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The Death of Supply Column 21
November 1, 2006 08:30 AMThe Associated Press bureau that operated out of Saigon starting in mid-1965 was a great one — a place of legends, a bureau created by arguably the most underrated editor of that era. Wes Gallagher was new at his... Continue reading
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Bio
David Halberstam
David Halberstam shared the Pulitzer for International Reporting (with Malcolm Browne) in 1964 for their work in Vietnam. His twenty-first book, The Coldest Winter, about the Korean War, will be published next September by Hyperion. This piece is adapted from his foreword to Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, to be published next summer.
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The Audit Business
- Reuters’s OKC gusher Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
- Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
The Observatory Science
- Environment coverage TBD The Times says it’s committed, but only time will tell
- Call in the math club Science reporters can help ward off a “Big Data bubble”
United States Project Politics & Policy
- The Frank Luntz script for Congressional Republicans A guide to phrases journos should look for (and scrutinize)
- Hey readers: They’re bluffing! (maybe) The need to put political bargaining positions in context
Behind the News The Media
- German bill would charge for aggregation The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
- Gun permit data wasn’t maximized The choice that faced the Journal News was not simply whether to map gun permit holders’ addresses, but how
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