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1. April 8, 2011 11:02 AM

   The Importance of Energy Reporters

   A Q&A with the NYT’s Matthew Wald about Japan’s nuclear crisis

   By Cristine Russell

   The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters. Unfortunately, there weren’t many American journalists on the beat when disaster struck on March 11. The New York Times's veteran energy and environment reporter Matthew L. Wald was one of the few, and it has shown in the paper's outstanding coverage...

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2. April 1, 2011 09:04 AM

   “The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”

   Four NYT journalists captured in Libya speak at Columbia

   By Lauren Kirchner

   On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell, and Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid, all of The New York Times, to talk to students about their ordeal in Libya. The four had been captured by Col. Qaddafi’s forces at a checkpoint after covering the...

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3. January 4, 2011 12:10 PM

   “There is no ‘The Tea Party’”

   East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement

   By Joel Meares

   Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los Angeles Times stories this weekend. The themes of both pieces are near identical: the Tea Party is displeased with what it views as GOP capitulation in the lame duck session that ended 2010, and, as such, will be keeping its...

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4. October 22, 2012 06:20 PM

   ‘Hi, Mark!’

   The Newspaper Guild welcomes The New York Times's new CEO

   By Sara Morrison

   Mark Thompson began work today as the new CEO of The New York Times, and the Newspaper Guild was there to greet him: The guild has been in negotiations with NYT management since the union contract expired over 18 months ago, and relations between the sides have only become more acrimonious. Last February, guild members lined the hallways outside the...

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5. March 17, 2011 11:50 AM

   NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28

   By Lauren Kirchner

   After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the details of its website paywall, which will be erected for US readers on Monday, March 28 (for Canadian readers, it goes into effect immediately). The magic number? $15. From Jeremy Peters: Beginning March 28, visitors to NYTimes.com will be able...

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6. May 16, 2011 02:37 PM

   NYT On Why Journalists Like to Compare Presidents

   Did anybody think to ask journalists?

   By Joel Meares

   The New York Times’s Peter Baker had a piece in Sunday’s paper dealing with an issue close to many hearts at the CJR office—that reliable pundit go-to, the presidential comparison. You know the kind of thing: columns and covers suggesting Clinton’s having a Carter moment or that Obama’s walking in Reagan’s footsteps, about to take a Bush-senior-stumble, only to rise—Clinton-style—with...

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7. January 26, 2011 01:54 PM

   NYT Photographer Moises Saman Injured in Tunisia

   By Joel Meares

   The New York Times's Lens blog reports that photographer Moises Saman was "mildly injured" on Tuesday in Tunisia when six police officers assaulted him. Mr. Saman was attempting to photograph a group of police officers beating a man in an alley off the main Avenue Bourguiba. The police noticed Mr. Saman’s camera and attacked him without explanation. Lens also reports...

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8. March 31, 2011 12:34 PM

   Times Has Giffords’ Impact on Arizona Senate Race

   But we have to keep some perspective here

   By Joel Meares

   In some ways it feels morbid to urge caution for those envisioning a swift fairytale return to politics for Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. It’s a sensitive area, and you don’t want to be too much of a downer. But reading Marc Lacey’s very well-reported piece on A1 of the Times this morning, “An Arizona Senate Race Waits to See...

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9. October 25, 2010 10:42 AM

   Times’s Act Two Profile of Assange

   A revealing follow-up to The New Yorker

   By Joel Meares

   Raffi Khatchadourian’s profile of Julian Assange for The New Yorker back in June—before the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs dumps—is still the definitive read on the WikiLeaks founder. And it may always be. Since releasing the Iraq War Logs at 5 p.m. Friday, EST, Assange has been back in the headlines and back on TV screens. At a press conference...

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10. June 8, 2011 01:15 PM

    Times’s Jill Abramson: Dog Nut, Norse Deity

    The profiles are rolling in

    By Joel Meares

    Almost a week after The New York Times announced that executive editor Bill Keller was stepping down and Jill Abramson was stepping up, the inevitable profiles are beginning to trickle through. (She really likes dogs.) Today, The Guardian, The New York Observer, and WWD each offer their takes on the Times’s new head honcho. Which True Manhattan Story you...

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11. March 30, 2011 12:29 PM

    Times’s Solid Report on Failed Mortgage Rescue Programs

    An economic calamity and its human faces

    By Joel Meares

    A must-read A1 story in The New York Times today digs into the multi-level failings of President Obama’s foreclosure rescue plans. As the country preps for a budget slice-and-dice that will target discretionary spending—or a government shutdown in lieu of that—Michael Powell and Andrew Martin’s piece, “Foreclosure Aid Fell Short, and Is Fading,” shows the importance of government spending under...

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12. March 22, 2011 02:59 PM

    WaPo and Times Go Softly, Softly with Barbour

    Similar profiles tell similar tales

    By Joel Meares

    Pity poor Tim Pawlenty. The day after the former Minnesota governor made a shallow splash announcing his presidential exploratory committee, rival Haley Barbour picked up some very enviable real estate in the east coast’s political big two: The New York Times and The Washington Post. In what’s something of a coup for Barbour—whose name recognition beyond Mississippi is probably...

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13. November 10, 2010 03:32 PM

    A Times Story Bodes Ill for the Washington Post

    An investigation shows how Kaplan used predatory tactics to get students and government money

    By Ryan Chittum

    The for-profit college business just looks worse and worse, and a New York Times investigation this morning paints a disturbing picture of what's going on at The Washington Post Company's cash cow, Kaplan. The Times relies on four whistleblower suits filed by ex-employees, but it backs them up with interviews with dozens of current and former Kaplan workers, as well...

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14. November 9, 2010 06:11 PM

    Audit Notes: Foreclosure Scandal, Gold Still Not a Record, Facebook Ads

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Washington Post drops this eye-raising info from a Long Island judge who's not happy with the banks' actions in the foreclosure scandal: It is not the only case that has big banks worried. Spinner and some of (his) colleagues in the New York City area estimate they are dismissing 20 to 50 percent of foreclosure cases on the basis...

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15. 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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16. January 18, 2011 10:24 AM

    D.C.’s Early Risers on the Import of Info

    But Times report lacking a lot of its own

    By Joel Meares

    A piece on page A14 of this morning’s Times details the pre-dawn “information wars” raging every morning in Washington D.C.—or, less interestingly put, the activities of twenty-somethings who wake up before 6 a.m. to summarize the news for their bosses. The title is a brave one considering the current debate: “Where News Is Power, a Fight to Be Well-Armed.” For...

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17. January 27, 2011 08:50 AM

    Demand Media IPO Valued Higher Than The NYT

    Here’s why we care

    By Lauren Kirchner

    Demand Media’s stock made a grand entrance on Wall Street on Wednesday, jumping 37 percent on its first day of trading, paidContent reports. Within hours, a piece on CNN.com had noted that Demand’s valuation by investors—$1.5 billion, with a “b”—was higher than The New York Times Company. The horror! So why should we care about a “content farm” that produces...

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18. July 31, 2012 03:00 PM

    Diet wars turn family feud

    Why the Times's Gina Kolata has it out for the Times's Gary Taubes

    By Paul Scott

    Gary Taubes is one of the most interesting health writers in the country. He is an exhaustive researcher, an astute critic of experimental methodology, a historian of science and influential polemicist. But he can’t catch a break from Gina Kolata. This is awkward, because they both write for the same paper. That’s one conclusion to be drawn after a discordant...

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19. July 30, 2012 12:06 PM

    Digital goes first at the FT (Updated)

    The Financial Times now has more digital subscribers than print ones; running the numbers

    By Dean Starkman

    Like them or not, newspaper paywalls continue better-than-expected performances, the latest good (for some of us) news coming from The New York Times Company and Pearson’s Financial Times. Digital subscribers to The New York Times and its sister paper, The International Herald Tribune surpassed the half-million mark, way ahead of the most optimistic projections. At 509,000, it’s up 12 percent...

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20. November 15, 2012 03:10 PM

    Factchecking the ‘gifts’ theory of politics

    LAT, NYT break news on Mitt Romney's remarks—and also offer a skeptical look

    By Greg Marx

    The big electoral politics story of the day (well, ok, of late Wednesday) is the news that Mitt Romney, on a phone call with contributors to his campaign, attributed his loss to the Obama administration’s strategy of giving “gifts” to groups of voters. As Maeve Reston of the Los Angeles Times tells it: "The Obama campaign was following the old...

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