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Behind the News
Nora Ephron, on Zebras … Lions … Coyotes … and Vultures
August 9, 2006 03:28 PMNora Ephron, in an interview with New York magazine, commenting on mainstream journalism versus the blogosphere: " ... I think everyone feels a little bit beleaguered by the blogosphere, because it's fundamentally such a parasitic thing. The New... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Bill Keller and Dean Baquet Define the Stakes
July 3, 2006 08:30 AMIf you're like us, often as not you skip reading newspapers on long holiday weekends. But this weekend, that would have been a mistake. Saturday's New York Times and Los Angeles Times featured an extraordinary op-ed piece,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Another Class Act by the White House Press Corps
June 20, 2006 01:55 PMBelow is an unedited excerpt of today's White House press briefing by Tony Snow (as created by the Huffington Post's Robert Dreyfuss): Q. There's a controversy this week over Congressman John Murtha's comments about Karl Rove. What... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Sign of the Time (Inc.)
June 13, 2006 02:31 PMFrom a Richard Cohen column in this morning's Washington Post: "... and Time Inc., which reportedly paid about $4 million for pictures of Brangelina's baby, recently let go two of the best investigative reporters in the business,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Iraq: For Journalists, the Deadliest War
May 30, 2006 12:57 PMThe New York Times brings us a somber reminder this morning that with the deaths yesterday of two journalists working for CBS the Iraq war has become the deadliest conflict for reporters in modern times. Since the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Once There Were Giants
May 18, 2006 11:48 AMIn a doleful shirt-tail, or footnote, to the New York Times story this morning on the appointment of a new managing editor at Time magazine, we learn this: "Donald Barlett and James Steele, two investigative reporters who... Continue reading
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Politics
The Utility and the Futility of White House Press Briefings
April 24, 2006 11:23 AMThe forced departure of the beleaguered Scott McClellan as presidential press secretary and press corps piñata has inspired at least one White House reporter to ponder the futility of the daily briefings that made McClellan both famous and infamous. <br... Continue reading
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Behind the News
An Ominous Development Looms - on Page A22
March 16, 2006 03:40 PMIn an unwelcome development, the New York Times today tells us that lawyers for Lewis Libby, the former aide to Dick Cheney who faces obstruction of justice charges, have served subpoenas on the Times and on Judy Miller, its... Continue reading
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Behind the News
A Meditation on Disconnects and Dinosaurs
March 13, 2006 02:42 PMThe sale of Knight Ridder Newspapers to McClatchy Co. -- and McClatchy's determination to unload at least 12 of those 32 papers as quickly as possible -- Is an appropriate time to ponder the dog-eats-own-tail school of management that has... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Mating Dance of the Blogerati
March 10, 2006 10:43 AM"Boldface," Campbell Robertson's gossip column in the New York Times, brings us news this morning of a party at the home of Jim Kelly, managing editor of Time, celebrating the launch of Andrew Sullivan's blog, "The Daily Dish," on Time.com.... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Newsweek Launches Savage Attack on … Newsweek!
March 6, 2006 12:25 PMToday Newsweek brings us yet another cover story on health -- in particular on the widespread public confusion that ensued in the wake of the Women's Health Initiative study earlier this year. And senior editor Barbara Kantrowitz and senior... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Super Bowl Nausea
February 9, 2006 10:24 AMIt's early in the year, and we are sure that many other candidates will come to our attention -- they always do -- but, thanks to an alert reader, we think we've found a finalist for the Best Correction of... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Cloaks and Daggers at the New York Times
February 2, 2006 01:47 PMThanks to a tipster with a sharp eye, we sought out a small story tucked away on page A18 of this morning's New York Times -- and we're glad we did, because said story strikes us as passing strange. <br... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Down the Rabbit Hole
January 9, 2006 03:17 PMThe continuing fuss over press failures in reporting the West Virginia mining tragedy has produced some unlikely conclusions from some unlikely quarters. CJR Daily has weighed in twice itself and our conclusions haven't changed much, if... Continue reading
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The Audit
New York Times Discovers Another Trend - Far, Far Away, and Seven Years Too Late
December 30, 2005 08:30 AMThursday, the New York Times, with a page one national story inexplicably datelined "Portland, Me.," told us that "families in a vast majority of the country can still buy a house for a smaller share of their income than... Continue reading
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Behind the News
In Dowd World, Only the Babes Shall Prevail
December 10, 2005 04:08 PMNew York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd, described by more than one admirer as a babe herself, has been thinking a lot lately about gender and age -- she has written a whole book about just that... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Pitfalls and Perils of Dancing to Wall Street’s Tune
December 5, 2005 12:51 PMIt's been a dreary exercise lately, reading Jim Romenesko's collection of media industry news on Poynter.org. Some days, it has become little more than a parade of memos from copycat newspaper publishers who, faced for the first time in their... Continue reading
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The Audit
A Prophet of Doom Cherry-Picks the Numbers
November 28, 2005 04:43 PMGretchen Morgenson, a New York Times Wall Street reporter with a Pulitzer under her belt, is one of the shrewder financial minds in the business press, so it's always surprising to see her stumble. But stumble she did... Continue reading
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The Audit
Introducing The Audit
November 18, 2005 08:00 AMYou have just logged on to the latest iteration of CJR Daily, a real-time critique of daily journalism, which operates under the auspices of the Columbia Journalism Review, the country's premier press monitor. Regular readers will note that... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Adios, Judy
November 10, 2005 12:46 PMSo Judy Miller is gone, and if there's a goodbye party replete with affectionate toasts and going-away gifts, it won't be at the New York Times.Miller -- a reporter who gave new definition to the phrase "gone native"... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Reuters’s OKC gusher Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
- Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
The Observatory Science
- Environment coverage TBD The Times says it’s committed, but only time will tell
- Call in the math club Science reporters can help ward off a “Big Data bubble”
United States Project Politics & Policy
- The Frank Luntz script for Congressional Republicans A guide to phrases journos should look for (and scrutinize)
- Hey readers: They’re bluffing! (maybe) The need to put political bargaining positions in context
Behind the News The Media
- German bill would charge for aggregation The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
- Gun permit data wasn’t maximized The choice that faced the Journal News was not simply whether to map gun permit holders’ addresses, but how
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