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  1. Swing States Project

    The Oklahoman distributes a hit piece on Obama

    September 28, 2012 05:12 PM

    On September 20, The Washington Examiner, one of DC’s conservative newspapers, published “The Obama You Don’t Know,” a 10-part “Special Report” drawn from a four-month investigation of President Obama’s pre-presidential narrative. The Examiner report, which fits neatly... Continue reading

  2. Swing States Project

    In Iowa, a ‘flag flap’ flop?

    September 14, 2012 02:50 PM

    IOWA — Appearances by President Obama have become a bit old-hat in Iowa, one of the nation’s most contested swing states. When Obama and Joe Biden appeared at a campaign rally on the University of Iowa campus on Sept. 7,... Continue reading

  3. Currents

    Darts and Laurels

    August 17, 2012 10:55 AM

    In August 2002, Winston-Salem Journal reporter John Railey was part of a team of reporters assigned to a story he couldn’t believe was true. “I was like, ‘No, this didn’t happen in my state,’” he says... Continue reading

  4. Behind the News

    Firings raise questions at Alabama Public Television

    June 27, 2012 11:07 AM

    In May 2011, the Birmingham Business Journal named Allan Pizzato, the executive director of the recession-tested Alabama Public Television, “nonprofit CEO of the year.” Since 2008, APT had seen its state funding cut in half, and the Business... Continue reading

  5. The Kicker

    Escape from Thailand: Epilogue

    June 25, 2012 11:30 AM

    In September, I wrote the long and unusual story of how I had become the subject of an arrest warrant in Thailand. At its heart was a dissertation on organic asparagus. The story began in 2009, when I... Continue reading

  6. The Kicker

    Rubio and Univision: Détente

    June 20, 2012 03:00 PM

    Just months ago, it seemed quite plausible that Florida’s much-in-the-news Hispanic Senator Marco Rubio might never speak to the Florida-based Spanish language media juggernaut Univision again. The senator and the network had gotten in a complicated and high-profile tiff—which we... Continue reading

  7. The Kicker

    Another case of the racy emails

    June 14, 2012 10:29 AM

    Earlier this week, I wrote about media coverage surrounding the “racy emails” that led to Des Moines, IA, school superintendent Nancy Sebring’s resignation. Sebring’s emails—I’d classify them as “really really embarrassing” before I’d call them “racy”—received attention on... Continue reading

  8. The Kicker

    Don’t think pink

    June 12, 2012 01:37 PM

    Hey journalists, how do you navigate the “pink ghetto”? For starters, try changing the language used to describe topics traditionally considered “women’s issues,” OpEd Project founder Katie Orenstein said on Monday night. She spoke on a panel called... Continue reading

  9. Behind the News

    The superintendent’s racy emails

    June 11, 2012 03:45 PM

    In early May, Nancy Sebring, the superintendent of the Des Moines public school system, abruptly resigned; her resignation was accepted by the school board in a closed meeting. The resignation was unusual, not just for its suddenness—Sebring was scheduled... Continue reading

  10. The Kicker

    In Thailand, moderate comments or go to jail

    June 4, 2012 11:00 AM

    For 20 days in the 2010, a user comment, later deemed by Thai officials as offensive to the king, was posted to a message board on the Thai news website Prachatai. Last Wednesday, Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the... Continue reading

  11. The Kicker

    Election 2012 coverage: another gender gap

    May 31, 2012 04:04 PM

    Earlier this week, I wrote about the persisting gender gap in opinion media. Women’s voices were especially lacking in legacy media, and on ‘hard news’ topics like the economy and politics—both of which are just as much women’s... Continue reading

  12. Behind the News

    It’s 2012 already: why is opinion writing still mostly male?

    May 29, 2012 06:50 AM

    “Man. Man. Man. Man. Man. Man.” I had Sue Horton, the Op-ed and Sunday opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times on the phone one morning in early March. She was flipping through her slush pile of op-eds, calling... Continue reading

  13. Q and A

    Exit Interview

    May 22, 2012 06:50 AM

    In 1979, Brian Lamb, then the head of Cablevision’s DC bureau, achieved what now seems unimaginable: He convinced Congress and cable executives to back his plan to create a nonprofit that would broadcast the proceedings of the House... Continue reading

  14. Swing States Project

    For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers

    May 15, 2012 06:50 AM

    When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt Romney’s easy victory in the state’s April 24 primary. Santorum also dashed the expectations of his home state’s broadcasters, who... Continue reading

  15. The Kicker

    So you think you can dance?

    May 11, 2012 11:56 AM

    Sarah Tressler, the Houston Chronicle society reporter who was fired in March shortly after the Houston Press exposed she also moonlighted as a stripper at Houston’s high-end gentlemen clubs—and blogged about it under the <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/angrystripper"... Continue reading

  16. The Kicker

    Nikki Haley Strikes a Pose

    April 26, 2012 11:09 AM

    The intersecting sliver of the “Tea Party”-“Vogue” Venn diagram would seem to be a razor-thin one, but the latest politician to receive characteristic puff-piece treatment from the fashion magazine is Tea Party darling (circa 2010)-turned-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley,... Continue reading

  17. Behind the News

    Looking beyond Kony

    April 20, 2012 08:59 AM

    In Kenya in early March, a grenade blast linked to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab killed six people and injured 63. Despite the isolated nature of the incident, CNN International reported the story as if the violence were widespread; on the... Continue reading

  18. Behind the News

    Freelancers on the Front Lines

    April 17, 2012 12:06 PM

    It was almost one year ago that photojournalist and Restrepo director Sebastian Junger lost his good friend and colleague, Tim Hetherington, to a shrapnel wound suffered while covering the conflict in Libya. Photojournalist Chris Hondros was also killed, and two... Continue reading

  19. Behind the News

    The AOL-HuffPost Show: Who’s Really in Control?

    April 11, 2012 12:10 PM

    Last Thursday, The New York Times ran a story titled “Huffington Gains More Control in AOL Revamping.” Later that day, Business Insider challenged that account, blogging: “Actually, Arianna Huffington Has Been Demoted.” By Friday morning,... Continue reading

  20. Campaign Desk

    Romney, BuzzFeed, and that “Hidden” Op-Ed

    March 21, 2012 12:05 PM

    It was four o’clock on a Friday afternoon when BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, a 22-year old student at St. John’s College, made a serendipitous discovery. Kaczynski, who has already generated a lot of buzz this election season... Continue reading

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