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1. May 11, 2011 03:54 PM

   A 60 Percent Osama Bump?

   New approval rating raises a flap

   By Joel Meares

   An interesting debate about polling samples is underway this afternoon in the wake of a very encouraging new set of figures for President Obama. The figures come from a new and widely cited AP-GfK poll released today that shows the president’s approval rating hitting its highest point in two years (on the AP-GfK poll): 60 percent. That’s a significantly bigger...

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2. September 28, 2011 01:40 AM

   A Frustrating AP Series on Nuclear Safety

   The industry's blunder-buss response doesn't help; public left confused

   By Irene M. Wielawski

   Editor's note: This is an installment of our Audit Arbiter series, which looks into complaints about business news stories. If there's something we should take a look at, write dean@deanstarkman.com. The Associated Press didn’t pick a soft target when it decided to examine potential safety risks associated with the aging of America's nuclear power plants. Because of longstanding public...

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3. April 13, 2011 08:09 AM

   AP Staffers Picket Bureaus Across The Country (UPDATED)

   Frustrations on the rise over pension impasse

   By Joel Meares

   AP staffers in thirty-nine bureaus across the country picketed outside their bureau offices early this week, pressuring the news wire to back off a plan to freeze pensions for some 1,250 workers. The freeze is the final sticking point in protracted contract negotiations that began in October between the AP’s HR representatives and lawyers and representatives from the News Media...

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4. July 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   Covering the ‘ex-gay’ movement

   An influential organization changed its stance on reparative therapy. What will this mean for media coverage?

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her new column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Recently Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, an umbrella group ministering to Christians who want to suppress their gay feelings, made a startling announcement: There is no cure for homosexuality. Reparative therapy doesn’t work. This may not seem earth shattering. After all, most people...

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5. July 2, 2012 05:22 PM

   Don’t assume AP intern’s cause of death

   Armando Montaño died in Mexico, a country notoriously dangerous to journalists. But we don't know yet if his death was work-related

   By Sara Morrison

   The death of Armando Montaño, a 22-year-old Associated Press intern in Mexico City, is a tragic loss to the world of journalism that the recent Grinnell College graduate just recently began to navigate. What is not yet known, however, is if Montaño’s death was related to his profession. A Colorado Springs, CO native, Montaño arrived in Mexico last month to...

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6. November 23, 2010 10:47 AM

   Enterprise Reporting at the AP

   The retirement age debate finally reaches the public

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Kudos to the AP for obtaining a report from the government’s watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO), showing that raising the retirement age for full Social Security benefits would disproportionately hurt workers with low incomes. That would mean, said the GAO, higher claims for Social Security disability benefits because some older workers could not work any more. We were...

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7. March 21, 2011 01:28 PM

   In Style

   AP makes more changes

   By Merrill Perlman

   Last Monday, you could have written an “e-mail” to your friend in “Calcutta,” checked for a response on your “smart phone” or “hand-held,” then answered a call from her on your “cell phone.” But by the end of the week, you would have had to write an “email” to your friend in “Kolkata,” checked for a response on your “smartphone”...

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8. September 4, 2012 12:27 AM

   Instagram on the trail

   More media are experimenting with use of the app as a news tool

   By Hazel Sheffield

   When AP staff photographer Evan Vucci downloaded Instagram, a photo-sharing app, on his iPhone before the Iowa caucus in January, he used it to keep in touch with friends and family while on the road. Now, the AP has requested that Vucci and 12 other staff photographers use their personal Instagram feeds professionally, with the hashtag #aponthetrail, to capture behind-the-scenes...

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9. February 10, 2011 05:24 PM

   Meet the Iowa Press

   Local reporters in demand at caucus time

   By Joel Meares

   A New York political reporter once asked me during an interview: “Who’s that guy who gets his ring kissed by everybody every four years because he’s it for Iowa?” She was explaining her decision not to move to Washington—the draw of becoming “that guy” to whom everyone in the country turns for local analysis, when needed—but couldn’t quite remember...

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