Desks

The Audit Business

• Audit notes: No more daily in New Orleans, McClatchy, private equity The NYT reports the Times-Picayune will print two or three times a week
• Facebook fiasco The well connected made out while retail investors got hosed

The Observatory Science

• Reparative journalism Reporter sinks a controversial paper on “ex-gay” therapy
• The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast

Campaign Desk Politics & Policy

• Outrage angle covered—now how about those gas price claims? Here’s how the Denver Post and other battleground outlets can do better on the energy debate
• What’s the swingiest state of them all? By any measure, Colorado is at the center of the action in 2012

Behind the News The Media

• When big data is bad data The press and standardized testing numbers: a cautionary tale
• The Ford Foundation’s unprecedented grant to The Los Angeles Times And what for-profit/ nonprofit partnerships mean in the age of Sam Zell