of the Day: Stewart (Still) Most Trusted Newscaster in America
By Megan Garber
July 23, 2009 08:35 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Who Wrote the Book of
LoveJournalism?By Megan Garber
July 23, 2009 08:01 AM
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Feature
What’s a Fair Share In the Age of Google? How to think about news in the link economy
By Peter Osnos
July 23, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (18)
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The Kicker
Letterman: “I Don’t Know Anything about the Twitter”
By Megan Garber
July 22, 2009 11:48 PM
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Meet the New Boss… Democrats won’t defend ’06 position on White House visitor logs
July 22, 2009 05:48 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XII Did the AMA snooker the press?
July 22, 2009 05:20 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Reuters’ Goldstein Raises High-Frequency Trading Issue
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2009 03:53 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Media Matters in South Korea
July 22, 2009 03:40 PM
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The Kicker
See the World, Tell the World!
By Megan Garber
July 22, 2009 02:46 PM
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The Kicker
You Can’t Do That (Allude to Loofahs) On Television (Fox News)
July 22, 2009 02:40 PM
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The Kicker
Will “Birthers” Make Prime Time Tonight?
July 22, 2009 01:26 PM Comments (4)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Covering the TARP Inspector’s Report
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2009 12:43 PM
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The Kicker
Another Take on the Cost of That House Health Care Bill
By Greg Marx
July 22, 2009 11:43 AM
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The Kicker
“Regional and Foreign News Media” “Softer” Than WH Press Corps?
July 22, 2009 10:56 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sen. Schumer, Meet Louise Russell What’s this about preventative care saving money?
July 22, 2009 10:48 AM
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Page Views, The Water Cooler
The Art of Listening Pete Hamill chats about the joys of A.J. Liebling
By James Marcus
July 22, 2009 10:35 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
Transparency or Trillions? Papers make different choices about what to highlight in IG report
By Greg Marx
July 22, 2009 10:24 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: For the Birds Economic headlines from California, Indiana, Texas, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 22, 2009 10:07 AM
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The Kicker
Didn’t Trust Cronkite?
July 22, 2009 10:07 AM
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The Audit
Weiss Takes on the Limits of Press Power
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2009 09:32 AM
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Feature
Open for Business If you want readers to buy news, what exactly will you sell? The case for a free/paid hybrid.
July 22, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (1)
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News Meeting
Do You Remember Walter? What can contemporary journalists learn from Walter Cronkite?
By The Editors
July 21, 2009 04:56 PM Comments (9)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The $1 BusinessWeek Story
By Ryan Chittum
July 21, 2009 03:32 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Headline of the Day?
July 21, 2009 01:30 PM
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The Kicker
Does This Question Make My
Butt Look BigInterview Look Small?July 21, 2009 01:09 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker, The Observatory
Science Clichés: Steer Clear
July 21, 2009 01:02 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IV The new math, or maybe it’s the old
July 21, 2009 12:43 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
It’s On at Slate
July 21, 2009 10:27 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Taxing Times A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 21, 2009 10:20 AM
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The Kicker
“Don’t Jump Off-the-Record”
July 21, 2009 09:40 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT: Where’s Obama’s Manufacturing Plan?
By Ryan Chittum
July 21, 2009 08:48 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
A Busy Couple of Days in Iran The NYT and the LAT offer some strong reporting
By Greg Marx
July 21, 2009 08:31 AM Comments (1)
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Feature
Build the Wall Most readers won’t pay for news, but if we move quickly, maybe enough of them will. One man’s bold blueprint.
By David Simon
July 21, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (72)
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Editorial
The Grave Dancer’s Folly Blaming newspapers for their plight is a waste of precious time
By The Editors
July 21, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Let’s Give ‘Em Something to (Continue to) “Talk About”
July 20, 2009 04:54 PM Comments (1)
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Short Takes
Global Village Are regional columnists under pressure to think locally?
July 20, 2009 04:22 PM
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Language Corner
You Spell Potato, I Spell Potatoe Spelling “foreign” words
July 20, 2009 04:16 PM
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The Audit
Getting the New Journal (Mostly) Right
By Ryan Chittum
July 20, 2009 03:43 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The Last of the Newsmen Walter Cronkite and the way it was
By Megan Garber
July 20, 2009 03:20 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Keep On Shuffling Bai's argument about Obama doesn't stand up to scrutiny
By Greg Marx
July 20, 2009 03:16 PM
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The Kicker
Wired’s Media Pyramid (“News” Still Broccoli)
July 20, 2009 01:20 PM
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The Kicker
Awkward Spitzer Moment on MSNBC
July 20, 2009 12:46 PM Comments (2)
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The Audit
When Financial Media Blogs Collide Competing views of journalism emerge
July 20, 2009 12:43 PM
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Campaign Desk
Gregory A+; Sebelius D- NBC’s David Gregory bores down on Madame Secretary
July 20, 2009 11:26 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Meet The Press (And Hair)
July 20, 2009 10:59 AM
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The Kicker
CBS News
RetiresTo Keep Using Cronkite’s Voice-OverJuly 20, 2009 10:31 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Have We Met Before? A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 20, 2009 10:08 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The WSJ Spotlights Working Class Woes
By Ryan Chittum
July 20, 2009 09:55 AM
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The Kicker
Sanford’s Sorry State Column
July 20, 2009 09:41 AM
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The News Frontier
The News Frontier A mission statement
By The Editors
July 20, 2009 08:00 AM
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Feature
Leap of Faith Inside the movement to build an audience of citizens
By Megan Garber
July 20, 2009 08:00 AM
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The Audit
The Deal’s Audit Gotcha Trade-mag editor falsely implies that we pull punches at CJR
By Ryan Chittum
July 18, 2009 05:19 PM
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The Kicker
Still More on Sotomayor
By Greg Marx
July 17, 2009 04:37 PM Comments (1)
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Short Takes
A Kind of Victory Remembering El Salvador’s struggle and those who covered it
July 17, 2009 04:36 PM
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Feature
A Man in Full Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans broadcaster Garland Robinette is still fighting mad
July 17, 2009 04:13 PM
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The News Frontier, The Observatory
The New Pioneers of the West Start-up tries to fill the void in environment coverage
July 17, 2009 03:50 PM
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Campaign Desk
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XI Center for Medicine in the Public Interest fights against a public plan
July 17, 2009 03:01 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Cost Control, Back in the News
By Greg Marx
July 17, 2009 02:59 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Daily Show Gets Jim Cramer Again (and Bernie Goldberg) But they're not alone in their credulity on former baseball-star Lenny Dykstra
By Ryan Chittum
July 17, 2009 01:13 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Buggin’ Out in Baltimore
July 17, 2009 12:46 PM
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The Kicker
The Huffington Post as Moral Compass?
July 17, 2009 12:17 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Lobbyists Slimy; No One Too Surprised
By Greg Marx
July 17, 2009 12:11 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Obama, Hard Truths, and the Media
By Greg Marx
July 17, 2009 11:12 AM
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Regret the Error
Reuters Opens its Kimono Wire service makes reporting handbook freely available online
July 17, 2009 11:02 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
The Numbers Game Sorting out conflicting reports on the cost of House’s health care bill
By Greg Marx
July 17, 2009 10:36 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Stimulus Struggles Headlines from Staten Island, South Carolina, Vermont and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 17, 2009 10:10 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
(Still) Supremely Boring Arguments for Sotomayor hearing's long-term significance are unpersuasive
By Greg Marx
July 16, 2009 04:48 PM Comments (2)
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Short Takes
Into the Fold How the online sports community has become part of the mainstream
July 16, 2009 04:39 PM
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The Audit
Ugly Numbers on Toxic-Asset Prices Signal More Trouble
By Ryan Chittum
July 16, 2009 04:26 PM Comments (1)
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The Observatory
BPA, Health, and Nuance STATS report criticizes media coverage, but has its own faults
July 16, 2009 02:53 PM Comments (17)
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Feature
One of Us A soldier chooses journalism, but his old boss won’t let go
By Matt Mabe
July 16, 2009 02:50 PM Comments (53)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT’s Ben Stein Hawks Misleading Credit Score Site
By Ryan Chittum
July 16, 2009 01:47 PM Comments (15)
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Behind the News
The Chicago Tribune, the Cubs, and Me TribCo is selling the Chicago Cubs. Steve Daley was there when they bought in
By Steve Daley
July 16, 2009 11:02 AM Comments (4)
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Page Views
A Lapdog in Wolffe’s Clothing One journalist's fawning account of Barack Obama's presidential campaign
July 16, 2009 10:35 AM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Jobless Recovery on the Way A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 16, 2009 10:09 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Fortune Looks at Automated Trading After a Code Theft
By Ryan Chittum
July 16, 2009 09:51 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
Don’t Forget Iran As unrest fades, important stories remain to be told
By Greg Marx
July 16, 2009 08:00 AM
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The Kicker
Do Reader Comments on Web Articles “Devalue” Journalism?
July 16, 2009 07:15 AM Comments (26)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Goldman Sachs to the Forefront Rolling Stone, a computer-code theft, and boffo profits focus attention on the bank
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2009 07:12 PM Comments (9)
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Essay
Why John Lennon Matters The case for professional pop-music critics in an amateur age
July 15, 2009 04:43 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker, Transparency
Q: Since 2001, how many media leak investigations have the FBI conducted?
July 15, 2009 04:33 PM
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The Audit
Bloomberg Gets a Scoop on a Too Big to Fail Tax
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2009 04:07 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
GlobalPost Reporter On His Weeks in Iran’s Evin Prison
July 15, 2009 03:10 PM
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The Kicker
CNN’s Rick Sanchez “Take[s] the Conversation Outside the Beltway…”
July 15, 2009 03:04 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Extra, Extra: Health Reform Costs Money Papers emphasize House health bill's cost rather than its content
By Greg Marx
July 15, 2009 02:24 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Washington’s Newest “Escort Service”
July 15, 2009 01:40 PM
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Katia Bachko
July 15, 2009 12:49 PM
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The Kicker
“For She’s a Jolly Good Journalist”
July 15, 2009 11:57 AM
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The Kicker
Disagreement on Palin’s piece
By Greg Marx
July 15, 2009 11:04 AM Comments (10)
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The Kicker
Obama to Costas: “Is This Hannity?”
July 15, 2009 10:59 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: It’s a Gas Economic headlines from North Carolina, Michigan, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 15, 2009 10:04 AM
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The Kicker
More From The State: Tapper, Jenkins Woo Sanford
July 15, 2009 09:46 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Times on the Real Unemployment Crisis
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2009 09:44 AM
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Campaign Desk
A Few Good Bloggers Among the Sotomayor live-bloggers, a few stand out
By Greg Marx
July 15, 2009 08:30 AM Comments (2)
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Feature
Groundhog Day Why this year’s health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993
July 15, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk
All the President’s Words Still, when it comes to health reform, what does he stand for?
July 15, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
CIA Story Roundup A look at the national papers' coverage of secret CIA hit squad story
By Greg Marx
July 14, 2009 02:21 PM
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The Kicker
The State: Media Outlets Offered to Spin Sanford Story
July 14, 2009 01:56 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Hospital Disconnect USA Today offers news you can use, but a little more context, please
July 14, 2009 01:40 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Interview: James L. Bothwell The author of a definitive '94 GAO derivatives report talks about industry pushback and financial-press complacency
By Ryan Chittum
July 14, 2009 12:54 PM Comments (8)
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books on campaign bloggers, tabloids, and a collection of Henry Fairlie’s essays
By James Boylan
July 14, 2009 12:38 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Time Gets the Stimulus Wrong
By Ryan Chittum
July 14, 2009 11:59 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Fox News: Scratch That; Reverse It.
July 14, 2009 11:43 AM
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News Meeting, The Observatory
Science Journalism in a Can Are pre-packaged science stories better than none at all?
By The Editors
July 14, 2009 10:39 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
When’s a “Stare” a “Glare?”
July 14, 2009 10:24 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: “Green” Shoots? A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 14, 2009 10:16 AM
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The Kicker
“Is This Supposed To Be Journalism?”
July 14, 2009 09:42 AM
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Campaign Desk
Supremely Boring Big coverage for Sotomayor hearings; little chance of news
By Greg Marx
July 13, 2009 03:52 PM
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Language Corner
Sacrilegious “Secular” moves from the church to the state
July 13, 2009 03:39 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
OMG, Teens Are SO Over Twitter!
July 13, 2009 03:00 PM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Don’t Judge A Protester (Or a Pundit) By His Hair
July 13, 2009 02:21 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Obama Spins New Stimulus Spending Line into the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum
July 13, 2009 01:53 PM
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The Kicker
Palin Was Just Neck Candy. And, “Whatever,” Weymouth
July 13, 2009 01:18 PM
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Behind the News
A Kind of Victory Remembering the war in El Salvador and what it cost journalism
July 13, 2009 12:40 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Meacham: “[Maziar Bahari] Was Doing His Job”
July 13, 2009 11:42 AM
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Health Care in France—and in America A journalist’s observations
July 13, 2009 10:58 AM Comments (7)
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Froomkin Is The New Nipples?
July 13, 2009 10:56 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Unemployment Inequality A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 13, 2009 10:48 AM
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Transparency Questions for Sotomayor
July 13, 2009 10:01 AM
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“Nerd Super Bowl” (Again)
July 13, 2009 09:48 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Journal: Option ARMs Doing Worse than Subprime
By Ryan Chittum
July 13, 2009 09:35 AM Comments (1)
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Review
Heart of Stone A distinguished new biography of a career contrarian
July 13, 2009 08:00 AM
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The Audit
Bloomberg’s Weil Asks the Right Questions on Goldman
By Ryan Chittum
July 10, 2009 04:50 PM Comments (3)
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Huffington Post, community newspaper
By Greg Marx
July 10, 2009 03:29 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Slate Takes on the Prosperity Gospel Peddlers
By Ryan Chittum
July 10, 2009 02:43 PM
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Feedback we can do without
By Greg Marx
July 10, 2009 02:30 PM
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Hacks versus Flacks, Guitar Hero Edition
By Megan Garber
July 10, 2009 01:39 PM
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Bill Keller doesn’t ❤ Jon Stewart
By Greg Marx
July 10, 2009 12:49 PM Comments (8)
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The Research Report
Edifice Rex How newspapers lost their spots in the skyline
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
July 10, 2009 12:45 PM
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Sonia Agonistes
By Megan Garber
July 10, 2009 12:10 PM
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One Small Step for a Google Image…
By Megan Garber
July 10, 2009 11:40 AM
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“Nails Never Fails”
By Greg Marx
July 10, 2009 11:39 AM
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The Short, Happy Life of the UK Walkman Kid
By Megan Garber
July 10, 2009 11:27 AM
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Regret the Error
The Copy Editing Equation Fewer copy editors + fewer reporters + more work = trouble
July 10, 2009 11:15 AM Comments (3)
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“Admiral Obama dithers on the poop deck”
July 10, 2009 11:12 AM
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[Insert Sir-Mix-a-Lot Lyric Here]
By Megan Garber
July 10, 2009 11:06 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Back from Bankruptcy General Motors emerges in its new, smaller shape
By Greg Marx
July 10, 2009 10:57 AM
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The Observatory
Grace-ful Coverage Libby asbestos trial highlights the value of robust regional reporting
July 10, 2009 10:54 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Salons Under Scrutiny Examining the ethics of sponsored, off-the-record events
By Greg Marx
July 10, 2009 10:03 AM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, The Audit
How CJR Breaks Bread Full disclosure on a private event
By The Editors
July 10, 2009 10:01 AM Comments (2)
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Sotomayor and Open Courts
July 10, 2009 09:59 AM Comments (1)
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AP, Micro Machine
By Megan Garber
July 10, 2009 09:47 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT’s Norris Lets Beazer and Justice Have It
By Ryan Chittum
July 10, 2009 09:43 AM
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Levi Johnston, Sage of Resignation
By Megan Garber
July 10, 2009 09:07 AM
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The Audit
Journalism Scandal at News Corp
July 10, 2009 02:22 AM Comments (1)
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Another One Bites the Dust…or, Maybe Not
July 09, 2009 06:03 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Transparency
Sarah Palin’s New Reason Blame it on the Records Act
July 09, 2009 04:02 PM Comments (7)
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The Audit
CNBC’s Santelli and the $1,300 YOU Can Get Rich Trading! Seminar Probably not a good idea
By Ryan Chittum
July 09, 2009 03:30 PM Comments (10)
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The Audit
USA Today Hits the Overdraft Racket Hard
By Ryan Chittum
July 09, 2009 03:03 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News, Profile
Burger Meister Meet Kevin Pang, cheeseburger critic for the Chicago Tribune
July 09, 2009 01:47 PM Comments (17)
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Campaign Desk
Down Mexico Way Washington Post and Mother Jones with good stories on corruption in the Mexican army
By Greg Marx
July 09, 2009 01:17 PM
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No Mug Shots on A1 of Your Local Paper*? BuyOneAnyway…
July 09, 2009 11:33 AM
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If G8 Press Coverage Stinks…
July 09, 2009 11:05 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: On the Roads A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx
July 09, 2009 10:58 AM
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Today, In Death
July 09, 2009 10:25 AM
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“We’ll See How Much Viewers Are Interested…” (And?)
July 09, 2009 09:49 AM
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Cover Story
No Free Lunch Who will pay for news? CJR presents four stories searching for journalism's economic model
By The Editors
July 09, 2009 08:30 AM Comments (12)
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The Audit
Guardian’s Big Scoop on Scandal at News Corp. Tab The story raises serious questions for the CEO of WSJ parent Dow Jones
By Ryan Chittum
July 08, 2009 08:56 PM Comments (1)
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To Live and Report in Mexico
July 08, 2009 03:38 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Reuters: Bureaucrats Fighting Consumer Agency to Protect Turf
By Ryan Chittum
July 08, 2009 03:29 PM
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“Myth*”-Busting at Mediaite
July 08, 2009 01:11 PM
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Kristof Suggests “‘Student Driver’ Sign” On Some Kristof Columns
July 08, 2009 12:54 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Was Douthat (Kinda, Sorta) Right? Faint evidence for his class-based argument about Palin’s appeal
By Greg Marx
July 08, 2009 11:40 AM Comments (4)
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Last Week’s Network News: 30% Jackson Coverage
July 08, 2009 11:05 AM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Speculators and Stimuli Headlines from D.C., Seattle, St. Louis, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 08, 2009 10:37 AM
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The Observatory
Science Journalism Around the World WCSJ participants talk about reporting in their home countries
July 08, 2009 10:23 AM Comments (6)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The LA Times’s Incomplete Swipe at Credit Cards
By Ryan Chittum
July 08, 2009 09:54 AM
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Behind the News
Atlantic Editor Bennet on His Magazine’s “Salons” His thoughts on the salons' journalistic value, or lack thereof
By Greg Marx
July 08, 2009 08:29 AM
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Behind the News
Beach Reading Redux CJR's summer reading list for journalists
By The Editors
July 07, 2009 04:41 PM Comments (19)
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Get Caught Up on the “Uighur Sitch”
July 07, 2009 04:01 PM
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The Audit
A Code Theft at Goldman Is a Tantalizing Story
By Ryan Chittum
July 07, 2009 03:46 PM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk
The Uighur Picture NPR’s Gifford offers insights on events in Urumqi
By Greg Marx
July 07, 2009 02:45 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
“This Is America. I Can Ask You Whatever I Want.” Should journalists be forced to spill reporting info at customs checkpoints?
By John Dinges
July 07, 2009 02:41 PM Comments (10)
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Vatican Radio, Powered by Enel…
July 07, 2009 01:46 PM
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News Meeting
“We Love You, Michael” How much Michael Jackson is too much Michael Jackson?
By The Editors
July 07, 2009 01:12 PM Comments (7)
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Share Your Jackson Coverage Highlights (Lowlights) Here!
July 07, 2009 11:48 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Egg Donors and Food Stamps Headlines from Texas, California, Oregon, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 07, 2009 10:59 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The WSJ Gives Its Well-Off Readers a Glimpse of Poverty
By Ryan Chittum
July 07, 2009 10:43 AM Comments (1)
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“Hearse, La Toya Visit Cemetery…”
July 07, 2009 10:02 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The FT Finds Wall Street Up to Its Old Tricks And dog bites man, but it's still important news
By Ryan Chittum
July 06, 2009 07:41 PM
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Inside Atlantic Media’s “Unique, Content-Rich” Dinner Events
By Greg Marx
July 06, 2009 05:40 PM
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The Observatory
Press Eyes Copenhagen At World Conference of Science Journalists, climate a hot topic
July 06, 2009 05:28 PM
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The Kicker
Anniston Star’s Bad Wrap (Might Mug Shots Save Journalism?)
July 06, 2009 04:35 PM Comments (6)
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Talking Point$ Memo
By Megan Garber
July 06, 2009 03:46 PM Comments (1)
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Language Corner
Uncoupling Is it OK to omit the “of” after “couple”?
July 06, 2009 03:26 PM
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Campaign Desk
Where’d the Money Go? Times story overlooks insurer’s contributions
By Greg Marx
July 06, 2009 03:12 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The AP Is Too Optimistic on Obama’s Too Big To Fail Plans
By Ryan Chittum
July 06, 2009 02:03 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Pew Poll: Palin Polarizes Public Douthat misreads data in piece on Palin's purported popularity
By Greg Marx
July 06, 2009 01:27 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Giving up the Ghostboxes Headlines from Texas, Arizona, Michigan, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 06, 2009 10:51 AM
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Do It Tuesday! On Jackson’s day, the mice should play
By Megan Garber
July 06, 2009 10:45 AM
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The Kicker, Transparency
Palin’s Hidden Emails
July 06, 2009 10:41 AM
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The Kicker
Mediaite Launches (Loads…)
July 06, 2009 10:20 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Miami Herald Finds Florida Fudged for Stanford
By Ryan Chittum
July 06, 2009 09:44 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Amplifying the Drumbeat on the “Overdraft Protection” Racket The issue picks up momentum in the financial press
By Ryan Chittum
July 02, 2009 05:48 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Gibbs: “I Seem to Have Forgotten My Amex”
By Megan Garber
July 02, 2009 04:48 PM
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The Observatory
Some Optimism for the Future of Science Journalism And especially for international collaboration
July 02, 2009 04:43 PM Comments (2)
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The Tweetest Taboo
By Megan Garber
July 02, 2009 04:14 PM
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
More PitneyGate Fallout? Press focused on who asked questions at Obama town hall
By Greg Marx
July 02, 2009 03:55 PM Comments (2)
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Washington Post All Access Fire Sale!
By Megan Garber
July 02, 2009 03:11 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
More on WaPo Salon Deal
By Greg Marx
July 02, 2009 02:59 PM
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
In (Partial) Defense of Connie Schultz Jeff Jarvis’s low lob
July 02, 2009 02:39 PM Comments (1)
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Brauchli On WaPo Salons
By Greg Marx
July 02, 2009 12:49 PM Comments (2)
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The Long and Winding Rohde
By Megan Garber
July 02, 2009 12:16 PM
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“Our Independence from Advertisers or Sponsors Is Inviolable”
By Megan Garber
July 02, 2009 12:06 PM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: School’s Out With Money Tight, Classes Are Slashed
By Greg Marx
July 02, 2009 10:40 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Journal: Wall Street Pay Could Set Records
By Ryan Chittum
July 02, 2009 09:36 AM
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“That Turns Out to be Pretty Close to the Truth”
July 02, 2009 08:56 AM
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Page Views
Pilgrims or Progress? A Harper's editor's stint as a cultural virologist
By Jane Kim
July 02, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
Good News, For a Change Non-profit consortium launches Investigative News Network
By Greg Marx
July 01, 2009 05:57 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
WSJ Shows How Personal-Finance Pieces Ought to Be Done
By Ryan Chittum
July 01, 2009 05:21 PM Comments (1)
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Senior Moment
July 01, 2009 05:12 PM
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Campaign Desk
Normalizing the Filibuster The Senate’s peculiar institution gets taken for granted
By Greg Marx
July 01, 2009 04:22 PM Comments (1)
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Jackson Coverage: Too Much? Not Enough (About “Exercise Regimen”)?
July 01, 2009 03:12 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
NYT: Banks Gearing Up to Kill New Consumer-Protection Agency
By Ryan Chittum
July 01, 2009 02:57 PM
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The Kicker
Thomas: “Pattern of Controlling The Press”
July 01, 2009 01:04 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis
The Economy Today: Happy New (Fiscal) Year Economic headlines from California, Utah, North Dakota, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx
July 01, 2009 12:04 PM
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The Kicker, Transparency
“Who will suffer?”
July 01, 2009 10:30 AM Comments (1)
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The Observatory
NSF “Underwriting” Coverage… And other controversies from the World Conference of Science Journalists
July 01, 2009 10:23 AM Comments (18)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
ProPublica, Post Watchdog Senator’s TARP Meddling
By Ryan Chittum
July 01, 2009 09:33 AM
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“Michael Jackson Will Only Die Once…”
July 01, 2009 09:30 AM
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Ezra Klein Says It All
By Megan Garber
July 01, 2009 12:28 AM
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