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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged The Kicker

1. January 26, 2011 11:47 AM

   Andrea Mitchell Crosses the Line

   By Trudy Lieberman

   NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was bummed out yesterday on her show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, when Melody Barnes, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, announced the five-year discretionary spending freeze. Apparently Barnes’s words did not sit well with Mitchell, who thought the administration should be tougher on the contributions entitlements make to the deficit. Said Mitchell: I think you’ve just...

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2. February 17, 2011 11:42 AM

   Lara Logan, Foreign Correspondents, and Sexual Abuse

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   On Tuesday came the chilling news from CBS News that chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, while reporting a 60 Minutes segment in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 11th, “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” and is now in the United States recovering. The news has since inspired some smart, stirring writing and thinking (see, for starters, Mac...

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3. November 17, 2010 11:11 AM

   Support Injured Photographer João Silva

   By Joel Meares

   Last month, New York Times-contracted photographer João Silva stepped on a landmine near the southern Afghan town of Arghandab. Silva has spent three weeks in intensive care—he is currently being treated at Walter Reed—and has lost both of his legs below the knee. In an interview with CJR just after the incident, fellow photographer Moises Saman said, “João is a...

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