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Newsweek’s Wal-Mart Amnesia
The newsweekly forgets about the discount giant’s dubious deeds
By Katia Bachko May 7, 2009 at 09:00 AM
An all-too-common complaint about Newsweek is that, even though it’s edited by a man who is indisputably The Ultimate Thinking... More
The Economy Today: The Summer Season
News from Spokane, Bangor, Gloucester and elsewhere
By Jane Kim May 6, 2009 at 09:55 AM
National news looks at the health of banks in anticipation of tomorrow’s stress test results: The New York Times says... More
Ben the Optimist
Papers focus on the sunny side of Fed chairman’s economic-growth statement
By Jane Kim May 6, 2009 at 09:29 AM
On the heels of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s remarks on the economy to the congressional Joint Economic Committee yesterday,... More
What I Wanna Know: Bevis Longstreth
A former SEC commissioner offers questions
By Bevis Longstreth May 5, 2009 at 02:58 PM
“What I Wanna Know” is a new series from CJR, in which we invite outside experts to propose questions about... More
A Summers Story
Stories about Larry Summers often neglect to mention his Wall Street interlude
By Kate Klonick May 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Exactly one month ago, the White House released financial documents on President Obama’s economic advisor, Larry Summers. They revealed, among... More
The Economy Today: Tough Times for Inventors
Economic news from Oregon, North Dakota, Kansas, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim May 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM
National headlines focused on Obama’s new international tax overhaul, which would raise $210 billion over the next decade by cracking... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part II
Does an individual mandate work? Depends on who’s talking
By Trudy Lieberman May 4, 2009 at 02:01 PM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Transparency Interview: Jameel Jaffer
The ACLU lawyer who helped uncover the detainee memos says there are more documents to come
By Clint Hendler May 4, 2009 at 01:37 PM
For over five years, a team of lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union has been waging a sprawling battle... More
Wishful Thinking
Times cheerleads White House’s hope for bank stress tests
By Katia Bachko May 4, 2009 at 12:20 PM
The results of the long-feared bank stress tests will be announced on Thursday, but that’s too long to wait for... More
The Economy Today: Local Agencies Suffer
Headlines from Montana, West Virginia, California, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko May 4, 2009 at 09:39 AM
In national news this morning, The New York Times predicts that the results of the bank stress tests, which are... More
Hating on the Hedgies
Going beyond Obama’s rhetoric on Chrysler’s lenders
By Katia Bachko May 1, 2009 at 04:20 PM
Announcing the historic bankruptcy plan for one of America’s largest automakers, President Obama had harsh words for the hedge funds... More
The Economy Today: Big Dreams, No Jobs
News from Virginia, Maryland, Nebraska, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko May 1, 2009 at 10:22 AM
The big national news is the continuing saga in the Chrysler bankruptcy. But around the country, federal funds play a... More
Grade-A Boring
Press yawns over Obama’s 100-day presser are childish
By Jane Kim Apr 30, 2009 at 04:24 PM
Last night, President Barack Obama held a press conference marking his first 100 days in office. After hyperventilating for weeks... More
Obama Speaks on State Secrets
And here’s what he might have meant
By Clint Hendler Apr 30, 2009 at 02:39 PM
Last night, at his hundredth-day news conference, President Barack Obama went on the record for the first time on his... More
Copter Trouble
NYT digs into costs of canceling prez’s expensive new helicopter fleet
By Jane Kim Apr 30, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Remember Obama’s helicopter problem? In late February, John McCain called him out over defense procurements, and specifically about a fleet... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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