Desks

The Audit Business

• New Financial Sheriff in Town, Part III Times highlights SEC’s latest crackdown—on an Estonian brokerage
• Audit Notes: Bloomberg Backs the Buck; WSJ on Future State Taxes; Big Money vs. Student Loansharks; Mortgage Banker Schadenfreude, etc.

The Observatory Science

• “Waves in a Shallow Pan” Has climate coverage in the MSM lost its authority?
• Dumb Blonde Story Sunday Times botches the science in piece on the “princess effect”

Campaign Desk Politics & Policy

• Unforced Error at Salon “O’Keefe’s race problem” story goes astray on key detail
• Is Health Reform Dead or Alive? Wanted: a newsmaker to give us the word

Behind the News The Media

• Behind the Veil: Covering Iraq’s Women in Hiding CJR presents an ongoing video series about the work of investigative reporters
• Hearts, Minds, and the Satellite Dish America’s televised message in the Arab world is dull and poorly managed