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1. August 11, 2011 03:08 PM

   Building Haiti’s Post-Quake Media

   Postcard from Port au Prince

   By William Wheeler

   While I was reporting in Haiti last year, over the course of a few months, the Port-au-Prince guesthouse where I often stayed—once the dominion of grassroots activists disdainful of reporters—was gradually overrun by journalists. The Internet slowed, beer sales climbed, and a long wooden table on the terrace piled up with laptops and cameras, audio gear and hard drives. When...

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2. April 18, 2012 11:55 AM

   How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate

   The press plays a dubious role

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, Washington Post budget correspondent Lori Montgomery reported that, while a debate raged around major budgetary changes and the wisdom of cutting Social Security, a “surprisingly broad consensus is forming around the actions required to stabilize borrowing and ease fears of a European-style debt crisis in the United States.” A consensus among whom, we...

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3. February 27, 2012 12:07 PM

   Media Rare

   Revisiting singular versus plural

   By Merrill Perlman

   Last week, a post at the Poynter Institute took a strong stand: “It’s time for copy editors to loosen the cardigan when it comes to ‘media,’” Andrew Beaujon wrote. He said he felt “like a tool writing ‘The media are.’” No reason to feel like a tool. “Media” as a mass noun, taking a singular the way “furniture” does, has...

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4. September 13, 2011 03:40 PM

   Starving for Coverage

   Unlike the 1980s, journalists pay little attention to famine ravaging the Horn of Africa

   By James Fahn

   What a difference a generation makes. Back in 1984-85, groundbreaking media coverage of the terrible drought and famine that affected around eight million people in Ethiopia spurred an outpouring of Western relief efforts. A harrowing report by BBC broadcaster Michael Buerk is often cited as the spark that led to Band Aid, a supergroup of British and Irish musicians who...

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5. May 18, 2012 01:26 PM

   What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers

   Despite it all, small papers can still turn a profit

   By Justin Peters

   On Thursday, Warren Buffett announced he will spend $142 million to purchase 63 local and regional newspapers from the Richmond, Virginia-based Media General chain--and the Berkshire Hathaway chairman says he's ready to buy more. "Any time we can add properties we like, to management we like, at a price we like, we're ready to go,” Buffett told the Omaha World-Herald,...

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6. May 8, 2012 10:36 AM

   Who you calling ‘working-class’?

   Some things for the political press to think about as it covers Campaign 2012

   By Brent Cunningham

   Attention all political reporters and editors. If you don’t know about the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State, in Ohio, I urge you to bookmark its blog (Working-Class Perspectives) and check it frequently as the primary campaign unfolds. Below is a sampling of the latest, directed squarely at you, from John Russo, who runs the center. Read the full...

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