Monthly Archive
March 2012
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Cuts the Guruspeak
By Ryan Chittum
March 30, 2012 07:43 PM Comments (1)
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The News Frontier
The Trayvon Martin Case: How Has the Sentinel Handled It? Orlando’s daily gets mixed marks
By Alysia Santo
March 30, 2012 06:30 PM Comments (17)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Does Fact-Checking Work? False Statements are Wrong Metric By naming and shaming worst offenders, reporters can make a difference
March 30, 2012 09:41 AM Comments (40)
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Short Takes
Old Time, Real Time AJ Liebling's Twitter account
March 30, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Cookbooks and News, Too Big to Fail, Paul Ryan
By Ryan Chittum
March 30, 2012 12:21 AM Comments (9)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Harry Potter Hits the E-Book Market
By Ryan Chittum
March 29, 2012 05:42 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Plain Dealer on a Potential Senator’s ‘Estrangement’ from Truth Mandel says he won’t be swayed by fact-checks; reporter promises to stay ‘vigilant’
By T.C. Brown
March 29, 2012 04:07 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform and the Supreme Court: Day Three The press reads the tea leaves
March 29, 2012 03:06 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
How to (B)roil a Celebrity
March 29, 2012 02:56 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
A Strong Veepstakes Story from the Tampa Bay Times Focus on Rubio’s deeds—not words—brings new insights
March 29, 2012 01:46 PM
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Behind the News
Stories I’d Like to See Hooked on drug ads, education collision in Hawaii, and the gas frenzy
By Steven Brill
March 29, 2012 01:29 PM Comments (1)
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Taking Tea with Ayn Rand Gary Weiss explores Objectivism’s influence on contemporary politics
By Daniel Luzer
March 29, 2012 11:52 AM Comments (8)
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Feature
The American Newsroom
March 29, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates
By Ryan Chittum
March 28, 2012 07:34 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform and the Supreme Court: Day Two Press coverage focuses on the individual mandate
March 28, 2012 01:40 PM Comments (22)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Why is the Press So Ready to Count Santorum Out? Voters think their primary choices still matter
March 28, 2012 11:13 AM Comments (29)
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Darts and Laurels
Darts and Laurels So much hot air
By The Editors
March 28, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The WaPo Ombudsman’s Faulty Paywall Analysis The NYT's meter is saving or adding more than $70 million in revenue a year already
By Ryan Chittum
March 28, 2012 02:17 AM Comments (7)
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Swing States Project, The Observatory
Little Context for Obama Energy Speech in Ohio Local reports present a war of words without much fact checking
March 27, 2012 05:43 PM
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Fiftieth Anniversary
Caro’s Way Even after 2,600 pages, LBJ remains elusive
March 27, 2012 02:35 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Health Reform and the Supreme Court: Day One Press coverage offers a little something for everyone
March 27, 2012 02:29 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
News Organizations That Lobby Against Their Own Reporters’ Interests Media companies are fighting political transparency while their reporters demand it
March 27, 2012 01:09 PM Comments (4)
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Essay
Why Kael is Good for You It's time to defend a critic's 'contrarian' viewpoint
By Armond White
March 27, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Hollywood Rolls, Ryan’s Loopholes, Regulation and Racing
By Ryan Chittum
March 27, 2012 01:40 AM
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Behind the News
In Ecuador, a Social Media Workaround Oppressed journalists are having their say online
By Emily Judem
March 26, 2012 06:29 PM
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Campaign Desk
Mitt and the Mandate Whose paternity is it, anyway?
March 26, 2012 06:14 PM Comments (4)
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The Audit
Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront Not a good idea, Business Insider
By Ryan Chittum
March 26, 2012 02:48 PM Comments (58)
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Language Corner
Madison Square Gardening Time to plant some “seeds”
March 26, 2012 01:13 PM
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Behind the News, Borders & Bylines
Denying Death Most people ignore genocide denial. Growing numbers of governments do not
March 26, 2012 11:34 AM Comments (4)
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Feature
Married, With Websites Leaving newsrooms behind, journalist couples from Maine to Alaska are setting up their own shops—online
By Alysia Santo
March 26, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: N.J., Paragon of Clean Government; Algae Fuel, Fees, The Rich (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum
March 23, 2012 07:35 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
The New York Times Goes to the Dogs Canine-centric stories skyrocket during early months of Abramson’s reign
By Ron Howell
March 23, 2012 04:51 PM Comments (12)
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles Open-source robots, David Lynch, and the “Eat More Kale” guy
By Alysia Santo
March 23, 2012 03:39 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The AP’s Weak Coverage of Its New Boss
By Ryan Chittum
March 23, 2012 03:07 PM Comments (4)
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Currents
Open Bar The Red Carpet Lounge
By The Editors
March 23, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
The WSJ on the GOP’s $36 Million Man
By Ryan Chittum
March 22, 2012 06:10 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk
Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act The two faces of health reform
March 22, 2012 04:16 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Paley Center presents: “The Next Big Thing in Digital News Innovation”
By Alysia Santo
March 22, 2012 04:08 PM Comments (1)
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Fiftieth Anniversary
A Baghdad Journal At stake: $18.6 billion for the rebuilding of Iraq. The players: The Pentagon, the White House, the press, and one loyal public affairs officer worrying about his job. Here is his unofficial story.
March 22, 2012 02:13 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Reporter’s Toolbox: Oil and Gas Prices Resources to help journalists stop the spin
March 22, 2012 02:00 PM Comments (14)
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The News Frontier
Telling the News on Cowbird Jonathan Harris’s storytelling platform has journalistic potential
By Alysia Santo
March 22, 2012 01:29 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Etch-a-Sketch Press How the media constructed another Romney gaffe—and why it is unlikely to matter
March 22, 2012 11:25 AM Comments (10)
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The Audit
Why Twitter Will Get More Annoying
By Felix Salmon
March 22, 2012 09:22 AM Comments (6)
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Second Read
The Auteurs’ Caretaker Penelope Gilliatt didn't care about movies as much as she cared about the people who made them
March 22, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Skynet News, Gawker’s High-Low Strategy, Oil Speculators
By Ryan Chittum
March 22, 2012 03:13 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Gawker Misreads the WSJ on Vaccines and Immunity (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum
March 22, 2012 02:42 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Michigan’s Bad Integrity Report Card A close look at coverage in the “Trust Us State”
By Anna Clark
March 21, 2012 04:16 PM
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Romney, BuzzFeed, and that “Hidden” Op-Ed Is the press ceding policy-shift reporting to oppo artists?
By Erika Fry
March 21, 2012 12:05 PM Comments (2)
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Currents
Acronyms You Should Know FERN: The Food & Environment Reporting Network
March 21, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Newspaper of the Year, Leverage, Wemple vs. Wolff
By Ryan Chittum
March 21, 2012 12:34 AM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Inspecting Local TV’s “Public Inspection Files” CJR explores the filing cabinets in five states
By The Editors
March 20, 2012 10:31 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
Q & A: New America Foundation’s Tom Glaisyer The NAF’s Media Policy Fellow on crowdsourcing broadcasters’ public files
By Alysia Santo
March 20, 2012 10:08 PM
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The Audit
The NYT Paywall Hums Along
By Ryan Chittum
March 20, 2012 03:34 PM Comments (7)
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The Audit
When Journalists Take Money From Wall Street
By Felix Salmon
March 20, 2012 02:12 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Stories I’d Like to See Examining the insanity defense, MSNBC’s weekend sleaze, and suing OPEC
By Steven Brill
March 20, 2012 01:17 PM
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Behind the News
Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey A classy confession doesn’t negate the crime
March 20, 2012 11:08 AM Comments (8)
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Reports
Detained in Dagestan How I got caught—and got out
March 20, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Responsible Populism, Tom Frank on Elites, Shlaes and Inflation
By Ryan Chittum
March 19, 2012 11:52 PM Comments (7)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Why Making More Money Is Groovy, And Makes You Richer
By Ryan Chittum
March 19, 2012 07:55 PM Comments (32)
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Behind the News
The Facts of the Mike Daisey Matter And why they matter
March 19, 2012 05:26 PM Comments (7)
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Language Corner
Beggars Can Be Choosers Questioning the questions
March 19, 2012 03:03 PM
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Feature, The Audit
Money Talks If you cover Wall Street, should you take Wall Street speaking fees?
March 19, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (9)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr
By Ryan Chittum
March 16, 2012 08:35 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Nine Lives of a Disputed Fact A Politico op-ed fails the fact-checking test
March 16, 2012 03:45 PM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Sun’s Damon Discusses How She Got the Goods on NV Lawmakers Exposé on spending disclosures all started with a source
By Jay Jones
March 16, 2012 02:38 PM
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles Four decades of mystery, seven deadly sins in Las Vegas, and pro-frack America
By Alysia Santo
March 16, 2012 02:00 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Back to School with Santorum Journalists take a closer look at claims about his Penn State days
By Ken Knelly
March 16, 2012 01:37 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Tracking Campaign Cash in Colorado An interview with Denver Post reporter Karen Crummy
By Mary Winter
March 16, 2012 12:49 PM
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Currents
Words & Deeds Murdoch finds it’s not easy being green
March 16, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (9)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: 1966 Wages, Fracking’s Chickens and Eggs, Whistleblowers
By Ryan Chittum
March 16, 2012 02:35 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The NAA Newspaper Numbers
By Ryan Chittum
March 16, 2012 02:16 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Mad Libs, New York Times Executive Pay Edition
By Ryan Chittum
March 15, 2012 06:45 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Southern Polls: Going Beyond Hillbillies Even pushback against media meme invokes tired stereotypes
March 15, 2012 12:54 PM Comments (5)
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Currents
Shelf Life of… A Mort Zuckerman editor
By The Editors
March 15, 2012 06:00 AM
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The Audit
The Worst Personal-Finance Video Ever
By Felix Salmon
March 15, 2012 01:45 AM Comments (5)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit TV: Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?
By Ryan Chittum
March 14, 2012 07:58 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
WFTV’s Sensationalism Soils Solid Obama Sit-Down Orlando reporter suggests recent Afghanistan killings comparable to My Lai
March 14, 2012 04:55 PM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Univision Report Features Bo—And, Oh, Barack, Too Interview segment embraces White House’s light-touch frame
By Jay Jones
March 14, 2012 03:50 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs
By Ryan Chittum
March 14, 2012 02:06 PM Comments (6)
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Review
Your Black Muslim History A new book tackles issues larger than one murdered reporter
By Jess Mowry
March 14, 2012 12:12 PM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Repaving the Trail Campaign reporting can be terrible. Here’s how to make it better.
March 14, 2012 11:08 AM
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Letters to the Editor
Notes from our Online Readers Readers weigh in on Gordon's "Gender Imbalance on the Campaign Trail," and Fahy's "Media Made Hawking Famous."
By The Editors
March 14, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Fast Food Nation at 10, U.S. Inequality, Marilyn Hagerty
By Ryan Chittum
March 14, 2012 12:40 AM
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Behind the News
Stories I’d Like to See Afghan justice, Putin’s palace, and the Edwards trial
By Steven Brill
March 13, 2012 04:00 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
American Banker Delves into Debt-Collecting Woes at Chase
By Ryan Chittum
March 13, 2012 03:26 PM Comments (14)
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Campaign Desk
Is Buying Health Insurance Like Shopping on Amazon? No sirreeee, says WBUR
March 13, 2012 01:12 PM Comments (3)
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Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our January/February issue
By The Editors
March 13, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Charles Murray’s Lunch, Morgenson on Fairfax, Knight-Ridder’s iPad
By Ryan Chittum
March 12, 2012 07:59 PM Comments (1)
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The Observatory
Pessimism Reigns a Year After Fukushima Media forecast a gloomy future for the nuclear industry
March 12, 2012 05:00 PM Comments (7)
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Language Corner
Jibe Talking Confusion over jibe, jive, gibe, and gybe
March 12, 2012 11:59 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Should Health Journos Use Hospital Safety Data? An interview with Kaiser Health News's Jordan Rau
March 12, 2012 11:37 AM Comments (3)
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Cover Story
The Constant Gardener My two years tending AOL's hyperlocal experiment
By Sean Roach
March 12, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (19)
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Feature
Tim Armstrong Still Believes The AOL CEO tells why he's still betting on Patch
By The Editors
March 12, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (2)
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Feature
A Brief History of Hyperlocals Smells like town spirit
March 12, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
A Dim-Bulb Story From the Washington Post
By Ryan Chittum
March 9, 2012 07:58 PM Comments (7)
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Campaign Desk
Rick Santorum’s Math Problem The press doesn’t fall for his incorrect Obamacare answer
March 9, 2012 02:57 PM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
200 Years of Citi An alternate history
By Ryan Chittum
March 9, 2012 02:42 PM Comments (4)
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles Hyperlocal news, jam bands, and how to make a baby
By Alysia Santo
March 9, 2012 10:49 AM Comments (2)
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Editorial
Editor in Chief’s Note Congrats and goodbye to deputy editor Clint Hendler, and a call for photos of journalists on the job
March 9, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Tabloid Chutzpah, Paywall Performance, The Fed and Dividends
By Ryan Chittum
March 8, 2012 08:44 PM
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Review
Heap of Trouble Katherine Boo chronicles life inside a Mumbai slum
March 8, 2012 07:28 PM
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The Audit
The Justice Department and the Price of Books
By Ryan Chittum
March 8, 2012 07:10 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Ohio, a Spotlight on Super PAC Ads As a new campaign urges stations to reject misleading ads, how sharp is the conflict between conscience and cash?
By T.C. Brown
March 8, 2012 11:56 AM
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Currents
Hard Numbers Super PACs and Stephen Colbert
By The Editors
March 8, 2012 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Bloomberg’s Missing Billionaire
By Ryan Chittum
March 7, 2012 06:46 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, Borders & Bylines, The News Frontier
News Organizations That Haven’t Learned To Share The seams in certain outlets’ social sharing strategies
March 7, 2012 04:54 PM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Baby Boom Wasn’t That Big, WSJ
By Ryan Chittum
March 7, 2012 04:01 PM Comments (1)
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How Vladimir Putin Came to Power Masha Gessen takes a hard look at the Russian president
March 7, 2012 03:29 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
GlobalPost’s Charles Sennott: a progress report
By Olivia Smith
March 7, 2012 12:13 PM
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Behind the News
Stories I’d Like to See A hidden Gulf economy, Romney’s old taxes, and patent wars
By Steven Brill
March 7, 2012 11:26 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Context, and Political Theater, in North Carolina Why the press needs to tell the parts of the story Obama won’t
March 7, 2012 11:15 AM Comments (13)
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Editorial
Show us the Money Broadcasters and the FCC need to get political ad data online
By The Editors
March 7, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum
March 7, 2012 01:29 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Bloomberg, Uncovered A news organization that won't report on itself
By Ryan Chittum
March 6, 2012 06:23 PM Comments (6)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
When JFK made Santorum sick The press was too slow to supply the larger context
By Erika Fry
March 6, 2012 01:48 PM Comments (14)
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Behind the News
Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines Losing the count
By Erin Siegal
March 6, 2012 12:05 PM Comments (12)
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The Kicker
Flashback: Super Tuesday 2008 (Vote-zilla!!!)
March 6, 2012 11:16 AM
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Feature, The Audit
Infographic: What’s a CEO Worth? What Janet Robinson's golden parachute could buy
By Ryan Chittum
March 6, 2012 06:00 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Rocket Internet, Gas Taxes, The Price of Health Care
By Ryan Chittum
March 6, 2012 12:58 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WSJ on the Return of the Online Pet Food Store
By Ryan Chittum
March 5, 2012 05:41 PM
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Behind the News, Video
What’s In David Carr’s Backpack? The New York Times media columnist shows his stuff
By The Editors
March 5, 2012 02:32 PM
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Campaign Desk
NPR Rethinks Its Reporting Will "he said/she said" go away for good?
March 5, 2012 02:10 PM Comments (10)
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Language Corner
@#? How to quote e-mail, tweets, and such
March 5, 2012 01:04 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Currents
How I Got That Story Death Metal Angola
By The Editors
March 5, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The World’s Dumbest Press Conference How coverage of Joe Arpaio's birtherism threatens to make the myth worse
March 5, 2012 10:37 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Romney and the “Mormon Moment” Lots of fear and loathing from the pundit class
By Erika Fry
March 2, 2012 04:41 PM Comments (17)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
A Laurel to the Toledo Blade Paper challenges Romney on his manufacturing message
By T.C. Brown
March 2, 2012 04:33 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Michigan, Getting Beyond the ‘Class Divide’ HuffPost’s Blumenthal finds another good angle in the results
By Anna Clark
March 2, 2012 01:13 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Checkbook Journalism’s Slippery Slope Murdoch's scandals show why paying for news is a bad idea
By Ryan Chittum
March 2, 2012 10:47 AM
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Feature
Tongue Oppressor How Lukashenko's Belarus muzzles the press
March 2, 2012 06:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: William Cohan, Three Little Pigs, Recovery Spring
By Ryan Chittum
March 2, 2012 01:14 AM
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Opening Shot
Opening Shot Pinterest is the media's newest BFF
By The Editors
March 1, 2012 03:27 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
That Stuck Feeling The Huffington Post launches an ambitious new series on the poor and middle class
By Ryan Chittum
March 1, 2012 03:14 PM
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Behind the News
My Lawyer, Myself Suing the government for access to info, pro se
By Erin Siegal
March 1, 2012 02:01 PM Comments (3)
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The Observatory
Heartland, Gleick, and Media Law Experts weigh in on leaks and deceptive tactics
March 1, 2012 02:00 PM Comments (141)
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Reports
Newt and the Age Gap What young reporters don't understand
March 1, 2012 08:30 AM Comments (1)
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