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The News from Norway
January 5, 2011 12:18 PM
Norwegian Newspapers in America: Connecting Norway and the New Land by Odd S. Lovoll | MHS Press | 432 pages, $24.95 If you happened to pick up Odd S. Lovoll’s sixth book, Norwegian Newspapers in America, you might wonder, “Why... Continue reading
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Missouri Senate Race: Three Things You Oughta Know
August 2, 2010 12:03 PM
On Tuesday, August 3, Missouri will hold its U.S. Senate primaries. In November, the victors will face off to fill the seat of Christopher “Kit” Bond, a popular Republican senator who has been in office since 1986. Despite some... Continue reading
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Hot Zone
July 19, 2010 11:43 AM
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier | By Imtiaz Gul | Viking | 320 pages, $26.95 Lawless. The word tends to travel in tandem with Pakistan’s tribal areas. Sometimes you also get wild, often restive, and the occasional seething.... Continue reading
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Oh goody, it’s Time for a list!
April 29, 2010 01:27 PM
The TIME 100 is the magazine’s yearly compilation of the “people who most affect our world,” as determined by people at Time. Now in its seventh year, the issue includes comforting standbys (Oprah makes an appearance every year), and... Continue reading
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More on Fox News’s Magnificent Money Machine
January 12, 2010 01:36 PM
Sunday’s New York Times profile of Roger Ailes claims that Fox News “is believed to make more money than CNN, MSNBC and the evening newscasts of NBC, ABC and CBS combined.” Monday’s Financial Times showcases Newsmax,... Continue reading
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Steele: “The Internet has been around a while, now,” and Other Musings
October 14, 2009 03:25 PM
The new Republican National Committee Web site launched yesterday with fanfare, frequent crashes, and baffling word choice. RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s blog debuted under the name “What Up?,” reflecting the chairman’s longstanding promise to “take this party to... Continue reading
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Notes from A.Q. Khan
October 8, 2009 12:25 PM
The Pakistani press is in a fascinating uproar about the Kerry-Lugar aid bill, which the Pakistani military contends violates Pakistan’s sovereignty. (Foreign Policy’s Blake Hounshell writes that, in going public with their objections to conditions in the... Continue reading
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How To Spend It
October 5, 2009 04:11 PM
Print subscribers to the Financial Times have long enjoyed an advantage over more casual Web readers, and that is access to the FT’s magazine, “How to Spend It.” The luxury lifestyle weekly caters to that rarefied tax bracket likely to... Continue reading
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Parsing Iran’s Election Results
June 16, 2009 03:45 PM
Writing in The Washington Post this morning, Glenn Kessler and Jon Cohen tackle the known unknowns of the Iranian election: There were few independent polls taken before the election and no exit polls afterward, making it extremely difficult... Continue reading
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“Where’s Rafsanjani?”
June 16, 2009 01:58 PM
The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall asks a question that more journalists should be asking: “Where’s Rafsanjani?” Reportorial shorthand gives the impression that ultimate control of Iran’s politics resides with Supreme Leader Khameini. But while he exercises supreme executive power,... Continue reading
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With God On Our Side
June 3, 2009 10:34 AM
How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror By Reza Aslan | Random House | 256 pages, $26 How to Win a Cosmic War is a work whose apocalyptic title... Continue reading
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McChrystal Clear
May 13, 2009 01:14 PM
On Monday afternoon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that Defense Secretary Robert Gates Army General asked the top American commander in Afghanistan, David McKiernan, for his resignation less than one year into the job, citing a need for... Continue reading
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Happy Grammar Day!
March 4, 2009 12:00 PM
It’s a big week for geeks. Yesterday, the IT guy just told me, was square root day. On 3/3/09, the day and the month were both the square root of the last two digits of the year. (If... Continue reading
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A New Foreign Policy
February 5, 2009 09:58 AM
A month ago, Foreign Policy magazine debuted a new cast of bloggers at its Web site. It’s a pretty dramatic Web-forward manifestation of a publication that spent the first thirty years of its life as a quarterly academic... Continue reading
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Obama on al-Arabiya
January 28, 2009 04:30 PM
And the first formal interview of Obama’s presidency goes to… Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief for Saudi-owned, Dubai-based al-Arabiya television. With his Middle East envoy George Mitchell beginning a several-country tour of the region, Obama <a href=http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/01/27/65087.html#004... Continue reading
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Can I Borrow A Forward?
January 12, 2009 05:35 PM
On its website today, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel refers in a sidebar to a photogallery the paper's site posted back in April 2008, a collection of 50 of the Worst Album Covers Ever. This is a... Continue reading
Guide to Online News Startups

The Bold Italic
March 31, 2011 11:40 AM
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The Bold Italic is an experiment. Slickly designed but still in "beta," the Gannett-owned San Francisco website has an image-heavy... Continue reading
Guide to Online News Startups

CU-CitizenAccess
March 24, 2011 12:15 PM
URBANA, ILLINOIS — When Brant Houston moved to the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois area from Columbia, Missouri to assume the University of Illinois's Knight Chair in Journalism, he... Continue reading
Guide to Online News Startups

The St. Louis Beacon
December 29, 2010 02:01 PM
St. LOUIS, MISSOURI — Margaret Freivogel's thirty-four years as a reporter and editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch came to an end when she took a... Continue reading
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MRAP in Paper
December 10, 2008 04:08 PM
“One excellent way to show your concern for wounded veterans is not to make so many of them,” noted The New York Times in an editorial yesterday. The Times was praising the appointment of General Eric Shinseki to... Continue reading

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