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The Kicker
Flip Through The Years, with Palin and Fey
February 9, 2010 11:08 AMThe Magazine Publishers of America and the American Society of Magazine Editors have jointly produced a neat little video that retells the story of the 00'-10' decade via magazine covers. Some are eerily prescient, like the ESPN Magazine... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Press After Citizens United
February 5, 2010 02:21 PMOver the last two weeks, reporters covering campaign finance have ably chronicled the scope and effects of the bitterly divided Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. They’ve filed stories reporting that decades, perhaps a century, of... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Washington Post Scrubs a Post about the Post
January 29, 2010 07:00 AMOn Wednesday, Bill Turque, the Washington Post’s education beat reporter, posted an excellent blog item showing his readers a little bit of the inside game at his paper. It was titled “One Newspaper, Two Stories”—a title that, by the end... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Administration says Open Gov Directive on track
January 14, 2010 04:23 PMWith about a week to go before their first deadline, the Obama administration is saying that the Open Government Directive, the keystone effort to increase online access to government data, is on schedule. In a public webcast on... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Deep Trouble
January 12, 2010 04:09 PMIs there a single journalistic quirk more likely to cause post-publication tsuris than the varying taxonomies of “off the record,” “background,” and “deep background”? This week’s reason to raise the question, is, of course, the controversy surrounding the comments of... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Source says: President likes Puppies, Rainbows
January 6, 2010 11:32 AMIn CJR's just published report card on the Obama administration's first year transparency record, I gave the White House an "F" for habitually doling out information and quotes to reporters via off the record background briefings. While noting... Continue reading
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Transparency
Report Card
January 5, 2010 12:00 AMIn the year since President Obama took office, he has made significant progress on transparency and access issues. Still, there have been plenty of missed opportunities and much work still to be done. State Secrets Background: Since it was formally... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Best of 2009: Clint Hendler
December 30, 2009 08:00 AMCarl Malamud, Public Printer You may have never heard of the Government Printing Office, a massive bureaucracy that’s responsible for disseminating—via the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, and the Federal Depository Library Program—massive amounts of information about the... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Q&A: Bill Leonard
December 18, 2009 02:47 PMYou’ve heard of the climate deadline looming in Copenhagen, and the health care deadline looming on Capitol Hill. But this season, there’s another deadline coming up that—shhh—hasn’t gotten much attention. If no changes or amendments are made to the Bush... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Not Quite Classified
December 15, 2009 04:12 PMThe Obama administration’s Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information has, per the president’s request in a May 2009 executive memorandum, returned a set of recommendations for reforming a lesser known aspect of government information policy. (<a href= http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/cui_task_force_rpt.pdf... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Shield after Senate Judiciary
December 14, 2009 04:21 PMLast Thursday, the journalism organizations at work on a shield bill won two victories in quick succession. In just about five minutes, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected an amendment that would have restricted the journalists and writers eligible for the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Settlement Reached on Bush Emails
December 14, 2009 04:09 PMPerhaps the most Byzantine of all Bush-era records scandals draws a step closer to ending today with the announcement by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive that they have reached a settlement with the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Easy on the eyes
December 11, 2009 10:31 AMDoes the below video, showing a souped-up prototype e-tablet version of Sports Illustrated, portend the future of magazines? I don't know, but it sure is purrdy. (And no, I'm not talking about the Swimsuit Edition digression...) Continue reading
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The Kicker
Senate Judiciary Considers Shield Bill, Part III
December 10, 2009 09:43 AMThe hearing has ended with the committee passing the bill. You can still read the once-live tweets from me and the Society of Professional Journalists below. Click the play button below to see live tweets from... Continue reading
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The Kicker
HuffPo: “Tiger Woods Sex (VIDEO)”
December 9, 2009 03:05 PMThe Huffington Post has reached a new level in its unending quest to to create “content” for the sake of internet searchers demand. This time the search engine optimization wizards are at work in the site’s Green vertical, with a... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Mark Knoller Knows
December 9, 2009 01:35 PMToday President Obama will slip into Air Force One, wing over to Oslo and, once again, touch foreign soil. Not so exceptional. To date, Obama has visited twenty countries as president, a travel pace that puts him ahead of... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
FOIA after the Open Government Directive
December 8, 2009 03:33 PMWith today's launch of the Obama administration's Open Government Plan, we’ve passed another milestone on the path towards a new era of transparency. And while governmental promises to emphasize transparency and collaboration are easily made, the Obama administration has made... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Open Government Plan Launches Today
December 8, 2009 10:19 AMAt 11am, the Obama Adminisitration's in house senior techies--Aneesh Chopra, the Chief Technology Officer, and Vivek Kundra, the Chief Information Officer--will be presenting the administration's Open Government Plan. Today's announcement brings to life Obama's charge, given on his... Continue reading
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The Kicker
“A closed meeting on openness”
December 7, 2009 12:44 PMThe AP has a hard-edged story bringing the news that a hall full of federal employees will be attending a Freedom of Information Act training meeting today put on in part by the Office of Government... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The walls come tumbling down…
December 3, 2009 01:08 PMRobert Wilonsky, a writer for the altweekly Dallas Observer, passes on a corporate memo that is reportedly causing unease among editorial staffers at the Dallas Morning News. Here's Wilonsky: As of yesterday, some section editors at all of... Continue reading
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