Monthly Archive
August 2012
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Packing up and shipping out in Tampa Jeb Bush gives reporters one last local news hook on RNC's final night
August 31, 2012 03:00 PM
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles Printing the Internet and updating an office
August 31, 2012 02:50 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Parsing Romney on healthcare Chris Wallace gets a C minus
August 31, 2012 11:16 AM
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Economic Crisis, Swing States Project, The Audit
The Wall Street Journal lets Paul Ryan go all but unchecked Misleading claims get ignored or given he said-she said treatment
By Ryan Chittum
August 31, 2012 11:07 AM Comments (10)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
A dart to the AP—and a laurel! Good work on fact-checking speeches; on Social Security, not so much
August 31, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Wall Street sheriffs, preprints, Globalization and workers Supposedly in a "race to investigate, indict, subpoena and fine"
By Ryan Chittum
August 31, 2012 11:00 AM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
One last night on the outskirts in Tampa Welsh cakes, a protest that wasn't, and the rest of the scene from the RNC
August 31, 2012 08:48 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Read? Listen? Who has the time? At political conventions, journalists get preliterate
August 31, 2012 06:50 AM
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Don’t posit ‘what women think’ without quoting any Coverage of Ann Romney's RNC speech said she connected with women, but no female voices in the stories verified the claim
August 31, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (23)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: food politics and policy
August 31, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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The Observatory
Water woes Regional papers turn out series on sea level, drought
August 30, 2012 04:30 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
How ‘half true’ happens Our correspondent sits in as PolitiFact editors rate Nikki Haley's claim
August 30, 2012 04:09 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Checking the foundation of ‘We Built It’ In many Virginia papers, coverage of McDonnell's convention speech is a let-down
August 30, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (22)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Ignored factchecks and the media’s crisis of confidence Whatever campaigns may do, aggressive truth-telling is the right approach for reporters
August 30, 2012 11:05 AM Comments (21)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Murdoch’s hacking scandal, revolving door, Obama’s AMA Two more arrests, including one for computer hacking
By Ryan Chittum
August 30, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Florida, convention coverage ranges from abundant to absent The Tampa papers go all-in, while the Sun Sentinel goes missing
August 30, 2012 06:50 AM
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Are you too drunk to edit? A journalistic sobriety test for night editors, bloggers, and anyone covering an event with an open bar
By Ann Friedman
August 30, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: data journalism
August 30, 2012 06:50 AM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Following up on a promise of jobs The Salisbury Post in North Carolina talks to manufacturing workers still waiting on a call back to work
August 29, 2012 03:00 PM
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Finding the local in vast swathes of data An NPR map of 2010 census information is a great example of how reporters can make big data locally relevant
August 29, 2012 02:50 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
CNBC: kid gloves for bankers, boxing gloves for bank critics Interviews with Barofsky, Spitzer, and Krugman underscore the network's capture
By Ryan Chittum
August 29, 2012 12:13 PM Comments (12)
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Behind the News
How journalists helped stabilize a new Colombia Overcoming mountains and militias
August 29, 2012 11:13 AM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
A celebration of access in Tampa Conventions are about getting in to the place worth being
August 29, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: the national debt, Bailout, ProPublica on campaign finance GOP jujitsu on Obama and deficits
By Ryan Chittum
August 29, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: journalism business models
August 29, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Audit
The NYT’s weak coverage of rental-car consolidation With Hertz/Dollar Thrifty deal, three companies would have 94 percent of the market
By Ryan Chittum
August 28, 2012 11:12 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
It’s morning in the Tampa Convention Center Swing States Project’s Florida correspondent takes it all in
August 28, 2012 03:55 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Conventions: A great learning opportunity for voters Why the debate over a lack of news misses the point
August 28, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
Stories I’d like to see How would a woman "prove" rape to qualify for Romney's abortion exception?
By Steven Brill
August 28, 2012 10:52 AM
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The Kicker
Journalism crash course in Jersey
August 28, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: GOP gold bugs, too big to fail, Niall Ferguson The myth of hard money
By Ryan Chittum
August 28, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: tech
By Sang Ngo
August 28, 2012 06:50 AM
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Language Corner
Multiples choice Some singular help with plural possessives
August 27, 2012 03:00 PM
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Behind the News
Pasadena publisher launches a system for outsourcing local news “I’m looking for individuals I can pay a lower rate to do a lot of work,” says Journtent founder James Macpherson
August 27, 2012 02:47 PM Comments (10)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In defense of convention coverage Thoughts from a veteran political reporter who still gets butterflies
August 27, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (2)
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Currents, Swing States Project
Rethinking objectivity: a recall case An intern gets canned in Wisconsin because she signed a petition. Why?
August 27, 2012 10:52 AM Comments (17)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright Inventories pile up, posing another threat to the global economy
By Ryan Chittum
August 27, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Tampa Bay Times’s convention-eve welcome The paper’s Sunday piece is strong (cringe-making Florida boosterism aside)
August 27, 2012 06:50 AM
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Is Project Runway saving criticism? It may well be, Reality Check columnist Alissa Quart says
By Alissa Quart
August 27, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Kicker
Required skimming: journalism’s funny
August 27, 2012 06:50 AM
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Behind the News
Zenawi’s legacy and the future of free press in Ethiopia The architect of press-squelching laws is gone, but his policies seem to be thriving
August 25, 2012 04:08 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Michigan media on Romney’s birth certificate ‘joke’ (UPDATED) Some news outlets let it slide—unexplained, unchallenged
By Anna Clark
August 24, 2012 05:40 PM Comments (34)
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
August 24, 2012 04:04 PM
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles Punching up community radio in Iowa and punching out Mike Tyson in 8 bits
August 24, 2012 02:50 PM
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The Kicker
Realtime tips on how not to report a shooting
August 24, 2012 12:23 PM Comments (5)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The word on the street: apprehensive Listening to voters talk about Medicare in St. Louis
August 24, 2012 11:47 AM Comments (5)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’ A mess of a story on Facebook
By Ryan Chittum
August 24, 2012 06:50 AM
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Akin was wrong And journalists should've said so from the get-go, rather than simply reporting his comment
August 24, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: fossil fuels
August 24, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Gawker’s Bain scoop, file sharing and record sales, Niall Ferguson A document dump raises questions about tax strategies
By Ryan Chittum
August 24, 2012 01:55 AM
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Review: Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War How Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce helped keep a crooked railroad honest
By Bill Marx
August 23, 2012 03:05 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Fake military news site gains traction The Duffel Blog is becoming a satirical support source for soldiers
August 23, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Backstory: the reporter who interviewed Akin The Jaco Report reconsiders the moment
By Mike Hoyt
August 23, 2012 11:46 AM Comments (13)
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The Observatory
CBS goofs up the green beat Network fails to disclose M. Sanjayan’s affiliation and ties to source
August 23, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The New Yorker on Obama as fundraiser (UPDATED) Fascinating reporting but an overly sympathetic portrayal
By Ryan Chittum
August 23, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (2)
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To sell out or not to sell out? Is a journalism job you hate better than no journalism job at all?
By Ann Friedman
August 23, 2012 07:05 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: entertainment industry
August 23, 2012 06:50 AM
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Covering the databases Why journalists should be leading by example in the open data debate
August 22, 2012 04:45 PM
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The Kicker
Embed moderator
August 22, 2012 03:23 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Medicare and the $716 billion bogeyman Will a new version of a half-truth work for the GOP?
August 22, 2012 11:17 AM Comments (11)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Last week’s GOP local TV blitz What did candidates—and viewers—get from it?
August 22, 2012 11:00 AM
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Behind the News
Pomp and circumstance: How do Americans see the Brits? Two American correspondents tell how they explain British idiosyncrasies
August 22, 2012 11:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams Everyone but the magazine fact checks Niall Ferguson
By Ryan Chittum
August 22, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: Euro crisis
By Ryan Chittum
August 22, 2012 06:50 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Candidates clam up on climate Reporters call out Obama and Romney’s silence
August 21, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (17)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
‘That muddy water’ of fairness With “Line of Attack," Sun evaluates “legit," “laughable” campaign claims
By Jay Jones
August 21, 2012 03:00 PM
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Behind the News
The latest on Slatest Slate's news aggregation blog's revamp goes for quality over quantity
August 21, 2012 11:15 AM Comments (4)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Newsweek’s Niall Ferguson debacle A misleading cover story gets the wrong kind of buzz for Tina Brown's mag
By Ryan Chittum
August 21, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (34)
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Behind the News
Stories I’d like to see Fareed Zakaria's "mistake"
By Steven Brill
August 21, 2012 10:49 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Fake or real Jeff Jarvis?, Wolf on Ryan, robots and labor Replacing copyright with something called "creditright"
By Ryan Chittum
August 21, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: media news aggregators not named Romenesko
August 21, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (5)
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Language Corner
Pluralistic Those pesky possessives
August 20, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
Local news sites form new trade association “We are the future” says LION chairman Dylan Smith
August 20, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (4)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple’s ‘record’ value (CORRECTED) Microsoft's 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger
By Ryan Chittum
August 20, 2012 02:06 PM Comments (15)
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Behind the News
Profits vs. patients: The Tampa Bay Times complicates a story The truth in medical disputes can be hard to find
August 20, 2012 11:32 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Newspapers v. Postal Service, student debt, taxes
By Ryan Chittum
August 20, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
What makes Mitt tick? We need more tick-tock from the press pack about why Romney chose Paul Ryan
August 20, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: pop culture
August 20, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The Red and Black debacle An alumna of the University of Georgia's student paper weighs in on the battle between student editors and the board
August 19, 2012 07:40 AM Comments (2)
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The Observatory
UPI shirks responsibility Raeburn takes wire to task for cribbing from Science News
August 17, 2012 04:10 PM Comments (3)
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A laurel to The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta For calling on reporters to repeat the truth as often as needed, and showing how to do it
By Greg Marx
August 17, 2012 03:43 PM
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles Watching homicides in DC and a good dam love story in NC
August 17, 2012 02:58 PM
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
When hospital profits clash with patient care: an investigation The Times exposes questionable care at HCA hospitals
August 17, 2012 11:24 AM Comments (3)
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Currents
Darts and Laurels Sterile cuckoo
By Erika Fry
August 17, 2012 10:55 AM
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The Kicker
Chinese media push: background to today’s NYT story
August 17, 2012 06:51 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation When prices matter and when they don't
By Ryan Chittum
August 17, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project, The Observatory
Covering Romney in Ohio’s coal country Visit draws sharp questions from across state line, and solid stories from big-city papers
By T.C. Brown
August 17, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Kicker
Required skimming: unemployment
August 17, 2012 06:50 AM
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The media’s ‘happily ever after’ Why are women like Jennifer Aniston portrayed as sad and lonely if they aren't married?
August 17, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (7)
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Behind the News
Standards and double standards The New York Times lets some swears slide, but not others
August 16, 2012 06:38 PM
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Behind the News
In NYT’s search for transformation, Thompson a surprising choice "If Thompson manages more than failure, it will, in some ways, be an astonishing achievement"
By Emily Bell
August 16, 2012 05:48 PM
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Behind the News
Thompson has digital cred but faces challenges at NYT The former BBC director general was hired to guide the Times to a cross-platform future
August 16, 2012 04:45 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Ryan re-energizes coverage VP candidate brings fossil fuels, alternatives back into focus
August 16, 2012 04:30 PM
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Behind the News
Straight news from the citizens of Syria How reporters sort, organize—and verify—a flood of information from a chaotic civil war
By James Miller and Matt Sienkiewicz
August 16, 2012 03:37 PM Comments (1)
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Review: The Year of the Gadfly A teenage journalist finds herself in Jennifer Miller’s resonant first novel
By Matt B. Weir
August 16, 2012 03:32 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
A super resource on super PACs in Virginia Early coverage puts VPAP database to good use, but there are opportunities to do more
August 16, 2012 03:00 PM
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Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit
The WSJ editorial page and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan Bogus numbers and rewritten history
By Ryan Chittum
August 16, 2012 11:06 AM Comments (9)
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Currents
What’s in My…Purse Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly
August 16, 2012 10:58 AM
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The Kicker
Required skimming: design
August 16, 2012 06:50 AM
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Five types of problem writer And how to deal with each of them
By Ann Friedman
August 16, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (11)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Bill Black on CNBC, LAT eyes Ryan’s budget, robosigning The ex-regulator might as well have been beamed in by the Curiosity rover
By Ryan Chittum
August 16, 2012 02:44 AM Comments (20)
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The Kicker
UPDATED: Crime and punishment
August 15, 2012 04:30 PM Comments (4)
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Show, don’t tell Sometimes the way data is visualized is as important as the data itself
August 15, 2012 04:30 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates
August 15, 2012 03:25 PM Comments (12)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Don’t just look at the money—follow it! Can Michigan media tell us why a bailout opponent is collecting big bucks from Wall Street?
By Anna Clark
August 15, 2012 03:08 PM
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Short Takes
Old time, real time What if Jessica Mitford had been on Twitter?*
August 15, 2012 11:08 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
A sharp Herald item on Ryan’s surprising Cuba record Keyed to local community, paper digs up veep pick's past opposition to embargo
August 15, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
The media’s Internet infatuation
August 15, 2012 06:51 AM Comments (6)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Romney’s taxes, NBC’s win, turning off the Web
By Ryan Chittum
August 15, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: the neat-o list
By Sang Ngo
August 15, 2012 06:50 AM
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Sources for the information in Support Reporting video
August 14, 2012 10:53 PM
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What You Can Do
August 14, 2012 10:48 PM
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The Kicker
Fake Finke goes down (Updated)
August 14, 2012 04:23 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Assignment desk: The authoritative take
on Colorado’s controversial secretary of state A closer look at Scott Gessler could bring readers past the voter-fraud boilerplateBy Mary Winter
August 14, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Stories I’d like to see Questions for Ryan, working for welfare, updates on Olbermann and Facebook
By Steven Brill
August 14, 2012 11:32 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Estimating crowds: size matters Reporters wrestle with the numbers as Romney and Ryan draw larger audiences
August 14, 2012 11:11 AM
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The Kicker
Impeccable until the end
August 14, 2012 10:54 AM Comments (1)
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of Out on Assignment and Famous Long Ago
By James Boylan
August 14, 2012 10:49 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’ The Free Press, Star Tribune, and USA Today ask questions
By Ryan Chittum
August 14, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (7)
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Behind the News
Egyptian journos wary of recent government actions Newly appointed editors at state-owned publications and a court-ordered newspaper confiscation have journalists worried about press freedoms
By Jared Malsin
August 14, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Kicker
Required skimming: how campaigns work
By Greg Marx
August 14, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Romney’s Ryan taxes, FDR or Ayn Rand, Morton Mintz The Atlantic on what would be Mitt's "Path to Prosperity"
By Ryan Chittum
August 14, 2012 01:56 AM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
This is CNN?
August 13, 2012 07:10 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
HuffPost Live Launches It’s about conversations rather than citizen journalism, says founding editor Roy Sekoff
August 13, 2012 05:11 PM
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Language Corner
Lucky strike Not all fortunes are good
August 13, 2012 03:03 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The man who explains politics in—and to—PA When reporters need “here’s-what-it-all-means” context, they call Terry Madonna
By Ken Knelly
August 13, 2012 03:00 PM
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Drugs and the Olympics What if reporters imbedded with athletes during training?
August 13, 2012 02:56 PM
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Behind the News
Media restrictions tighten in Ethiopia One of the last remaining independent newspapers was recently shuttered by the government
August 13, 2012 10:58 AM Comments (3)
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On the Job
Boy on the bus Kid reporters hit the campaign trail
By The Editors
August 13, 2012 10:44 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Covering Paul Ryan’s big day in Virginia The Times-Dispatch casts a wide net to deliver a strong package for its readers
August 13, 2012 07:00 AM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
CNNMoney can’t find the workers, either A model story for the iffy skills-gap meme
By Ryan Chittum
August 13, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (4)
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Collapsing the line between documentary and fiction A new film, The Ambassador, exhibits "performance journalism," a combination of art and reporting
By Alissa Quart
August 13, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: higher education
By Peter Sterne
August 13, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Google moves on copyright, The Daily Shoe, Olympics As its business interest aligns with content producers
By Ryan Chittum
August 10, 2012 09:28 PM
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The News Frontier
The Kickstarter Chronicles Two region-focused publications: one in New York, the other in the Upper Midwest
August 10, 2012 05:00 PM
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The Observatory
Sex and sensationalism Researchers accuse press of ‘licentious’ coverage of animal studies
August 10, 2012 04:30 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The best political listening tour “Ordinary person” quotes in political stories can be banal. But when reporters invest the time, they can hear so much more
August 10, 2012 03:00 PM
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
False balance on Romney’s bogus welfare reform attack He said-she said from the FT, and a weak showing from the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum
August 10, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (10)
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Currents
Back from the dead Zombie mags!
By The Editors
August 10, 2012 11:00 AM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Defining ‘open and accessible’ in Charlotte Why reporters should write about the obstacles to covering the Democratic convention
August 10, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Covering the Sinai Peninsula As the need for information grows, so do the reporting risks
By Jared Malsin
August 10, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Kicker
Required skimming: space and astronomy
August 10, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: WSJ forgets climate change, Reuters results, Murdoch hides A story on the record heat wave omits global warming
By Ryan Chittum
August 10, 2012 01:24 AM Comments (68)
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Behind the News
A tale of two Finkes Deadline Hollywood doyenne Nikki Finke is not amused by the fake Twitter account in her name
August 9, 2012 08:44 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Ohio, misleading messages about military voting The state's major papers challenge claims about the motives behind an Obama lawsuit
By T.C. Brown
August 9, 2012 03:30 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
How to measure the worth of Social Security The AP rehashes an old idea
August 9, 2012 02:50 PM Comments (32)
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Currents
Language Corner Author! Author!
August 9, 2012 11:18 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
I tweet therefore I can Whose job is it to make sure tweeters stay within the law?
August 9, 2012 10:42 AM
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The Audit
The New York Times prepares to leave the content farm The sale of About.com would leave a pure-play newspaper company
By Ryan Chittum
August 9, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (13)
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Journalists vs. curators Can't we all just get along?
By Ann Friedman
August 9, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Kicker
Required skimming: hyperlocal
August 9, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Kicker
NYT uses false balance while reporting on false balance
August 8, 2012 05:55 PM Comments (6)
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Between the Spreadsheets CJR and the Tow Center's new column on data visualization takes on the Olympics
August 8, 2012 04:30 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
On Vegas reporters on Reid on Romney How Reid’s evidence-free claims about Romney’s taxes were covered in the Senate Majority Leader’s home state
By Jay Jones
August 8, 2012 03:00 PM Comments (7)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
A welcome spotlight on trade deals Reuters's Johnston goes to Korea to look at the prospects of a new agreement
By Ryan Chittum
August 8, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (7)
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Review
All on the same page A new essay collection suggests technology will enhance book culture, not kill it
August 8, 2012 10:31 AM
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The Observatory
The science of performance Reuters writer reviews the research amid London Olympics
August 8, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: healthcare politics and policy
August 8, 2012 06:50 AM
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Campaign Desk
What makes Paul Ryan tick? The New Yorker defines the man who would remake the government
August 8, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (16)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Auditor conflicts, Frannie holdup, London Whale pressured The latest money-laundering scandal points to problems with a business model
By Ryan Chittum
August 8, 2012 01:11 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, The News Frontier
‘Open’ in the age of live tweeting How UNITY 2012's student newsroom taught NAHJ a lesson about social media
August 7, 2012 03:53 PM Comments (5)
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Behind the News
Breaking news: This minority group is different There are many times that journalists can cover non-mainstream communities, not just during a crisis
By Tanveer Ali
August 7, 2012 02:50 PM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Another factchecking fiasco Journalistic failure in coverage of Harry Reid and his mysterious source
August 7, 2012 01:00 PM Comments (39)
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The Kicker
Remembering Judith Crist
August 7, 2012 12:53 PM Comments (1)
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The Research Report
Sounds about right Talking up talk radio
By Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink
August 7, 2012 10:56 AM Comments (3)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Singing on Libor, another bank scandal, Star Tribune The NYT on how banks are turning each other in
By Ryan Chittum
August 7, 2012 06:50 AM
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The Kicker
Required skimming: music
August 7, 2012 06:50 AM
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Language Corner
Shhh! It doesn’t matter A “moot” discussion
August 6, 2012 04:28 PM
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The Observatory
Muller’s media circus Did the press fall for a climate-change publicity stunt?
August 6, 2012 12:00 PM Comments (19)
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ESPN’s Tim Tebow lovefest Shut out of the Olympics, the 'Worldwide Leader In Sports' puts NFL front and center
August 6, 2012 11:11 AM Comments (1)
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Behind Big Oil, the original big business A review of Steve Coll’s Private Empire
August 6, 2012 11:00 AM
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Review
Deconstruction boom Barlett & Steele hammer away, again, at the middle-class decline
August 6, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Romney likes Israeli healthcare And the press takes a look at what it is. Whoa!
August 6, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: Libor
By Ryan Chittum
August 6, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (2)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: California’s Enron echoes, Sox toolbox, the Dow’s decade LAT on allegations that JPMorgan manipulated markets
By Ryan Chittum
August 5, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Washington Post’s not-so-good earnings report The paper puts a positive spin on another poor quarter
By Ryan Chittum
August 3, 2012 03:39 PM Comments (9)
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Currents
Title Search Taxonomist
By Jay Woodruff
August 3, 2012 03:15 PM
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For Obama in Ohio, a mix of substance and pageantry In Akron, coverage leans too far toward softer stuff, but other outlets do better
By T.C. Brown
August 3, 2012 03:00 PM
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The Kickstarter Chronicles Time-lapse videos of tilt-shifted fish and books about hyperlocal architecture
August 3, 2012 02:50 PM
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Would the GOP turn away from the uninsured? NPR identifies the party’s new thinking
August 3, 2012 11:26 AM Comments (8)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Why did Mitt Romney really go to Israel? Despite what you read, it probably had little to do with wooing undecided Jewish voters
August 3, 2012 11:03 AM
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The Olympics’s women coverage It should be about female athletes' achievements, but it's often more focused on their chromosomes
August 3, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Required skimming: literary criticism
August 3, 2012 06:50 AM
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Gore-ing of Mitt Romney Poisonous cycle of gotcha coverage and access restrictions recalls an earlier campaign
August 2, 2012 02:58 PM Comments (12)
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Cell coverage How a convicted murderer found his true calling as a jailhouse reporter and prisoners' rights crusader
By Alysia Santo
August 2, 2012 11:15 AM Comments (22)
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In sports or politics, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard Times-Dispatch coverage of voter registration controversy skimps on partisan angle
August 2, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The AP’s North Korea bureau Yep, they’ve had one, based in the country’s capital, for seven months
August 2, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (3)
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Work/life trend pieces and when journalistic heroes fall, literally Ann Friedman answers all your (journalism) questions
By Ann Friedman
August 2, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (4)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: Taibbi on TBTF, the paranoid rich, Olympics An NYT op-ed elides some critical context
By Ryan Chittum
August 2, 2012 06:50 AM Comments (8)
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Required skimming: campaign finance
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The Observatory
The bright-young-things hypothesis Jonah Lehrer’s mistakes are not our fault
August 1, 2012 05:30 PM Comments (11)
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
Dart to HuffPo for ‘awesome scoop’ For enabling Harry Reid’s game of telephone sourcing on Romney's taxes
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx
August 1, 2012 05:15 PM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop A needlessly flattering hedge fund profile omits the basics
By Ryan Chittum
August 1, 2012 11:10 AM Comments (1)
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Currents
Hard Numbers How genuine are those followers on Twitter?
By The Editors
August 1, 2012 11:08 AM Comments (1)
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Economic Crisis, The Audit
Audit Notes: News Corp.’s board, Romney’s taxes, NBC’s Olympics The paper reports prosecutors are examining whether to charge Murdoch's directors
By Ryan Chittum
August 1, 2012 06:50 AM
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Required skimming: sports
August 1, 2012 06:50 AM
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