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1. April 13, 2012 08:42 AM

   NYT Gives a (Very Reluctant) Kudos to Al Jazeera

   By Ron Howell

   And the award for coverage of the Haitian cholera epidemic goes to . . . No, not The New York Times, nor The Washington Post, nor even the Miami Herald. No it goes to Al Jazeera, the news organization that found the cause of the epidemic and told the world about it.* Al Jazeera, the Arab world’s version of our...

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2. June 13, 2011 03:46 PM

   A Broken Lede

   The government isn’t “broke.” Reporters should stop saying it is.

   By Greg Marx

   The Associated Press has an important story today about the fairly horrifying condition of many state budgets. On its site, Politico has a rewrite of the AP story. That’s a good thing: the fiscal retrenchment that’s going to result from steep state deficits seems likely to be a big, bad deal for the economy over the next couple years, and...

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3. 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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4. November 11, 2011 12:18 PM

   A Laurel to the AP

   For its eye-opening story on Social Security

   By Trudy Lieberman

   The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the kind of explainer we have urged the press to write. The piece, written by Stephen Ohlemacher, lays out exactly what will happen to people—and not just seniors already on Social Security, but others who will be affected by a new...

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5. February 11, 2011 02:07 PM

   Amazon Bolts Texas’s “Unfavorable Regulatory Environment”

   But there's more to the story than we get from the AP and The Dallas Morning News

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Associated Press report that Amazon is closing its Texas warehouse due to—and this is a direct Amazon quote—the state's "unfavorable regulatory environment." That farcical statement, made by an exec in an email to employees leaked to the AP, shows how roguish the $85 billion corporation Amazon is when it comes to collecting sales taxes. The company—like other Internet and...

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6. April 26, 2011 12:01 PM

   AP and Guild Reach Tentative Deal

   Wait to see if workers agree on 401(k)-style pension plan

   By Joel Meares

   A little slow getting to this, but as of Friday the Associated Press and the News Media Guild, which represents over 1200 AP workers, have come to a tentative contract agreement. You will recall two weeks ago that CJR paid a visit to an AP workers’ rally outside the newswire’s Manhattan offices. Protracted negotiations between the Guild and the AP...

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7. October 25, 2011 01:18 PM

   AP Gives Half a Loaf on Long-Term Care

   More reporting needed from the wire service

   By Trudy Lieberman

   When the CLASS Act, a part of the health reform law that would have begun to establish a national program to pay for long-term care, died two weeks ago, we urged that the media use its demise as a way to broaden the discourse on the topic. “There was scarcely a nod to the problem the act had been meant...

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8. 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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9. May 31, 2011 11:45 PM

   Audit Notes: WSJ Calls Out AT&T; Goldman and Qaddafi; Banks Hit the Road

   By Ryan Chittum

   I wish more papers would do what The Wall Street Journal does today in its story about antitrust concerns over AT&T's bid to gobble up T-Mobile and create a duopoly in cellphone service. Here's AT&T's top lobbyist, Jim Cicconi (emphasis mine): "Opposition is not growing," Mr. Cicconi said. "If anything, it seems fairly confined to the usual people and the...

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10. April 15, 2011 04:21 PM

    Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies

    By Ryan Chittum

    This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware River in 2004—the third-biggest oil spill in U.S. history. The judge cleared Citgo of liability in the third-largest oil spill in U.S. waters, which occurred when the single-hull Greek tanker struck a rusty anchor long submerged in the riverbed. Nearly...

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11. March 22, 2012 04:16 PM

    Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act

    The two faces of health reform

    By Trudy Lieberman

    The health reform law celebrates its two-year anniversary tomorrow. There are myriad ways to report on the Affordable Care Act and its sure-to-be-tumultuous future. Two stories showed up this week that illustrate two sides of health reform. The AP, which reaches zillions of ordinary people, reported—not surprisingly—on how the law has helped ordinary people. Politico, which reaches the Beltway types,...

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12. March 23, 2011 10:36 AM

    Detecting Fake Photos with Digital Forensics

    A Q&A with Hany Farid on photo forensics

    By Lauren Kirchner

    As photography has gone digital, it has become ever easier to manipulate images with Photoshop and other technology. Digital photographs used in the news industry are often adjusted for reasons of aesthetics—a contrast adjustment here, a color-alteration there. But they can also be altered with the aim to deceive editors or readers. Luckily, digital detection technology is quickly advancing, as...

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13. January 21, 2011 08:54 PM

    Don’t Forget Massey Energy’s Long History of Violations

    By Ryan Chittum

    Federal investigators' preliminary report is out on the April coal mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners. Was it something of a natural disaster—a fluke or bad luck—or was it a man-made one that could and should have been prevented? The Wall Street Journal gets off to a weak start with this lede: A series of safety and equipment...

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14. March 25, 2011 12:49 PM

    Governor’s Inbox Puts Deputy Prosecutor Out (Updated)

    Walker’s e-mails give Wisconsin watchdog a story

    By Joel Meares

    A young Indiana deputy prosecutor has resigned after an interesting journalistic project sprung from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s release of e-mails to a Wisconsin weekly and the AP. You’ll remember Tuesday’s AP story in which the organization parsed more than 26,000 e-mails sent to the governor’s office in February. The AP created a database of the e-mails sent from the...

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15. September 7, 2012 06:50 AM

    LGBT coverage worth a shout-out

    The mainstream media much improved its coverage in recent years

    By Jennifer Vanasco

    In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Every week in Minority Reports, I’ve pointed out coverage of social minorities that was done badly or could have been done better. But the fact is, a lot of coverage is very, very good. And I thought that deserved a mention. Nowhere is this more...

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16. February 4, 2011 10:42 AM

    Nice Work at the AP

    The administration stretches a health reform stat

    By Trudy Lieberman

    It’s no secret the president and his surrogates are trying mightily to keep their sales job for health reform on track—even if that means handing out misleading data. Campaign Desk was pleased to see the AP’s Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar pick up on a point we had made a few days earlier. In a critique of a NewsHour story that left a...

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17. January 11, 2011 04:19 PM

    On Haiti

    By Liz Cox Barrett

    It was a year ago, tomorrow, that Haiti experienced a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the only American reporter in Haiti full time at the time of the earthquake, recalls the day of the quake and reports on the days since. Writes Katz: In the year since, crisis has piled upon crisis. More than 230,000 are...

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18. December 1, 2010 10:13 AM

    One Night at the AP

    Conflicting e-mails from capitol editor offer window into a newsroom conflict

    By Clint Hendler

    It was one of the weirdest weeks Albany has ever experienced—and for New York’s scandal ridden, incestuous capital, that’s saying something. It was early February 2010, and a New York Times investigative team was focusing on Governor David Paterson—just what the resulting story would say no one knew, not even the reporters at work on it. But in a city...

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19. September 16, 2011 12:53 AM

    Ron Suskind on Obama’s Weakness

    A new book reports Geithner ignored the president on overhauling Citigroup

    By Ryan Chittum

    It's been apparent for a good while that Obama is a weak president. But so weak that his own people ignore what he tells them to do? That's a whole other thing. The Associated Press got hold of Ron Suskind's new book on the administration and writes this lede: A new book offering an insider's account of the White House's...

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20. January 9, 2012 12:29 PM

    Santorum Goes After Social Security

    The AP covers Rick's empty rhetoric

    By Trudy Lieberman

    Noting the media’s trivial pursuit of rising star Rick Santorum, my colleague Erika Fry has called for more substantive reporting on the candidate’s past and policy visions. I say “amen,” and applaud the fact the AP at least devoted a somewhat lengthy story to his call for immediate cuts to Social Security benefits. “We can’t wait 10 years,” Santorum told...

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