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Guide to Online News Startups
Washington Independent Review of Books
October 26, 2011 06:13 PMWASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — When newspapers across the country have to cut costs, their book sections inevitably end up on the chopping block. David... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
Berkeleyside
October 26, 2011 06:00 PMBERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Frances Dinkelspiel had worked as a journalist for two decades--reporting for the Syracuse Newspapers and the San Jose Mercury News--before she and... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
The Ithaca Independent
October 24, 2011 04:57 PMITHACA, NEW YORK — The major daily paper of Ithaca, N.Y., the Ithaca Journal, is, like eighty-two other daily papers in America, part of the... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
OpenSecrets.org
May 20, 2011 01:35 PMWASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — In 1983, Senators Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) founded the Center for Responsive Politics in order to "track money... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
VTDigger.org
March 25, 2011 03:09 AMMONTPELIER, VERMONT — As the name suggests, VTDigger (pronounced "V.T. Digger," not "Vermont Digger") aims to provide deep coverage of local issues in the Green... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Heisman Educators
December 19, 2008 03:09 PMIn his latest piece in the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell turns his attention to hiring practices: There are certain jobs where almost nothing you can learn about candidates before they start predicts how they’ll do once... Continue reading
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Overload!
Linked Out
December 3, 2008 12:00 PMLike most people my age, I get most of my news online. I begin the day by checking The New York Times, The Washington Post, and several local papers and blogs. There's only so much news I can read... Continue reading
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The Observatory
Covering Obvious Conclusions
November 24, 2008 05:43 PMSeveral newspapers recently published articles about a new study of children and their Internet usage. The version in The New York Times, by Tamar Lewin, begins like this: Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Barack-A-Bye Babies
November 17, 2008 04:35 PMFrom Newsweek comes information that the jubilation inspired by the victory of Barack Obama in the recent presidential election may trigger something of a baby boom in August, 2009: In the hours and days since Obama's victory,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The McKinley Problem
October 28, 2008 01:49 PMYesterday was the 150th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's birth. Aside from several bully celebrations of the late president’s life and times, this anniversary also inspired comparisons to the current slate of presidential candidates. Who best embodies the Rough... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Red And The Black
October 15, 2008 03:48 PMBarack Obama. He's black. He's got a funny name. He's rather liberal. All of these things are somewhat novel in the annals of American presidential politics, and journalists have a hard time figuring out how to treat them. On The... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Palin and the Senate
October 2, 2008 10:15 PMWhat does she mean about the relationship with the senate? A greater role? That moment resembled her Couric interview. Continue reading
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The Kicker
Interesting Questions
October 2, 2008 10:12 PMI think the questions here are very interesting. What campaign promises are you planning to break? How will your administration be different from that of your running mate? He's not answering but it's very interesting. Interesting. "A team of Mavericks."... Continue reading
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The Kicker
John McCain knows how to win a war
October 2, 2008 10:08 PMWhich war did he win? Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Tricky Rick
September 24, 2008 03:11 PMAfter the New York Times wrote about how John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis had been paid some $30,000 a month for five years as president of the Homeownership Alliance, McCain explained that Davis has not... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Beg, Borrow, or Steal An Opinion
September 23, 2008 12:43 PMEveryone loves to talk about John McCain's complicated relationship with the media. CJR has previously considered The New York Times’s relationship with the McCain campaign. The latest news from the campaign... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
McCain The “Modernist”
September 19, 2008 01:45 PMWriters are often instructed to avoid the use of vague or contentious words. Immediately following September 11, 2001, some editors even told journalists to eschew the word terrorist, as it is an ill-defined and pejorative term. But what... Continue reading
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The Kicker
I LUV NYC
August 27, 2008 05:23 PMI’m not sure if this latest gem from The New York Times actually deserves analysis, since the title of the article—“Newcomers Adjust, Eventually, to New York”—pretty much explains what’s wrong. But, I guess, having wondered for <a href=http://newyork.freeblogit.com/2008/06/10/new-york/... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Beer Baroness
August 25, 2008 05:13 PMIt has always been unclear how to properly address the role of family money when covering a political candidate. But last week, after the senior senator from Arizona had a decidedly senior moment when asked to recall how... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Oh, Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children?
August 13, 2008 05:16 PMFrom Pajamas Media comes the upsetting news that more teenagers than ever before are now using heroin: Why is this addictive opiate making its way through the suburbs, taking down kid after kid while the parents remain... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme
- Hot air Rises Above on CNBC An anchor pins a minor dip in stocks on the TV appearance of a minor politician
The Observatory Science
- Dull news from Doha UN climate summit a ho-hum affair for the press
- Highway to the danger zone Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development
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- NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting People perspective leads to clear explanation of impact of proposed changes
- In Pennsylvania, a niche site with wide reach PoliticsPA drives political conversation in Keystone State
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