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1. The Kicker

   McClelland in Port-au-Prince

   January 13, 2011 11:21 AM

   It's been one year, as of 4:53pm yesterday, since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti. I highly recommend Mac McClelland's vivid dispatches from Port-au-Prince this week for Mother Jones (and her tweets and longer work as well). From... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   On Haiti

   January 11, 2011 04:19 PM

   It was a year ago, tomorrow, that Haiti experienced a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the only American reporter in Haiti full time at the time of the earthquake, recalls the day of the quake... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   PAC Man

   January 10, 2011 12:56 PM

   How do potential presidential candidates circumvent donation-limiting federal campaign laws? Let us count the ways. There’s the federal PAC way. There’s also the state PAC way. USA Today recently reported on these work-arounds and their use by a number... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Seeing Double (the Errors)

   January 6, 2011 12:20 PM

   Explaining our complicated campaign finance system is, yes, complicated. How complicated? Ask the Malveaux twins. Suzanne Malveaux is a CNN reporter. Suzette Malveaux is a law professor. Anchorwoman Malveaux, hosting the December 31st episode of The Situation Room, invited... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Best of 2010: Liz Cox Barrett

   December 27, 2010 01:00 PM

   Target Corp.'s "Perfect Storm." Target was but one of several Minnesota-based companies to spend corporate money on election 2010, as permitted by the Supreme Court's January Citizens United decision. So why did Target's contribution alone spawn weeks of headlines... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   And The Winner Is

   December 22, 2010 12:56 PM

   An argument for including TV news chyrons in CJR's The Lower Case feature ("headlines that editors probably wish they could take back")? From Mediaite: Wow. We all make mistakes and typos. There will probably be at least one... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   More On Outside Interests Inside Sacramento

   December 21, 2010 03:17 PM

   The San Jose Mercury News's Karen de Sá has filed an update to her excellent series on "sponsored bills" in Sacramento—that is, bills backed by, crafted, and sometimes drafted by lobbyists. (Here's my hat tip to... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Pip Pip Cheerio, “Awful” Newspapers

   December 21, 2010 10:13 AM

   Kevin Connolly, who has covered the USA for the BBC for the past three years, has written a Farewell, America column, "Kevin Connolly's guide to American culture," before moving on to an assignment in the Middle East. Connolly's column... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   A Midsummer Donation Spike, With Context

   December 16, 2010 10:34 AM

   There is much that can not be found in publicly available federal campaign finance reports: the identities of all the entities and individuals whose funds fueled the surge in third party ad spending this year; or, a true... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    On Givhan

    December 15, 2010 05:08 PM

    For some fifteen years, Robin Givhan has served as fashion critic for the Washington Post which, Stephen Colbert once observed, is like being "dance critic for the Southern Baptist Convention." Yesterday, news broke that Givhan will move on,... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Comforting the Afflicted

    December 8, 2010 04:12 PM

    From a New York Times piece today about "high-end junk-food purveyors that have popped up around Capitol Hill recently:" Very little that occurs inside the Beltway is a genuine allegory for national passions, but the proliferation of food that... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Coalition to Protect Workplace Lollygaggers

    December 6, 2010 11:12 AM

    Need a Monday morning study break? Try out the Political Action Committee (PAC) Name Generator, created by the Sunlight Foundation (which helps fund CJR's reporting on transparency), in order to "have some fun," in Sunlight's words, with the explosion of... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    The Ongoing Burmese “Information Challenge”

    December 2, 2010 12:40 PM

    Over at PBS MediaShift, Simon Roughneen has a fascinating report on the ongoing difficulties of "getting the news out of Burma," the lengths to which the ruling junta goes to block the flow of information out of and within... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    So You Want to Talk to the Governor?

    December 1, 2010 10:03 AM

    It's February, maybe March, of 2010. You're a political reporter frantically seeking face or phone time with Governor David Paterson of New York. You get in line. And while you're waiting (pick me! pick me!), you ponder this: what would... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    From “Arab Newsrooms,” Day Two

    November 30, 2010 03:18 PM

    Yesterday, Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch and Meris Lutz at the LA Times’s Babylon & Beyond blog both took a look at how Arab news media have covered the Wikileaks story so far (somewhat selectively, they found). Neither Lynch nor... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Diplomatic Cable Writing “A Bit Like Journalism”

    November 30, 2010 01:18 PM

    Slate today has an Explainer addressing two basic questions raised by Cablegate: "What's a diplomatic cable? And why is the State Department still using them?" A cable, per Slate, is kind of like a group e-mail. For many years... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Ugly American(isms)

    November 29, 2010 05:10 PM

    At The Guardian's Mind Your Language blog, David Marsh defends against a common reader complaint that "too many 'Americanisms'" appear in the Guardian. Among the offending—"ugly" and "unnecessary" "American slang"— words, according to recent reader letters: dweebish, gotten, upscale,... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    “Tense Scenes in Arab Newsrooms Right Now”

    November 29, 2010 04:33 PM

    About those leaked cables that point to, as the New York Times puts it, “a largely silent front of Arab states whose positions on sanctions and a potential attack [on Iran] looked much like Israel’s”? (Cut off the head... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Assigned to Review Palin’s Book?

    November 24, 2010 11:20 AM

    At Slate, David Weigel reviews Sarah Palin's latest book, America By Heart, and, mid-review, offers this "how to" for others assigned to write about it: The smart thing to do with a Palin book, if you're a reviewer or... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    “Months of Juicy Speculation” Ahead, You Say?

    November 17, 2010 03:45 PM

    "Prince William and Kate Middleton sat down with advisers Wednesday to begin planning the royal wedding that some Britons have waited years to see - and the British media settled in for months of juicy speculation," reports the (not... Continue reading

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