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1. Behind the News

   Mob Mentality

   September 2, 2009 08:00 AM

   The New York Times had an interesting story on the stimulus earlier this week. Specifically, on the stimulus and—wait for it—the Mob. Quoting criminal investigators, the argument goes, basically, like this: Everyone wants a piece of the stimulus... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   The Economy Today: Profits and Losses

   August 31, 2009 01:44 PM

   In a twist on the reductive Main Street vs. Wall Street narrative in the government bailout story, the New York Times brings news that taxpayers are actually making a profit so far on all those TARP loans the... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Journalist feels neutral-to-negative about being profiled by the military

   August 28, 2009 01:21 PM

   P.J. Tobia, a writer and reporter based in Kabul, has gotten his hands on his Rendon report - the background brief that the Stars and Stripes recently reported is put together by the Pentagon to profile every journalist who applies... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   The Economy Today: On the Jobs

   August 28, 2009 12:34 PM

   Yesterday's New York Times featured a great article by Patrick McGeehan, headlined “Tallying Stimulus Jobs Not Easy in New York.” That wasn’t so hard to acknowledge, was it? Sometimes it’s important for the press to write about the... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Silencing the critics - Italy’s Berlusconi sues the competition

   August 28, 2009 12:10 PM

   Italian Prime Minister and media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi, is suing left-leaning newspaper, La Repubblica, along with papers in Britain and France, for defamation related to a string of sex scandals he has been embroiled in since... Continue reading

6. Behind the News

   Q & A: Charles Sennott

   August 28, 2009 06:30 AM

   GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott recently spoke to CJR about his news outlet’s recent partnering with MediaStorm for their multimedia story package on Afghanistan, called “Life, Death and the Taliban”—the first of what Sennott hopes will be many in-depth,... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Q & A: The New York Times’s Damon Winter

   August 13, 2009 09:05 AM

   Splashed across the front page of yesterday’s New York Times was a four-column photo of a man shouting at Sen. Arlen Specter at a town hall held earlier that morning in Lebanon, Pa., taken by photojournalist <a href=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/damon_winter/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=damon%20winter&st=cse... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   The Missing Link — How Not to Launch a Web Site

   August 11, 2009 12:05 PM

   File this one under: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks. Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune officially launched its ChicagoNow.com site, which brings together a network of more than 70 Chicago-related blogs written on a variety of subjects by a variety... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Town Hall Tumult

   August 6, 2009 03:38 PM

   August is typically a sleepy month for political news. Not this year. The raging health care debate has followed vacationing Congressmembers home; and as they hold town meetings across the land, they’re getting shouted down by protestors as... Continue reading

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