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1. Guide to Online News Startups

   Washington Independent Review of Books

   October 26, 2011 06:13 PM

   WASHINGTON, 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

2. Guide to Online News Startups

   Berkeleyside

   October 26, 2011 06:00 PM

   BERKELEY, 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

3. Guide to Online News Startups

   The Ithaca Independent

   October 24, 2011 04:57 PM

   ITHACA, 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

4. Guide to Online News Startups

   OpenSecrets.org

   May 20, 2011 01:35 PM

   WASHINGTON, 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

5. Guide to Online News Startups

   VTDigger.org

   March 25, 2011 03:09 AM

   MONTPELIER, 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

6. Behind the News

   Heisman Educators

   December 19, 2008 03:09 PM

   In 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

7. Overload!

   Linked Out

   December 3, 2008 12:00 PM

   Like 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

8. The Observatory

   Covering Obvious Conclusions

   November 24, 2008 05:43 PM

   Several 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

9. The Kicker

   Barack-A-Bye Babies

   November 17, 2008 04:35 PM

   From 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

10. Campaign Desk

    The McKinley Problem

    October 28, 2008 01:49 PM

    Yesterday 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

11. Campaign Desk

    The Red And The Black

    October 15, 2008 03:48 PM

    Barack 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

12. The Kicker

    Palin and the Senate

    October 2, 2008 10:15 PM

    What does she mean about the relationship with the senate? A greater role? That moment resembled her Couric interview. Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Interesting Questions

    October 2, 2008 10:12 PM

    I 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

14. The Kicker

    John McCain knows how to win a war

    October 2, 2008 10:08 PM

    Which war did he win? Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Tricky Rick

    September 24, 2008 03:11 PM

    After 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

16. Campaign Desk

    Beg, Borrow, or Steal An Opinion

    September 23, 2008 12:43 PM

    Everyone 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

17. Campaign Desk

    McCain The “Modernist”

    September 19, 2008 01:45 PM

    Writers 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

18. The Kicker

    I LUV NYC

    August 27, 2008 05:23 PM

    I’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

19. Campaign Desk

    Beer Baroness

    August 25, 2008 05:13 PM

    It 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

20. The Kicker

    Oh, Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children?

    August 13, 2008 05:16 PM

    From 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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