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May 22, 2012 06:50 AM
Exit Interview
C-SPAN’s maestro exits the stage
In 1979, Brian Lamb, then the head of Cablevision’s DC bureau, achieved what now seems unimaginable: He convinced Congress and cable executives to back his plan to create a nonprofit that would broadcast the proceedings of the House of Representatives, gavel to gavel. It was called C-SPAN, or the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, and 34...
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February 29, 2012 03:45 PM
Exit Interview
Whither the wizard of HuffPo?
Paul Berry became the chief technology officer of the Huffington Post in 2007. He developed technical strategies that exploited the social, real-time Web as no other journalism business ever had, enabling huge growth. To this day, even those not in love with HuffPo’s editorial product swoon over its technical capabilities. Now Berry is leaving to start a...
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December 19, 2011 05:19 PM
Q&A: New York Times Iraq reporter Michael S. Schmidt
On finding classified documents in the trash, and transitioning from the sports beat
Several weeks ago, New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt, a foreign correspondent in the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau, went looking for US military trailers in a local junkyard. Schmidt was trying to find a new way to tell the story of American withdrawal from Iraq—and he found one when he stumbled upon a binder of classified military documents...
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February 23, 2011 04:29 PM
Mark Cuban’s Business Model
A media maverick on the news industry
Mark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who looks like a big kid and sometimes acts like one. His outbursts can obscure his most notable attribute—he is an astute businessman.
Cuban made his fortune building and selling two businesses—the first a computer-services company and the second...
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January 9, 2009 09:00 AM
Object Lessons
Holland Cotter on truth, beauty, and critical Zen
The art critic Holland Cotter joined the staff of The New York Times in 1998, after six years of freelancing for the paper. Over the last decade, he has focused often on Asian art—and the recent swell of interest in this area has given his work a new centrality. Cotter’s following, however, stems from the sheer quality of his style,...
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The Audit Business
- Sorkin’s Glass-Steagall straw man Of course its repeal contributed, directly and indirectly, to the financial crisis
- Audit notes: Buffett on newspapers, Times-Picayune, SEC lets Lehman go A vow to invest in newspapers and protect them from interference
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
- Herald’s Caputo dives deep on diverging polls Do other news organizations undermine their credibility when they don’t do the same?
- Many stations don’t factcheck super PAC ads: survey Conference highlights difference in attitudes between industry, watchdog groups
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