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1. November 15, 2012 11:50 AM

   Decision 2012: Who mapped it best?

   From Daily Beast's red/blue simplicity to WNYC's intricate oranges, greens, and purples

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. As CJR's Meta Newsroom showed, a glut of media outlets incorporated digital innovation into their reporting during the recent election....

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2. November 7, 2012 03:16 PM

   Digital innovation on election night: a report

   From CJR and Tow Center’s “meta newsroom”

   By Mike Hoyt

   About as digital as most Americans get on election night is to operate the channel clicker. But that is steadily becoming less true. The explanatory and informational firepower of emerging online media tools are too alluring to avoid forever. Each election cycle they become more sophisticated yet easier to work, and they draw more readers and viewers. The people who...

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3. February 10, 2012 10:35 AM

   Mitt Romney’s Soul: The Search is On

   But not much luck so far

   By Erika Fry

   Mitt Romney is: A phony An Eagle Scout The Dad who’s never home The man you want to marry but not the kind of man who sends a thrill up your leg Mr Collins (a marriage of convenience) A house, with a solid basement, but not a dream kitchen A white shadow A windsock A shell, a wall, a mask...

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4. May 9, 2012 03:10 PM

   OffTheBus takes a ‘breather’

   New technologies and partnerships in the works

   By Alysia Santo

   OffTheBus, The Huffington Post’s citizen journalism program for campaign coverage, hasn’t posted new content in almost a month. But the company says, though it may look like the wheels have popped off the bus, it’s just taking a pit stop. “It’s giving that brief breather before the rush begins,” says HuffPost Media Group’s chief of staff, Jimmy Soni. The lull...

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5. March 21, 2012 12:05 PM

   Romney, BuzzFeed, and that “Hidden” Op-Ed

   Is the press ceding policy-shift reporting to oppo artists?

   By Erika Fry

   It was four o’clock on a Friday afternoon when BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, a 22-year old student at St. John’s College, made a serendipitous discovery. Kaczynski, who has already generated a lot of buzz this election season for his talent at mining the Internet for embarrassing material on political candidates, was browsing the web archives of old Mitt Romney sites (Free...

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6. June 26, 2012 10:56 AM

   Stories I’d like to see

   The tax man who could change the 2012 campaign

   By Steven Brill

   In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. The IRS bureaucrat who could upend the campaign finance money flow: Here’s an idea for a story about an obscure government bureaucrat whose decisions could have a...

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7. October 16, 2012 03:38 PM

   Stories I’d like to see

   Electoral legal minefields, baseball contracts, and airline woes

   By Steven Brill

   In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. The Election Day legal battlefield: We need all kinds of coverage of the legal Armageddon that we may face on Election Day and the morning after. Assuming...

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8. March 6, 2012 01:48 PM

   When JFK made Santorum sick

   The press was too slow to supply the larger context

   By Erika Fry

   It has been more than a week since Rick Santorum went on the Sunday talk circuit and made news by saying that John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech about his religion made him want to “throw up.” But the comment still reverberates on the campaign trail, including places like Ohio, where he and Mitt Romney have battled for the blue-collar...

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