WTF! Where’s My Callback?

There’s time for a laugh in Albany

By Joel Meares   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM

Anyone who spends their time at a computer knows the joy of the witty e-mail exchange. And Albany's press bubble... More

“I will separate his head from his body”

Communications director wants to plug leak with machete

By Joel Meares   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM

It seems Governor Paterson’s communications director Peter Kauffmann has a bit of the Rahm Emanuel in him, if this e-mail... More

How To Leak A Political Scoop

It starts with an e-mail…

By Joel Meares   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM

How exactly do inside sources leak information to political reporters? Let Paterson communications director Peter Kauffmann show you. It all... More

“Not Putting This In An Email”

She must have known

By Joel Meares   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM

Perhaps Albany reporter Elizabeth Benjamin had an inkling that Governor Paterson’s communications director Peter Kauffmann’s e-mails would one day go... More

Salon’s Top 30 Hacks List Hits Hard

By Joel Meares   Nov 29, 2010 at 05:10 PM

So we were mostly out of the office when Salon published “The War Room Hack Thirty,” a list of what... More

WikiPublishers Face Their Readers

Times and Guardian Answer Questions on Leaks

By Joel Meares   Nov 29, 2010 at 04:14 PM

The two English-language newspapers given early access to the WikiLeaks diplomatic cable dump have published two very different Q&As with... More

Spy vs. Spy

Times and Guardian differ on WikiLeaks “spying” revelations

By Joel Meares   Nov 29, 2010 at 12:23 PM

The New York Times copped flak in October for what some perceived to be a watered-down reporting of the WikiLeaks... More

Reporting on Al-Qaeda’s English-Language Magazine

Proceed with caution

By Joel Meares   Nov 23, 2010 at 11:32 AM

Amid all the news about TSA scanners and full-body pat-downs this past week came a reminder of why the government... More

The Biggest Fish in Albany?

Liz Benjamin’s multimedia rise

By Joel Meares   Nov 22, 2010 at 10:57 AM

On one of her first days at Capital Tonight, the nightly political program she began hosting this year on New... More

I Have No Strings

Nicky Diaz back in the news, with her backers

By Joel Meares   Nov 19, 2010 at 01:34 PM

You’ll recall straw-that-broke-the-CEO’s-back Nicky Diaz Santillan, the former housekeeper to California’s unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. Diaz Santillan made well-orchestrated... More

Schwarzenegger a Rotten Tomato?

Golden State critics give governor the thumbs down

By Joel Meares   Nov 18, 2010 at 03:13 PM

For an action star who built a career out of mispronouncing words and blowing stuff up, Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t do... More

“WalmartAd” Ghost in the Daily Beast/Fox Machine

By Joel Meares   Nov 17, 2010 at 03:04 PM

We don’t want to kick anyone for what’s essentially a technical glitch—there but for the grace of choose-your-God go I—but... More

Palin Critiques Lamestream Media in Lamestream Media

Shows how to not meet the press

By Joel Meares   Nov 17, 2010 at 12:04 PM

Prolific political reporter Robert Draper has a 7,720-word piece on Sarah Palin in this weekend’s New York Times magazine, which,... More

Support Injured Photographer João Silva

By Joel Meares   Nov 17, 2010 at 11:11 AM

Last month, New York Times-contracted photographer João Silva stepped on a landmine near the southern Afghan town of Arghandab. Silva... More

Jim VandeHei Talks Politico Pro

“We’re going to dig really deep… really cover what’s happening.”

By Joel Meares   Nov 16, 2010 at 03:44 PM

Politico has just announced it will be launching a subscriber service, Politico Pro, next February. According to a press release,... More