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1. The Kicker

   Senate Judiciary Considers Shield Bill, Part II

   December 3, 2009 10:06 AM

   The hearing has ended, but click the replay button below to see once-live tweets from myself, the Society of Professional Journalists, and Chris Anderson, a professor at the College of Staten Island.... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   FDA Pressed on Interview Policy

   December 2, 2009 02:52 PM

   Today, a coalition of media organizations including the Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers demanded that the Food and Drug Administration stop requiring that its employees get official clearance before speaking with reporters. From... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   But How Will it Play in Puli Khumri?

   December 2, 2009 01:26 PM

   President Obama’s speech last night, concerning America’s path forward in Afghanistan, was primarily directed at a domestic audience. Obama had many tasks he hoped to accomplish with the speech, chief among them convincing his fellow citizens that our national interests... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Stay Classy, 1938 Style

   December 1, 2009 10:32 AM

   Of all the way to address Salahi-gate, Henry Morgenthau III's reminiscence in today's New York Times has to be the classiest. The son of FDR's Treasury secretary tells the story of a young couple who talked their way... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   “For those who have paid for the privilege of being a journalist with their own blood”

   November 30, 2009 03:51 PM

   The New Yorker's George Packer has a clear-eyed report from a recent fundraising dinner hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists: The event allows CPJ to continue for another year doing its job of defending journalists around the... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   A Clean Start at the NewsHour

   November 30, 2009 11:55 AM

   It seems that no news organization, no matter how long they’ve been using their tried and true formula, is immune from shake-ups these days. So it is over at my old employer, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. After three decades... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Rudy FAIL

   November 25, 2009 10:42 AM

   Read along as The New York Observer’s Steve Kornacki applies a little egg to the Daily News’s face over a so-far-so-untrue claim that appeared in the paper’s pages last week. Rudy Giuliani, the big scoop went, had... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Newsom stays on the record

   November 24, 2009 01:42 PM

   I have a lot of respect for local television reporters who can go in and conduct a really tight and tough interview when the cameras are rolling. Earlier this week, Hank Plante, a veteran reporter for KPIX, a Bay Area... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Sudokubomber Caught

   November 24, 2009 12:44 PM

   In case you’ve missed it, The Philadelphia Inquirer has been in the middle of a scandal for the last three weeks. A sudoku scandal. On October 24, the paper hosted this year’s Sudoku National Championship, where a theretofore unknown... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Greg Craig and Transparency

    November 20, 2009 04:43 PM

    Time’s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have a months long tick-tock chronicling the steps and missteps of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Greg Craig. There’s too much good stuff in there to bother with a block quote. In... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Senate Judiciary Considers Shield Bill, Live!

    November 19, 2009 10:18 AM

    Click the play button below to see my live tweets as the Senate considers the Free Flow of Information Act. You can stream the hearing live at the Senate Judiciary site. The hearing has ended, but you... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    CJR on The Radio

    November 17, 2009 02:04 PM

    This morning, I was a guest on The Exchange, a New Hampshire Public Radio talk show. Up for discussion was the contemporary legal landscape as the First Amendment and shield laws meet the internet age. The Granite... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    The Blade’s Last Cut

    November 17, 2009 12:18 PM

    Via @jackshafer, I came across this moving, photo-heavy blog post from the Washington City Paper recording the sudden and unexpected death of the Washington Blade, one of the most prominent and valued publications in the gay... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Journalism’s Valhalla?

    November 16, 2009 11:33 AM

    The Chronicle of Higher Education has invited Michael Schudson and Leonard Downie to follow-up on one of the recommendations their “Reconstruction of American Journalism” report put forward: that universities, which have long provided institutional support for independent knowledge... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Meacham’s Minds

    November 16, 2009 09:50 AM

    Today's otherwise wholly unremarkable New York Times write-up on Newsweek's editorial and financial health does contain the seeds of an interesting parlor game: whose heads-as-busts adorn editor Jon Meacham's desk? The original photo... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Another Deficit

    November 13, 2009 02:52 PM

    A short note, coming off of Greg’s earlier post on some federal deficit confusion over at Politico. To summarize, the piece focuses on the White House’s supposed new emphasis on deficit reduction. One possible... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    It’s all about perspective…

    November 13, 2009 12:02 PM

    ...and Sarah Palin has, inevitably, a unique take on her impossible-to-overhype-the-importance-of campaign interview with CBS's Katie Couric, as summarized by the AP from the onetime VP-candidate/governor's forthcoming memoir: She says that the idea to meet with Couric came... Continue reading

18. Critical Eye

    Bomb Squad

    November 12, 2009 03:13 PM

    A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America | By Peter Richardson | The New Press | 272 pages, $25.95 It only took a few years for Ramparts to evolve from an earnest... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    A Shield for Bloggers?

    November 12, 2009 09:28 AM

    It’s been a long, winding journey for the shield law. But the bill, which would provide journalists with some protection from being forced to testify in federal cases, has never appeared closer to becoming a reality than it does today.... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Culture Clash

    November 11, 2009 03:35 PM

    Here's a illustrative moment, retold by "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" author Ken Auletta to Howard Kurtz this past weekend on CNN's Reliable Sources: KURTZ: Now, Google also trying to build a vast online library,... Continue reading

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