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   Extreme Makeover: NewsHour Edition

   May 12, 2009 10:39 AM

   A team in need of a "livelier look?" Well, Bus driver: Move! That! Bus! because PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer is being made over "to bring it more fully into the digital era, give... Continue reading

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   Kidding?

   May 11, 2009 02:58 PM

   Heard in the halls of CJR: "This has to be self-parody, right?" This Washington Post piece (ok, "essay," by Sally Quinn) that begins as so: "May I change the subject," said a prominent Washington theologian at a recent dinner.... Continue reading

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   Where Was MSNBC’s Countdown Clock?

   May 11, 2009 02:02 PM

   I thought I could count on MSNBC's on-screen count-down clock. Nine hours, thirty-six minutes and eleven seconds until The Unveiling of Bo the Dog. That sort of thing. And yet, today comes an event for which a countdown clock... Continue reading

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   NYT “Has Rejected Raising Endowment…”

   May 11, 2009 12:59 PM

   ...still looking at underwriting content," according to one of many live-tweets from Jennifer 8. Lee from a New York Times staff meeting on online business strategy. Continue reading

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   NYT Talks Like Montgomery Burns

   May 11, 2009 12:19 PM

   The New York Times "is a citadel of retrotalk," according to the author of I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech, Ralph Keyes. And Maureen... Continue reading

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   Before (And After) The Main Event

   May 11, 2009 11:10 AM

   As Megan noted Friday, you can get plenty of Prom News here (headlines like: "Ludacris Looking Forward to His 2nd WHCD, Hopes Wanda Doesn’t 'Hold Back'”). And while you could learn, there, that Secretary Napolitano said at... Continue reading

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   Dan Baum Twitters About His Ex, The New Yorker

   May 11, 2009 10:38 AM

   Dan Baum, a staff writer for The New Yorker until he was fired in 2007, is now on a book tour, where people always ask him why he doesn't write for The New Yorker anymore. So Baum is telling... Continue reading

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   Dowd’s Other Idea For Saving Newspapers

   May 11, 2009 09:44 AM

   Maureen Dowd's Solutions For Newspapers range from "why can't Google... just write us a big check for our stories" ( April 14) to why can't "Barack Spock" -- she just saw the new Star Trek--rescue "read matter for the... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Roxana Saberi to be Released

   May 11, 2009 09:35 AM

   Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist charged with spying for Washington and sentenced in Iran to an eight-year jail term, will http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/world/middleeast/12iran.html?_r=1&hp">reportedly be released today from Evin prison after an appeal court reduced her sentence. Continue reading

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    Bingo! Zuckerman’s Solution For Newspapers

    May 7, 2009 10:12 AM

    Granted, New York Magazine got this quote from Mort Zuckerman at Time magazine's Time 100 gala but here we have it, Zuckerman's suggestion for saving newspapers: Just make bingo legal on our websites...The newspapers in England are supported almost... Continue reading

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    Milbank: “They Came as if To Their Own Funeral”

    May 7, 2009 09:32 AM

    ...writes the Washington Post's Dana Milbank of fellow reporters who came to observe yesterday's Senate hearing on "The Future of Journalism" (see our live blog of the event). Milbank, quoting assorted newspaper-sympathetic senators (Kerry, Cardin, McCaskill), offered this:... Continue reading

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    Live Blogging “Future of Journalism” Hearing

    May 6, 2009 03:22 PM

    CJR staffers will be live blogging The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation's "Future of Journalism" hearing in the comments section of this post. Starting here around 2:30pm whenever it starts. All are welcome to participate. Continue reading

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    Testify

    May 6, 2009 01:01 PM

    This afternoon, The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation's Subcomittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet holds its hearing on The Future of Journalism. Invited panelists include David Simon, Steve Coll, Arianna Huffington, Google VP Marissa Mayer. Jay... Continue reading

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    Hey, New Yorker: “Stop Chasing Skirts and Ambulances”…

    May 6, 2009 11:24 AM

    ...and other loving criticisms (and extolments) of favorite print publications from readers of The Morning News. Continue reading

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    MoDo on the “Shiny Slot Machine of Their Mutual Ambition”

    May 6, 2009 10:37 AM

    Maureen Dowd seems to have a "thing" about ambition-- in others. Today she writes caustically of the "shiny slot machine of [a politician and spouse's] mutual ambition." And, shocker, she's actually not referring to the Clintons. She's talking about... Continue reading

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    “Can [WaPo Ombud] Man Up And Step Into [Deborah Howell’s] Shoes?”

    May 5, 2009 04:30 PM

    ...asks a Post reader (and apparent Deborah Howell Fan) of Andy Alexander, Howell's successor as the Post's ombudsman, during an online Q&A. Continue reading

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    Where’s The Beef?

    May 5, 2009 03:14 PM

    President Obama offered to buy burgers today for the journalists covering his spontaneous lunch trip with Vice President Biden to Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va., assigning, according to this account, Caren Bohan of Reuters "order-taking duty." Pool reporter... Continue reading

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    “Act Like Those Underdog Newspapers of Years Ago…”

    May 5, 2009 01:48 PM

    ...says Martin Kaiser, editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and newly-named president of the American Society of News Editors, in a rally-the-troops video in which he vows to "fight for the future of journalism" and urges editors to, among... Continue reading

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    Meacham’s Quarterly Weekly?

    May 5, 2009 01:01 PM

    Don't these things usually go inside? Behold, the wrap-around, faux-front cover* of the current Newsweek (the new Newsweek, for "thinking persons"?) mailed to subscribers: In an article inside about "Reinventing Newsweek," readers are told... Continue reading

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    Today In White House Press Corps “News”

    May 5, 2009 10:45 AM

    Who's bringing whom, so far, to the White House Correspondents Dinner? According to FishbowlDC's count: the Emanuel brothers are divided between two broadcast networks (Rahm with ABC, Ari and Dr. Zeke with NBC); Fox News will bring Sarah and... Continue reading

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